An FA dinner to honour Wayne Rooney’s international career is in doubt after the 33-year-old was arrested in the US last month.
FA chiefs will meet Rooney’s representatives this week following an incident of “public swearing and intoxication” on December 16.
A statement released on Rooney’s behalf claimed the Washington striker had taken “a prescribed amount of sleeping tablets mixed with some alcohol consumption” on a flight to the US from Saudi Arabia and was “consequently disorientated on arrival” at Dulles Airport.
Rooney set off a security door alarm and subsequently paid a $25 fine. The FA have taken a dim view of the latest controversy to blight Rooney’s career and are reviewing whether to uphold an agreement struck last year as part of his international farewell that a Wembley dinner would be held in his honour.
