# Wayne Rooney out of World Cup? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 29, 2006, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wayne-rooney-out-of-world-cup/354736 "2006-04-29T13:52:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2006, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wayne-rooney-out-of-world-cup/354736/1 "2006-04-29T13:52:29Z")
Wayne Rooney was just stretchered off the field in the match against Chelsea. He doesn’t normally go down and he looked to be in a lot of pain. John Terry and Joe Cole were also injured in the match. It doesn’t look good for Rooney and England. ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2006, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wayne-rooney-out-of-world-cup/354736/2 "2006-04-29T15:27:17Z")
Mourinho says that somebody from Man U told him that it wasn’t too bad and Rooney would be OK for Germany. Fergie was more circumspect. I’m off to sacrifice a goat to the football gods, or whatever it takes to get the boy fit. ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2006, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wayne-rooney-out-of-world-cup/354736/3 "2006-04-29T22:01:44Z")
Shit. Fractured big toe. There’s no way he’s going to recover in six weeks, and there goes whatever chance England had, he’s really that important to us. Perhaps it’s time players stopped wearing paper-thin boots, because there seem to be an awful lot of metatarsal injuries these days. ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2006, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wayne-rooney-out-of-world-cup/354736/4 "2006-04-29T22:08:34Z")
Sorry, it’s apparently the fourth metatarsal (toe) not the big one. Still gonna hurt, though. ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2006, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wayne-rooney-out-of-world-cup/354736/5 "2006-04-29T22:12:30Z")
Damn. There go our World Cup chances for another year… Of course, as an Arsenal fan, I don’t really care too much at the moment. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2006, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wayne-rooney-out-of-world-cup/354736/6 "2006-04-30T15:14:36Z")
Eh, it’s a blow, but while he’s a dangerous player he wouldn’t have won - or lost - a game on his own. It does leave us very short of decent match-fit strikers, but I still think we’ll see the usual England pattern at the World Cup: tedious draw, heroic win, narrow defeat, then knocked out via a single set-piece or on penalties in the later stages. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2006, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wayne-rooney-out-of-world-cup/354736/7 "2006-05-01T02:40:16Z")
I did find it interesting that there was no foul called on the play and it almost appeared the referee was thinking Rooney was trying to draw a PK. I’m not an England fan, per se, but would prefer that all the best players are available for the cup and this will be a loss. Still, some reports I read tonight say he might be back after the first two group matches, which England really should win anyway, so maybe it’s not the worst possible scenario.