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Fri 10 Oct 2009Portugal loss still rankles Rooney
SOCCER NEWS:WAYNE ROONEY is hoping that Portugal and his former team-mate Cristiano Ronaldo do not qualify for next year’s World Cup. The England forward was sent off when the countries met in 2006 and the fallout from that incident has not been forgotten by Rooney.
England were beaten in that quarter-final and Portugal also knocked them out at the same stage of Euro 2004.
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