‘The 2010 World Cup in South Africa was best! Average Rooney is drunk & should go farm’

Manchester United legend Wayne Rooney is under fire for claiming the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa ‘didn’t feel like World Cup at all.’

“We were travelling to the USA game, the first game. [While] we were driving to the game, it was pitch black, there’s no fans there,” he told The Overlap Podcast.

“The way you normally go to welcome the fans, [the atmosphere] it was nothing. It just didn’t feel like a World Cup at all,” he explained.

His sentiments have not gone down well with football loving fans in Mzansi. Have a look at their reactions as sampled by Afrik-Foot.

It was the best World Cup

It was more about Rooney’s personal problems and not the World Cup – Tlhape Edward

The England-Iran match from the 2010 World Cup was voted the most boring match in the history of World Cup matches, if I’m not mistaken. So yeah, maybe for the English team it was a bad World Cup, for the rest of us it was the best World Cup! – Pranesh Luckan 

Getting knocked out 4-1 by Germany in the group stages tends to leave a foul taste in the mouth – Lwando Luntu Keti 

The 2026 World Cup in South Africa was the last one where we could truly feel the energy and joy of the people. The others felt almost heartless –  Leandro Mathes

Didn’t Rooney enjoy it? The defenders probably didn’t even notice he was there – Emmanuel Kabaso

England underperformed in South Africa

Go check England’s stats during the 2010 World Cup, then you’ll understand that his comment has nothing to do with the South Africa 2010 World Cup setup – Pfarelo Madula Mitre 

Says a person who has almost relegated every team he coached – James Mnguni

Rooney is drunk. That was one of the best-selling World Cups in history – Mongezi Lwana

Well, he underperformed in that World Cup, then he comes out blaming South Africa, I mean, maybe he is mad because we keep knocking the rugby team out of the World Cups – Saint Germaine 

Rooney is just overrated. He has never done anything for England; now he is trying to be a coach but keeps failing. Just go and farm – Manuel Zitha