Wayne Rooney only has himself to blame for fitness doubt, says Sir Alex Ferguson

By Mark Ogden Published: 10:30PM GMT 05 March 2010

Action man: Wayne Rooney"s unrestrained might have got the improved of him after he aggravated a knee damage personification roughly a full diversion for England at Wembley Photo: ACTION IMAGES

Rooney is a disbelief for Manchester United"s Premier League outing to Molineux carrying played for 86 mins of England"s 3-1 feat in the accessible opposite Egypt at Wembley.

Ferguson declared Rooney as a surrogate for last Sunday"s Carling Cup last opposite Aston Villa due to a slight knee injury, and had approaching the twenty-four year-old to miss England"s strife with the African champions.

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While the United physical education instructor insists he has no issue with England physical education instructor Fabio Capello over Rooney"s preference opposite Egypt, Ferguson admits he has been left "disappointed" by the player"s hostility to minimise his impasse in the fixture.

Ferguson said: "There were a little changes finished during the England diversion and I thought Rooney would be one of them. He went in to the diversion with a small injury, but there you are. It"s disappointing.

"Fabio has to collect his most appropriate group given a win was critical and I think England played the most appropriate I have seen them fool around for years. But I was unhappy some-more with Wayne. He didn"t come off, I couldn"t hold it, and right afar he"s a disbelief for the Wolves game.

"I don"t censure Fabio at all, but don"t dont think about he [Rooney] was not ostensible to be playing. That"s what Wayne told us on Sunday given he was feeling his knee. Then all of a sudden, people put an arm around his shoulder with England and he wants to play.

"I don"t think he should have played. His own unrestrained has caused it. He can"t contend "no" and that"s his problem."

Rooney has been concerned in each diversion for bar and nation given blank United"s Champions League outing to Wolfsburg on December 8, and with a complicated effort expected for the rest of the campaign, fears of the player pang from burnout have already been expressed.

Ferguson believes that Rooney is profitable the cost for dual games in 4 days on an harsh Wembley representation that the physical education instructor claims contributed to the injure leg tendon damage that has finished Michael Owen"s season.

He said: "Playing at Wembley, on that kind of representation for roughly an hour on Sunday and afterwards roughly the full 90 mins on the Wednesday, is far as well much.

"You saw the pitch. I thought a equine show had been on it by the time I went on it! Do you recollect when Arsenal played Swindon in the 1969 League Cup final? It wasn"t as bad as that, but it reminded me of a ploughed field. I couldn"t hold the players had essentially played on it and come by it.

"We"re going to have to consider Wayne given he played probably the full diversion for England. It"s tough to relieve people with his kind of enthusiasm. He can"t lay down, he can"t lay still and he is regularly on the move. Even in hotels, I watch him and he"s relocating from one list to another.

"When we"re afar in Europe, he"s on foot about, he"s regularly on the go all the time, so he"s got a nervous appetite that you don"t wish to take afar from him. But age does a little great things for you and, eventually, you contend to yourself "I can"t be worried with all this using about all the time", and you have to take a rest a little time."

If Rooney fails to infer his fitness, Dimitar Berbatov will be handed the shortcoming to glow United to the feat Ferguson believes is compulsory to keep a resurgent Arsenal at arm"s length in the pretension race.

Ferguson said: "Arsenal are usually 3 points at the back of Chelsea and dual points at the back of us and, on paper, they have the easiest run-in."

Mick McCarthy will not repeat his argumentative group preference opposite United. The Wolves physical education instructor was criticised for fielding a exceedingly enervated group at Old Trafford in December, when he complacent 10 players from the side that kick Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 days earlier.

"Whatever group I collect will come underneath scrutiny," he said. "But it is finished with and I don"t wish to speak about it. We will be going for it to try to win the game."