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A leading foot surgeon has poured scorn on claims that Manchester United ace Wayne Rooney will be fit to participate in England's opening World Cup match.
Rooney fractured a metatarsal against Chelsea in April, and it was initially thought he would be out for at least the enitre group stage of the tournament.
Reports emerged recently that the 20-year-old had made a remarkable recovery, but surgeon Ian Winson told the Star on Sunday that such a recovery was highly unlikely:
"Rooney has a fracture, not a stress fracture. That takes time to heal, and he won't be ready for the start of the World Cup. "To come back in six weeks is not reasonable. Gary Neville took 21 weeks to recover from a similar injury. "If the injury's not ready, he won't be able to function, he just won't be able to play."
The Daily Mirror are reporting: ROO'S STILL GOT A LONG WAY TO GO
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PICTURES of Wayne Rooney kicking a football in training should not be taken as proof that he will be ready for the World Cup finals.
The FA already know that the Manchester United star will not be fit to take any part in England's three Group B matches.
Rooney faces D-Day on Wednesday, when medical experts from the FA and United will meet at a Manchester clinic to assess his latest scan. A decision on whether Rooney can rejoin the England squad in Germany will be made immediately.
But while supervised running and jumping is not a problem for the 20-year-old striker, Wednesday's scan will reveal whether Rooney's fractured metatarsal has healed sufficiently to allow the player to begin contact training.
Contact training, with and without a ball, is totally off the comeback agenda for the moment.
Sven Goran Eriksson knows the earliest England can expect Rooney to return will be for the first knock-out match on the weekend of June 24-25.
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Norman Whiteside, the youngest player to appear in a World Cup finals, has urged England not to gamble on Rooney.
The Manchester United legend, who was forced to retire at the age of 26, is now a qualified podiatrist working in chambers in the city's St John's Street district and an expert on lower limb injuries.
Whiteside said: "England will be taking a hell of a risk if they play him before he is completely recovered.
"If someone recovering from a broken metatarsal comes back when they are only 95 per cent right, the chances are they will suffer a recurrence of the injury or pick up another injury. If there is a weakness in the bone and you are playing a high-impact sport you are running the risk of breaking it again.
What a saga these metatarsals are becoming: Knives out in the battle of wounded foot
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Sir Alex Ferguson has slammed down the phone on Sven-Goran Eriksson once already this week and England's coach can brace himself for another tirade when the news gets back to Manchester United of his plans for Wayne Rooney. A day of fierce mudslinging and finger-pointing concluded here last night with Eriksson apparently determined to defy Ferguson by playing the forward in the group stage and, most worryingly for Rooney, the very real danger that he may have damaged his own relationship with his club manager.
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Publicly, Eriksson said only that Rooney's x-rays had shown his broken metatarsal had fully healed and that, out of courtesy, United could send their medical staff over to Germany to take a second opinion once he had decided the player was sufficiently fit to make his comeback. Arrangements have also been made to unbolt the gates of their training ground if United want to send in Professor Angus Wallace, the independent specialist who oversaw Wednesday's scans in Manchester and reported back that Rooney should wait until after the group stages.
Foot specialist slams Rooney recovery talk
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