Rooney despatched off as Plymouth compile unhurried winner

Plymouth Argyle head coach Wayne Rooney used to be despatched off sometime of his side’s Championship match against Blackburn Rovers.

The former Manchester United and England ahead used to be dismissed eight times sometime of his infamous taking part in occupation and has now been crimson-carded as a coach, too.

Rooney, who took over the membership for the 2024-25 season, used to be despatched off after kicking a bottle into the team as his frustration boiled over following Blackburn’s equalising fair.

Then as soon as more, his gamers handled the setback properly and answered to the fallout by scoring a 97th-minute winner by technique of Morgan Whittaker.

Rooney used to be no longer allowed to talk over with the media postmatch which skill that of his sending off nonetheless his assistant Pete Shuttleworth stepped in.

“He is composed passionate — all of us watched him play for plenty of years and all of us know that passion is what drives him and he is been excellent down here,” Shuttleworth talked about.

“I’ve considered him esteem that – he has composed got that passion on the touchline. He likes to be aloof and calculated as soon as in a while and spy the sport, and that’s his administration vogue. You are by no formula going to seize that [passion] out of Wayne.

“We were disillusioned a detestable wasn’t given on Ryan Hardie – and Wayne reacted to that with passion. I make no longer know what the true sending-off used to be for or what they’ll accredit it to nonetheless he apt reacted in that attain.”

Argyle beget now obtained three residence video games in a row to leave them 14th in the Championship table.