Wayne Rooney to be stripped of his captaincy under Gareth southgate

Wayne Rooney to be stripped of England captaincy once Gareth Southgate is named manager

Wayne Rooney will reportedly have the England captaincy removed from him when Gareth Southgate is announced as manager at the end of the month. 
The 31-year-old forward was pictured looking worse for wear at a wedding while on international duty with the Three Lions earlier this week.
It’s understood Rooney went against Southgate by returning to the wedding party after the interim boss told him to go back to bed.

The Sun suggest the Manchester United skipper has apologised to Southgate but the 46-year-old’s plans to replace him are already set in stone.
England’s all-time record goalscorer now risks being totally removed from the national set-up after managing 119 caps and 53 goals.

Gareth Southgate has plans to remove Wayne Rooney as captain (Picture: Getty)

Following the circulation of the photographs, FA chief executive Martin Glenn said: ‘We’re getting a proper investigation of what actually went on – “were there other FA staff involved – yes or no?” – and we’re doing a review of it obviously.

‘It’s disappointing. I think it’s appropriate he apologised because it doesn’t set a great tone for the England captain but, that said, I don’t want to over-dramatise it either.’
‘We’re talking to anyone who was there on Saturday night to find out if anyone from the backroom staff was involved and then we’ll take a view, but we don’t know what the facts are yet.

‘I think it’d be ‘why on earth are you doing that given there is an understanding, a team agreement around alcohol consumption during camps?’, so there would be questions asked for sure.’
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