Former Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney has launched a scathing attack on the government and the football authorities over their handling of the coronavirus crisis.
English football has been rocked to the core by the outbreak of the virus with the next two weekends of action postponed. Fixtures across the Premier League and the EFL have been suspended until the start of April but the expectation is that an extension is on the cards, with experts warning the worst of the outbreak is yet to come.
And Rooney , in an interview with the Sunday Times , has accused the authorities of treating footballers like "guinea pigs" and says he would "never forgive" them if his family fell ill as a result of being forced to play matches. “Why did
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