Whether that is payback for Ferguson’s ‘compassion’ or, more likely, time to make up for placing Manchester United in the eye of a storm is open to debate, but the manager insists he has no regrets over his decision to tackle Everton without his troubled talisman.
Rooney, who will pull on a United shirt for the first time on Tuesday night since recent allegations that he used prostitutes, appeared untroubled and light-hearted as he trained in front of the cameras at Carrington on Monday.
