Wayne Rooney didn’t maintain again after being requested about Sergio Aguero’s iconic title-winning objective.
The previous Manchester United striker joined the panel for the newest episode of The Overlap Fan Debate, and one ballsy Manchester Metropolis fan determined to ask concerning the objective which is clearly nonetheless a sore topic for Rooney.
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Metropolis famously snatched the title away from their bitter rivals due to Aguero’s stoppage-time winner in opposition to QPR.
Rooney and his United teammates had thought they might get their palms on the trophy after his objective was sufficient to beat Sunderland earlier than the title was all of the sudden snatched away from their grasp.
The supporter requested: “What about 2012, Wayne, was {that a} good one? Aguero objective mate.”
His query was met with a stern expression and silence of Rooney, a lot to the amusement of these within the room.
Jamie Carragher joined the viewers in bursting out laughing earlier than Rooney gave his reply.
In response, he defined: “Clearly that was a tricky one however once more didn’t Paddy Kenny flip the ball in, two objectives, QPR knew they have been secure.
“Metropolis get it to 2-2, then they simply boot the ball again to them. They’d (Djibril) Cisse on the pitch, Joey Barton received despatched off for performing silly.”
Carragher then jokingly requested: “So, you’ve got received over it?”
Rooney produced one other hilarious reply as he shrugged and mentioned: “That ought to have been regarded into.”
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This prompted Carragher to quip: “It’s not simply 115 now it’s 116. That’s the headline, ‘Wayne Rooney desires Manchester Metropolis regarded into for the QPR sport’.”
Metropolis are at present awaiting the end result of their authorized case having been charged with 115 breaches of the Premier League’s Monetary Truthful Play guidelines.
In the meantime, Aguero’s heroics in 2012 denied Rooney what would have been his fifth league title on the time.
Roberto Mancini’s aspect had trailed relegation-threatened QPR heading into stoppage time.
Nevertheless, objectives from Edin Dzeko and Aguero in the course of the extra interval secured one of the crucial dramatic title victories in English soccer historical past.
It was the primary of Metropolis’s eight Premier League crowns and ended a 44-year await a league title.
Rooney needed to wait one other season for his fifth triumph with United as they recovered to win the title in Sir Alex Ferguson’s ultimate season.
Though it was the final time the previous Purple Devils captain received the Premier League, it adopted earlier victories in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2011.