Manchester United icon Wayne Rooney suffers latest managerial blow at the hands of Frank Lampard
It was yet another sobering matchday for Manchester United icon Wayne Rooney as his Plymouth side were battered 4-0 by Coventry on Boxing Day.
Rooney was appointed Plymouth boss earlier this year but it's not been the start to life at Home Park that he would have hoped for. Plymouth were bottom of the Championship table at Christmas having picked up just four wins from their 21 league games.
They travelled to Coventry on Boxing Day, themselves experiencing a difficult season having parted ways with Mark Robins. Frank Lampard was appointed Robins' successor last month and he gave former England teammate Rooney a Boxing Day to forget at the Coventry Building Society Arena.
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Plymouth were battered 4-0 by the Sky Blues. Tatsuhiro Sakamoto put the hosts ahead inside the opening five minutes before Josh Eccles added a second just 15 minutes later. Ephron Mason-Clark added a third before Eccles doubled his account for the afternoon on the stroke of half time.
The scoring ended there but Plymouth's afternoon went from bad to worse when Callum Wright was sent off in the second half.
Questions have been raised over Rooney's future at Plymouth and the heavy Boxing Day defeat will only fuel calls for the club to sack the United legend.
