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Wayne Rooney has admitted he as soon as lashed out at his former Manchester United team-mate Gary Neville when he was England assistant supervisor in 2016.
England had been in camp for Euro 2016 in France and an amusing system was applied to label the worst participant in coaching on any given day.
Writing in his column many timesRooney mentioned: 'Coaching was good in 2016. I did pounce on Neville although.
'Borrowing an concept from rugby, we had a stuffed lion that was given to the worst participant throughout apply, and that participant needed to take the lion out – the photographers would get the image and the general public would know who it was.
'It was nice enjoyable, increase the aggressive spirit, however at some point Neville satisfied everybody to vote for me.
Wayne Rooney (proper) has admitted he as soon as lashed out at Gary Neville (left) throughout England coaching
'A sew up! I acquired hammered on that. I used to be unhealthy at 'the field' (our model of the rondo), however the worst general? Completely not.'
Rooney additionally tried to justify the Three Lions' shock defeat to Iceland.
'Iceland? Everybody forgets that they’d a incredible qualifying marketing campaign, they did nicely within the group stage, and so they got here into the round-of-16 match in opposition to us in Good with a number of momentum.
'Again house, they had been being featured on the BBC. They didn't simply get off a fishing boat and placed on their sneakers.
Rooney and England crashed out of Euro Cup last-16 after shedding to Iceland
