We all know that Wayne Rooney is a good footballer. We also know that he's not going to be the first pick on your Trivial Pursuit team. His foul language into the TV camera last weekend was pretty inexcusable, but a ban for 2 games - is it really fair? I'll be the first to admit that Iam not a Manchester United fan, but in all honesty they are the best team in England and are going to win the Premier League at a canter. Rooney's ban smacks of the FA trying to make the run-in to the 2010-11 season moreinteresting. Manchester United are 7 points clear and in little danger of not winning the championship, but TV revenue rules in football nowadays, so the race has to go to the final day in order to keep the public's insatiable appetite for the game fueled.
Had Glenn Murray, Brighton and Hove Albion's top-scorer done the same thing as Rooney, would he have received a two match ban? Ther FA will claim that he would, but I dount that they would have batted an eyelid. Much as I hate to say it but the FA are targetting the Red Devils because of their utter dominance of English football this season. The club haven't helped themselves by having a manager who slates every referee of a game that United don't win, but he's always done that, although perhaps not to the extreme that he has done this season.
The FA are a pathetic organisation whose sole aim is to make as much money from the game as is humanly possible. And they are not alone, with UEFA and FIFA equally as money-driven, but to try to keep public interest in a competition by banning a player is a new low. Don't get me wrong, Rooney shouldn't have done what he did, but the way it's been dealt with is nothing short of corrupt.
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