Four years after being sent off as England bowed out of the World Cup, Wayne Rooney and his short temper are again became the talk of the world cup 2010.
It actually started four days before England opens its World Cup campaign against the United States its first match at soccer's biggest tournament since losing in the 2006 quarter-finals to Portugal after Rooney was sent off for stamping on Ricardo Carvalho.
"You try to make his day difficult and if a guy has as much fire as he has then maybe those kind of things come out," said U.S. defender Jay DeMerit, who is also the captain at Watford. "It's not necessarily something you try to do because then you're thinking of the wrong things when it comes to on-the-field activities".
"It's not about kicking him when no one is looking or using tactics to try to wind him up ... If he brings that stuff out in the way we play against him then that's good."
"He's a player who gives it all on the pitch he's so committed," Holden said at the U.S. , near Pretoria. "I think sometimes he wants to win so badly that he goes into challenges that he thinks he can win."
In the English press, the Sun questioned whether he could be a "foul-mouthed World Cup liability," while the Daily Mail's headline was "Rooney loses plot."
The English media are trying their best to conscious Roonie to control his temper. But can roonie do that?