Wayne Rooney photos: England players treated Gareth Southgate like a supply teacher when they rolled into the hotel at 5am after a night out

THERE are lessons to be learned from Wayne Rooney’s latest brush with the booze.
From here, Gareth Southgate must show strong leadership.

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England’s players trampled all over him when the stampede began to board the taxis into London on Saturday.

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It will not take long to find them when the FA trawl through the CCTV footage of them leaving their base at The Grove Hotel.

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Southgate gave the players a night off. They pulled an all-nighter. To leave The Grove under the radar, to arrange the short trip to a London nightclub, would have taken a bit of organising.
Word out of the England camp is they sheepishly returned to The Grove about the same time Rooney finally went to bed at 5am.

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Two hours later Southgate was up and about having breakfast, planning the afternoon training session for the players with his coaching staff.
By then, his authority had been undermined.
England’s players treated the country’s interim head coach like a supply teacher.