Rooney breaks wrist of fan, 9

Wayne Rooney has apologised to a 9-year-old football fan after he fired a shot into the crowd which broke the youngster’s wrist.

Jamie Thomas was watching Manchester United for the first time on Sunday when the shot from the striker caught his arm.

Rooney used Twitter to say sorry to the schoolboy: “I want to apologise to Jamie Thomas. I have arranged for a letter and a signed shirt to be sent to his home address.”

Jamie’s father Andy said the injury happened when his son tried to block the shot in the warm-up before Man United’s game with Wolves at the Molineux.

Thomas said Rooney and Javier Hernandez were taking shots when Rooney missed one and it came towards Jamie. He put out his hands to stop it hitting him and it broke his wrist.