{"id":74862,"date":"2025-08-18T06:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T06:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/74862\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T06:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T06:37:09","slug":"wayne-rooney-sol-campbell-didnt-speak-to-me-for-six-months-after-man-utd-arsenal-pizzagate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/74862\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayne Rooney: ‘Sol Campbell didn’t speak to me for six months after Man Utd-Arsenal Pizzagate’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wayne Rooney says his former England team-mate Sol Campbell went six months without speaking to him after a penalty incident between the pair in Manchester United’s 2-0 win against Arsenal during the 2004-05 season.<\/p>\n

Arsenal, coached by Arsene Wenger, had been Premier League Invincibles the previous season, but Sir Alex Ferguson’s United snapped their 49-game unbeaten league streak in an ill-tempered victory at Old Trafford. <\/p>\n

Ruud van Nistelrooy gave the home side the lead from the penalty spot, after Rooney went down inside the box under the challenge of Arsenal centre-back Campbell. <\/p>\n

Rooney, who had joined United from Everton earlier that summer, then sealed the victory in the 93rd minute – on his 19th birthday. <\/p>\n

After the game, a slice of pizza was thrown at Ferguson by then 17-year-old Arsenal midfielder Cesc Fabregas – a chaotic moment that would go on to be dubbed as the ‘Pizzagate’.<\/p>\n

“It was a big game for Arsenal. If they had won it, it was 50 games unbeaten for them,” said Rooney, speaking on his new BBC podcast The Wayne Rooney Show.<\/a><\/p>\n

“We beat them 2-0 and Campbell did not speak to me for over six months. <\/p>\n

“We met up [during international duty] and Sol won’t speak to me. Sometimes, I was with Sol and I’d say to him: ‘Come on man, we are playing for England here’.<\/p>\n

“But he wouldn’t speak to me because he felt I dived. He left his leg out and I think there was a small contact.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wayne Rooney says his former England team-mate Sol Campbell went six months without speaking to him after a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-74862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}