Brooking: Wayne got his just desserts

FA director of football development Trevor Brooking believes his organisation’s decision to suspend Wayne Rooney for two matches for swearing has almost universal support across football.

Rooney missed Saturday’s Barclays win over Fulham and will also have to sit out next Saturday’s FA Cup semi-final against Manchester City at Wembley after he swore into a TV camera during his side’s 4-2 win at West Ham last weekend.

Brooking said: “I think that was pretty venomous, straight into a camera at lunchtime on a Saturday, and at the time I thought ‘am I being old-fashioned about it?’ but during the week I have had quite a few people come up to me and almost unanimously everyone has said the FA got that right.