The Football Association could not have retrospectively punished Wayne Rooney for his alleged elbow on Wigan’s James McCarthy, a top official has confirmed.
Referee Mark Clattenburg awarded a free-kick to Wigan after the incident but has been criticised since for not even issuing Rooney with a yellow card.
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