The highest-profile British player of the past decade, Wayne Rooney has often found himself embroiled in controversy, both on and off the pitch, and while a lot of the time he comes across like a down-to-earth family man, there are other incidents that leave you scratching your head and questioning his position as a role model.
On the pitch, Rooney’s career has largely been blemish-free in comparison to some of his peers, but he’s still been involved in more than one unsavoury situation. He’s been sent off twice while representing England and while you can almost excuse his red card in the 2006 World Cup against Portugal; his second – brandished for an incident that saw him lash out at a Montenegrin player for no good reason – was ridiculous and saw him banned for the first two games of Euro 2012.
