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Wayne Rooney's conduct subject of a 'proper investigation' by the FA

The Football Association is conducting a "proper investigation" to establish what exactly England captain Wayne Rooney and any of its staff did on Saturday night.

Rooney has "unreservedly" apologised to interim England manager Gareth Southgate, the Football Association and football supporters in general following the emergence of "inappropriate" images from The Grove hotel.

It is alleged Rooney dropped in on a wedding party, with The Sun newspaper printing a photo appearing to show the Manchester United forward, wearing an England training top, looking the worse for wear.

The FA has confirmed that overnight free time, which has been in place for a number of years, will now be reviewed.

The allegations surrounding Rooney include the suggestion that members of England's backroom staff were with him at the wedding party.

Football Association chief executive Martin Glenn told Sky Sports News HQ on Thursday: "We're getting a proper investigation of what actually went on -- 'were there other FA staff involved -- yes or no?' -- and we're doing a review of it obviously.

"It's disappointing. I think it's appropriate he apologised because it doesn't set a great tone for the England captain but, that said, I don't want to over-dramatise it either."

Glenn added: "We're talking to anyone who was there on Saturday night to find out if anyone from the backroom staff was involved and then we'll take a view, but we don't know what the facts are yet."

"I think it'd be 'why on earth are you doing that given there is an understanding, a team agreement around alcohol consumption during camps?', so there would be questions asked for sure."

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