Writing today in the Sunday Times, Derby County player-coach Wayne Rooney has been given a massive platform to write a diatribe against Boris Johnson over his handling of the Corona Virus. The Sunday Times is of course part of the Rupert Murdoch Empire which also owns the Sun that is boycotted in Liverpool over the Hillsborough disaster:

Rooney wrote:

At Derby, we sat at training on Thursday waiting for Boris Johnson to speak. People were anxious. We’d heard in the morning that three Leicester City players had shown symptoms of coronavirus.

We were going to be playing at Millwall, who last weekend played Nottingham Forest, whose owner [Evangelos Marinakis] tested positive for the virus. Our worry was not ourselves — we’re strong enough to get over it — but our families, our friends, everyone we come into contact with.

We were already thinking twice about carrying on and I know from friends throughout the game that we weren’t alone. I don’t think anyone in football wanted to play. Johnson didn’t speak until 5pm. By that time I was back in the house, waiting for him to come on.

One of the things I wanted to know about was the schools. I’ve got four young kids. He said the schools are fine, let’s carry on, and what he said about sports was, ‘We’ll make a decision on it later.’

You just thought, ‘He’s dodged it, he’s left the FA and Premier League to make the decision.’ It felt baffling that with the three Leicester players having symptoms we were still planning to go ahead with games.

Then on Thursday night it came out that Arteta had the virus and all of a sudden the Premier League announced an emergency meeting the next morning.

What was the difference? Is it that Arteta was a bigger name?

It felt typical of the way things are done in football. That Leicester aren’t a big enough team to cause any chaos, it’s fine, we carry on.

Then as soon as one of the bigger clubs — Arsenal — are affected, we finally make a decision. It felt like we were trying to limp along, keep football going, instead of getting everyone prepared for what’s going to come.

 

Analysis:

We are once again reaching peak clown world with Wayne Rooney now giving his advice on CoronaVirus and being held up as some kind of expert by the MSM. Even the BBC are talking about this and saying we should be listening to him. The behaviour of the media in all this, who are now crowing over their massive viewing numbers, sees another nail in their coffins.

Piers Morgan is yet another figure who is behaving hysterically at every opportunity just to try and say he is right. Just like the false accusations about Brexit the MSM are once again scaring people based on conjecture. Surely enough is enough after this?