The England football team are indeed no strangers to controversy, in particular Wayne Rooney.
Rooney 24, is without doubt the most technically gifted footballer of his generation, yet the Manchester United striker has somehow managed to form a wedge between himself and the public since his outburst during the world cup, so cheating on his wife with an average £1000 a night hooker has hardly helped burn those bridges.
Like Paul Gascoigne before him, Rooney is a genius on the pitch, but consistently finds himself on the front pages of the tabloids for all the wrong reasons.
England footballers are human after all, and like most immortals will make mistakes, with that in mind, should we judge our players by their performances on or off the pitch?
Unfortunately, we live in a blame culture, the media hailed Rooney as the countries savior before South Africa, now he is public enemy number 1, with a constant build them up, kick down attitude our national team have absolutely no chance of ever winning a major tournament.
Should our sportsmen be entitled to constraining orders to keep them off the front pages and concentrate on what they are paid to do?
