Ever-maturing Rooney rises above the rot

SO what was your gut reaction when you heard the England team hotel had been bugged last week?

Bewilderment at the lengths to which their own people will go in a bid to screw up England’s World Cup preparations? Astonishment at the ineptitude which would allow such a security lapse to occur? Suspicion that the hand of the dreaded meeja must be in there somewhere? Sympathy for the victims who, however willingly high profile they might be, surely deserve to have some basic measure of privacy respected?

Of course not. If you’re anything like me, I’ll bet your very first thought was: damn, why didn’t someone think of that in Saipan?