efended his manager against doping accusations on Friday after the manager was released on bail while Kenyan police investig

LONDON -- Wayne Rooney faced a highly unusual public rebuke from the England leadership on Thursday over his late-night revelry at the team hotel.The English Football Association believes Rooney wasnt living up to his responsibilities as captain of the national team after being pictured on Saturday night bleary-eyed at a wedding reception at the hotel.Rooneys future as captain was already under scrutiny, as he was no longer guaranteed of his starting spot for England or Manchester United.Although the 31-year-old striker was off-duty at the time of the hotel incident, the FAs unhappiness with the conduct of the teams figurehead could harm his prospects of retaining the armband.Its disappointing, FA chief executive Martin Glenn said outside a meeting of Premier League team executives in London. Its appropriate that he apologized because it doesnt set a great tone for the England captain.Glenn said he doesnt want to over-dramatize the incident but it will lead to new rules for players about how they can spend nights off while away with England. The FA is also investigating whether members of the England backroom staff were with Rooney when he dropped in on a wedding reception at the team hotel north of London.Why on earth you would be doing that, given there is an understanding, a team agreement around alcohol consumption during camp, Glenn said. So there would be questions asked for sure.The incident on the day after Fridays win over Scotland is a blot on Rooneys character after the United captain was thought to have curbed his previously erratic behavior on and off the field.It has sparked a fresh wave of negative publicity for England in a year that saw the team eliminated from the European Championship in the round of 16 and Sam Allardyce forced out of the managers job for unguarded comments to undercover reporters posing as businessmen.Rooney was quick to apologize in public and privately to England interim manager Gareth Southgate, who is waiting to discover whether he will be handed the job permanently. Southgate previously said Rooney missed Tuesdays friendly with Spain through injury rather than as punishment for his late-night antics.Rooney, who began his career at Everton, received backing from an unlikely source: Liverpool.These boys, this generation, is the most professional generation of footballers -- not only in England, but (the) England (team), too, that there has ever been, Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp said. All the legends we love and admire, they drank like devils and smoked like crazy, but they were still good players. No one does it any more. I dont know anyone now.We had a Christmas party and I had to fill peoples glasses. Its about timing. When you are in the wrong time at the wrong place its not good as a professional. I have no idea where Wayne was, but Im pretty sure its not really serious.Rooneys trouble stemmed from the fact he posed for pictures wearing his England training gear in the early hours to please fans attending the wedding. 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I will work with Rosa to my retirement. I will stand out for the truth, Kiprop said in his statement.The legal case threatens to develop into another embarrassing episode for Kenyan athletics, which has been hit hard by doping scandals over the last four years. It also comes less than a month ahead of the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, where Kenyas track and field team was already expected to come under heavy scrutiny.Athletes and officials, and Kenyas anti-doping authorities, have all been mired in problems. Around 40 runners have been banned for doping since the 2012 Olympics, four senior federation officials face allegations of corruption, including doping cover-ups, and Kenyas drug-testing program has been suspended by the World Anti-Doping Agency.The police case against Kiprops manager, Rosa, relies on accusations made by Elijah Kiprono Boit, a former runner who competed at the 2001 and 2004 world youth championships.The accusations against Rosa are unclear. In court documents, police said Rosa helped administer prohibited substances to Boit, and conspired to injure him through doping in a period from 2004-08.dddddddddddd Rosa has not formally been charged or entered a plea, and was released on $3,000 bail on Friday having been held in custody for three days. He surrendered his passport and cannot leave Kenya.Kiprop also attended the court hearing in support of his agent.Six of Rosas athletes will run at the Olympics next month, including Kiprop, 2016 London Marathon winner Jemima Sumgong, and two-time 10,000-meter world championships bronze medalist Paul Tanui.Rosa has also previously represented at least three Kenyan athletes who have been banned for doping: Champion marathoner Rita Jeptoo, Mathew Kipsorio, and 800-meter runner Agatha Jeruto.But in his statement, world champ Kiprop suggested Kenyan authorities were looking for a scapegoat by blaming Rosa for doping cases. Kiprop cited the example of Kisorio, who was banned from 2012-14 for steroids.It is our own people who doped our athletes and a good answer to this is when Mathew Kisorio doped he confessed and showed the doctor who doped him to the authorities, Kiprop said. No action was taken against the doctor.Kenyas anti-narcotics unit, which is leading the investigation into Rosa, said it wanted to investigate all athletics training camps in the country for doping.---Associated Press writer Tom Odula contributed to this story.---Imray reported from Somerset West, South Africa. ' ' '