I hate footballers, they're just a bunch of overpaid oversexed twats.
Whilst not condoning what Rooney has (reportedly) done (he's an idiot if it's true), I don't think this is fair. You hear about the big stories about cheating - Terry, Cole, now Rooney etc.
But if you just take the Premier League, if each team has a 25 man squad, that's 500 men in just that league alone. Who yes, are, in general, paid far too much. But guys in the lower leagues aren't on super wages - are they all overpaid, oversexed prats too?
People generalise so widely about footballers being these horrible, rich, randy gits just out to get their end away, but forget the likes of Ryan Giggs, Van der Saar and Paul Scholes. Plus every other one who you never hear about outside of reports about the matches
Not every man is a cheat.
Again, I do agree that Rooney is a prat in this case, but I just want to make the point that it's not fair to tar every footballer with the same brush