Wayne Rooney’s injury was never as serious as the whole England public were led to believe, according to two independent specialist's from Nottingham’s Queen Medical Centre, with the Manchester United and England star's metatarsal injury having apparently healed weeks ago.

Professor's Angus Wallace and Chris Morgan, the two independent specialists from Nottingham’s Queen Medical Centre that looked into the Manchester United and England star's injury issued the following statement:

“We are able to confirm that this fracture was quite different from the typical metatarsal shaft fracture, but was a fracture involving the spongy bone at the base of the metatarsal.

“This bone heals approximately three times faster than the hard (cortical) bone of the metatarsal shaft. Wayne had discomfort in his foot for only five days and has now been pain-free for six weeks.”

Rooney was injured in Manchester United's Premiership clash against Chelsea in April, and was initially ruled-out for up to six weeks.

But this latest news means that Rooney would have been able to participate in England's World Cup warm-up matches against Hungary and Jamaica in May but, through missing these matches, Rooney isn't quite match-fit yet.

So the protracted debate over the whole injury has been a farce. It was strange that the public never saw an image of an x-ray of the injury, unlike Steven Gerrard, Danny Murphy and, most famously David Beckham, who all had x-rays of their injuries published in national newspapers.

Now that the truth of the injury has been revealed, fingers will be pointing at Sir Alex Ferguson and the Manchester united board, who were no doubt in full knowledge of this fact from the start, but yet were so unwilling to release the England superstar for the World Cup Finals in Germany. Why? – We have yet to see.

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