Wayne Rooney

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Football Daily · The Wayne Rooney Show: Clichy on Mbappe, Henderson & France in 2010 · 21 Jun 2026 podcast

Did Patrice win as captain, did he?

Well, at that time, obviously, I was playing with Patrice at that time at Man United and...

he was still quite young as well and Patrice was always outspoken and he'll speak his mind but sometimes I think you need probably a little bit of experience of calmness experience in that moment and and

If you're saying that in 2010, that Batiste should be captain over Thierry, then you probably say... Not sure.

I know probably you might want to say, but probably not in that moment.

that he was none of a manager you know what I mean you know make the players feel empowered and you know it's players decisions what's happening and if they have to step in they step in and especially if you've got egos in the dressing room which the French team will have the English team will have whatever team will have big egos in the dressing room and as a manager if you're

trying to be center stage, I think you're always going to have trouble.

We had a similar situation with England when Rio Ferdinand got banned over a mixed drug test.

And remember, I was 17 and we were in the squad and they banned him, never allowed him to get selected for England before he was found guilty or not guilty, whatever.

and then remember we were playing Turkey away and we needed a point to qualify for Euro 2004 and Guy Neville called everyone in and we had to vote to go on strike and every player voted to go on strike and I remember thinking

I want to play, man.

I want to play for England, mate.

Really, at that point, I didn't have a big enough voice to say this is wrong.

So we all voted, every player in there, voted to go on strike.

And then Guy Neville's gone, obviously, to the FA and told them,

And then eventually I think it's calmed down.

I think he's realised, you know, we don't play here, we're in trouble here.

I was someone who liked being around my teammates and I was energetic and I probably **** my teammates off at times because I was constantly wanting to do stuff and that.

But I felt it was where England is now as a team to where we was.

Like, for instance, every tournament we've been to, the players have gone out and played like nine holes of golf or, you know, you've relaxed and gone for food with each other and whatever.

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