By Andrew Warshaw
October 10 – England will discover on Thursday (October 13) how long they will be without Wayne Rooney at next summer’s European Championship finals.
UEFA’s disciplinary body will meet to discuss Rooney’s straight red card against Montenegro for petulantly kicking out at Miodrag Džudović.
Rooney faces a minimum one-match suspension in Poland and Ukraine but UEFA could decide to increase the sanction to as many as three matches.
“There are lots of possible sanctions going from a warning, to a big fine and three-game ban,” said a UEFA spokesman.
“This happens pretty often but depends on the situation and also on the past of the player – if it is a first red card or not.”
Rooney was also sent off in the World Cup quarter-final against Portugal in 2006 but referee Wolfgang Stark’s report on the latest incident is understood to have stated, possibly in Rooney’s favour, that he showed no dissent after being dismissed.
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