Wayne Rooney has been warned he must keep the lid on his emotions or risk a re-run of the red card misery he endured at the last World Cup.
Rooney’s volatility was on display again in England’s final warm-up match on Monday, a 3-0 win over local club Platinum Stars in which he was booked for dissent and was guilty of several challenges that could kindly be described as over enthusiastic.

England captain Rio Ferdinand was ruled out of the World Cup on Friday after injuring his knee in the team’s first full training session in South Africa. The 31-year-old center back sustained ligament damage to his left knee while defending against striker Emile Heskey at England’s training ground near Rustenburg a week before England’s opener against the United States in this northern South African city on June 12.