Wayne Rooney has thrown a wobbly again, according to the Sunday Times.

The paper says the player has threatened to refuse the Football Association permission to use his image in England-related marketing. The move is in protest against a three match ban imposed by the FA for his sending off in a pre-season friendly game against Porto.

My first reaction was: the prat’s at it again. Not content with helping to kill England’s World Cup hopes with his behaviour, Rooney now wants to decide his own punishment. (Presumably a pat on the back rather than a ban.) But justice does require consistency. And it seems that Rooney’s punishment is far more severe than that in similar cases. Rooney may have a point – even if he has made it in a characteristically blunt way.