{"id":10185,"date":"2026-01-26T06:10:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T06:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wayne-rooney-hits-back-at-nfl-legend-tom-bradys-work-ethic-criticism\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T06:10:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T06:10:21","slug":"wayne-rooney-hits-back-at-nfl-legend-tom-bradys-work-ethic-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wayne-rooney-hits-back-at-nfl-legend-tom-bradys-work-ethic-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayne Rooney hits back at NFL legend Tom Brady\u2019s \u2018work ethic\u2019 criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"style_k8mr7b-o_O-style_uhlm2\"\/>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_z4kqwb-o_O-style_1tcxgp3-o_O-style_1pinbx1-o_O-style_48hmcm\" data-mm-id=\"_qxtj1hsn8\"><strong>Wayne Rooney and Tom Brady\u2019s unexpected feud has taken a fresh, public turn. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_z4kqwb-o_O-style_1tcxgp3-o_O-style_1pinbx1-o_O-style_48hmcm\" data-mm-id=\"_lemz1bn2k\">The spat traces back to a comment made by Brady, a minority owner at Birmingham City, about Rooney, the club&#8217;s former head coach, in the Amazon Prime documentary <em>Built in Birmingham: Brady &amp; the Blues<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_z4kqwb-o_O-style_1tcxgp3-o_O-style_1pinbx1-o_O-style_48hmcm\" data-mm-id=\"_hra0irn2e\">\u201cI\u2019m a little worried about our head coach&#8217;s work ethic,\u201d Brady said following a visit to the club&#8217;s training ground in November 2023. \u201cI mean, I don\u2019t know, I don&#8217;t have great instincts on that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_z4kqwb-o_O-style_1tcxgp3-o_O-style_1pinbx1-o_O-style_48hmcm\" data-mm-id=\"_xiaxp0ldf\">Rooney, who was sacked by Birmingham in January 2024 after just 83 days in charge, has now hit back at Brady in his new podcast, <em>The Wayne Rooney Show<\/em>, which airs twice weekly on BBC Sounds, YouTube, and BBC iPlayer.<\/p>\n<figure data-mm-id=\"_gqgflwbag\" class=\"style_11gw3bn-o_O-style_48hmcm\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udde3\ufe0f Tom Brady on Wayne Rooney at Birmingham: \u201cI\u2019m a little bit worried about our head coach\u2019s work ethic.\u201d \ud83d\ude2c<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfa5 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/primevideosport?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@primevideosport<\/a> <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OgY3aGk3Ru\">pic.twitter.com\/OgY3aGk3Ru<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Football Tweet \u26bd\uea00 (@Football__Tweet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Football__Tweet\/status\/1951240038181683507?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 1, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_z4kqwb-o_O-style_1tcxgp3-o_O-style_1pinbx1-o_O-style_48hmcm\" data-mm-id=\"_8ctt1zvwb\">Reflecting on Brady\u2019s remarks, Rooney said he was \u201creally disappointed with the comment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_z4kqwb-o_O-style_1tcxgp3-o_O-style_1pinbx1-o_O-style_48hmcm\" data-mm-id=\"_5hqgbgrhm\">\u201cI think Tom came in once, which was the day before a game where the days are a little bit lighter anyway, and I don&#8217;t think he really understood football that well,\u201d the former England captain explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_z4kqwb-o_O-style_1tcxgp3-o_O-style_1pinbx1-o_O-style_48hmcm\" data-mm-id=\"_8obud72u4\">He added: \u201cFootball is not NFL \u2013 NFL works for three months a year. Players do need rest as well, so I think he&#8217;s very unfair, the way he&#8217;s come out and portrayed that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_z4kqwb-o_O-style_1tcxgp3-o_O-style_1pinbx1-o_O-style_48hmcm\" data-mm-id=\"_pm244u207\">Your move, Tom.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"tagStyle_1igopqi-o_O-style_1tcxgp3-o_O-style_1pinbx1-o_O-style_48hmcm\" data-mm-id=\"_14k03kqjx\">READ THE LATEST FASHION, CULTURE AND LIFESTYLE CONTENT FROM 90MIN<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wayne Rooney and Tom Brady\u2019s unexpected feud has taken a fresh, public turn. The spat traces back to a comment made by Brady, a minority owner at Birmingham City, about Rooney, the club&#8217;s former head coach, in the Amazon Prime documentary Built in Birmingham: Brady &amp; the Blues. \u201cI\u2019m a little worried about our head [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_daextam_enable_autolinks":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football-transfers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/01k2m2dbx65x0rcht6mn.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}