Wayne Rooney wore special studs to try and "hurt" Chelsea player in Man Utd match

Wayne Rooney has admitted that he deliberately wore longer studs in a crunch match against Chelsea when he played for Manchester United because he “wanted to hurt someone”.

United went to Stamford Bridge on April 29, 2006 needing a miracle to stop Chelsea winning the Premier League title.

Jose Mourinho ’s side held a nine-point lead over United with three games to go and only needed a draw to lift the trophy.

Rooney has spoken about the match in a new documentary, ‘Rooney’, which will be released by Amazon Prime on Friday.

In it he revealed that he went into the game with an ulterior motive: perhaps knowing that United’s title chances had faded, he decided to try and win another way.

“I changed my studs before the game,” Rooney says in the documentary.

“I put longer studs in because I wanted to hurt someone.”

He adds: “If Chelsea won a point, they won the league. At that time, I couldn’t take it.

“The studs were legal, they were a legal size, but they were bigger than what I would normally wear.”

Chelsea won the game comfortably as goals from William Gallas, Joe Cole and Ricardo Carvalho gave them the 3-0 win they needed to claim Mourinho’s second Premier League title with the club.

But Rooney did get his wish by inflicting pain on his England team-mate John Terry with a late tackle early on.

Just seven minutes into the match, Rooney flew into a full-blooded tackle which left Terry needing treatment on the pitch and saw a stretcher brought out.

Terry managed to recover to continue, but Rooney was later stretchered off himself after his over-exuberant style came back to bite him.

The incident shows the extent of Rooney’s anger problem during his early years at United.

The 36-year-old, who now manages Derby County,