{"id":405078,"date":"2011-04-28T15:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T15:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/28\/wayne-rooney-fears-he-is-a-victim-of-newspaper-phone-hacking-scandal\/"},"modified":"2011-04-28T15:44:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T15:44:00","slug":"wayne-rooney-fears-he-is-a-victim-of-newspaper-phone-hacking-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/28\/wayne-rooney-fears-he-is-a-victim-of-newspaper-phone-hacking-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayne Rooney fears he is a victim of newspaper phone-hacking scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Simon Sinclair<\/h3>\n<h4>28 Apr 2011 16:44:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"71.0656041512\">\n<div readability=\"13.701754386\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wayne Rooney, Manchester United\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/c0156930128103_news.jpg.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Wayne Rooney, Manchester United<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span id=\"divAdnetKeyword\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/england\/1681\/wayne-rooney\">Wayne Rooney<\/a> has revealed via Twitter that he has been the victim of apparent phone hacking after Scotland Yard detectives visited his home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Manchester United striker tweeted: \u201cScotland Yard detectives came to see me earlier and showed me some documents, looks like a newspaper have hacked into my phone #Bigsurprise&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The 25-year-old becomes the latest high-profile public figure to have been an alleged victim of phone hacking following people such as Andy Gray and actress Sienna Miller.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The investigation centres on the use of technology to gain information from calls and messages from the victim\u2019s phone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Metropolitan Police are now investigating the case further and <em>The Guardian<\/em> reports that Rooney and agent Paul Stretford are considering whether to take action against the perpetrators.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The news comes just days after United\u2019s triumph in the first leg of their Champions League semi-final clash with Schalke when Rooney was at his fluent best, setting up the first goal and scoring the second in a 2-0 victory in Germany.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/3b4e10aebeacon.dll_160.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/04\/28\/2462433\/wayne-rooney-fears-he-is-a-victim-of-newspaper-phone-hacking\" title=\"Wayne Rooney fears he is a victim of newspaper phone-hacking scandal\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wayne Rooney fears he is a victim of newspaper phone-hacking scandal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Simon Sinclair 28 Apr 2011 16:44:00 Wayne Rooney, Manchester United Related Links Teams Players Wayne Rooney has revealed via Twitter that he has been the victim of apparent phone hacking after Scotland Yard detectives visited his home. The Manchester United striker tweeted: \u201cScotland Yard detectives came to see me earlier and showed me some documents, looks like a newspaper have hacked into my phone #Bigsurprise&#8221;. The 25-year-old becomes the latest high-profile public figure to have been an alleged victim of phone hacking following people such as Andy Gray and actress Sienna Miller. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":405079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-405078","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Wayne Rooney fears he is a victim of newspaper phone-hacking scandal - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/28\/wayne-rooney-fears-he-is-a-victim-of-newspaper-phone-hacking-scandal\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Wayne Rooney fears he is a victim of newspaper phone-hacking scandal - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Simon Sinclair 28 Apr 2011 16:44:00 Wayne Rooney, Manchester United Related Links Teams Players Wayne Rooney has revealed via Twitter that he has been the victim of apparent phone hacking after Scotland Yard detectives visited his home. 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