I'd have done the same to get him sent off - 20 years since Rooney's red card

According to BBC Sport, Wayne Rooney reflects on his red card from the two thousand six World Cup quarter-final against Portugal, twenty years on. In that match, Rooney was sent off in an incident that also involved his then-Manchester United teammate Cristiano Ronaldo. In a recent interview, Rooney says frankly that he would have done the same thing to get an opponent sent off—a candid perspective on the gamesmanship of that moment. The incident remains one of English football's most controversial World Cup memories.

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