Wayne Rooney reveals how his rage-fuelled decision in Chelsea title decider left John Terry on crutches

Wayne Rooney has detailed how he left John Terry on crutches after setting out to hurt a rival player while struggling with the pressure placed upon him.

Ahead of the release of a new documentary focused on the former Manchester United and England star, Rooney has opened up on the difficulty he had coping with expectation during his career.

Rooney, 36, now admits that the anxiety often led to him resorting to alcohol, while also leading him to anger - as Chelsea defender Terry once discovered.

“We knew if Chelsea won then they had won the league that day,” he told PA News Agency of the April 2006 trip to Stamford Bridge, where United would go onto lose 3-0. “Until my last game for Derby, I always wore the old plastic studs with the metal tip.

“For that game I changed them to big, long metal ones - the maximum length you could have because I wanted to try and hurt someone, try and injure someone. I knew they were going to win that game. You could feel they were a better team at the time so I changed my studs.

“The studs were legal but thinking if there's a challenge there I knew I'd want to go in for it properly, basically. I did actually.

“John Terry left the stadium on crutches. I left a hole in his foot and then I signed my shirt to him after the game... and a few weeks later I sent it to him and asked for my stud back.

“If you look back when they were celebrating, JT's got his crutches from that tackle.”

In the end, the rage-fuelled decision to change boots at Stamford Bridge proved costly. During a late challenge with Paulo Ferreira, Rooney's front studs got caught in the turf and he broke three metatarsal bones just weeks before the 2006 World Cup.

“Looking back, I should never have gone to that World Cup,” said