Scott Brown slammed Shaun Rooney over his behaviour following the former St Johnstone man’s red card in Fleetwood Town’s defeat to League One rivals Sheffield Wednesday.
Rooney - a League Cup and Scottish Cup winner for the McDiarmid Park side - lost the plot as he confronted Owls gaffer Darren Moore and others on the Wednesday bench after being given his marching orders late on in the defeat at home to the Yorkshiremen with the full back having netted the opener in the match.
And Celtic legend and Cods boss Brown was unhappy with his reaction late in the game. The 37-year-old said: “Roons has let himself down. It’s not the sending off, it’s the manner of what happened afterwards and for me, that’s not the way I want my players to react. If you get sent off, you take it on the chin, sometimes you might clip somebody if they get in, that’s fine. But you take it on the chin. You don’t start world war three in the middle of the park and then with the fans chanting start to go for everybody else. It’s not for me, that. We’ll deal with that in-house and I’m sure he’ll get a ban as well. It’s not the way you should act on the pitch.”
Wednesday manager Moore said of the incident: “From his perspective in a game where he could have been the hero and scored the first goal, he turned into the villain in getting sent off. Once he got sent off, the game went away from them."
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