Lord, how we’d hate Rooney turning blue

WE doom-mongers already had enough to complain about this week before Wayne Rooney stuck his oar in, thank you very much.

The calamitous financial results which have prompted a protest march to be planned for the Spurs match; Liverpool escaping their Texan hell and potentially becoming a threat once more; City moving above us in the league and a large section of Old Trafford fans disgracing our tradition by booing the team off on Saturday.

All that would normally have filled this column today, together with some choice words about grim Fergie déjà vu in his daft substitutions costing us two points for the second time in a fortnight.