If you think about the human element to this it must be tough for him. He's been playing with Giggs (retired at 40) Scholes (retired at 36) Ronaldo (in his prime at 32) Carrick (Still at United at 36) I could on. Meanwhile he's 31, he's had to leave United because he was nowhere near good enough to get into the team anymore, he's playing for a mid-table club, he's retired from England because he'd be a bit part player. That has to be difficult to take. I'm not saying it's come as a massive surprise to him that he's not got the same pace at 31 as he did at 21 but it must of been a shock to him how much he's gone downhill.
It certainly came as a surprise to me I was one of the idiots who was telling people to wait and see and how with Mourinho coming in Rooney could a brilliant number 10 and he'd surprise us. Then I finally got the time to Old Trafford and I saw him playing against Swansea and it was he was running with an invisible backpack full on bricks on his back he was so obviously slower than the rest of the players on that pitch it was actually sad to watch.
