Whelan is clearly not used to the saying, ‘we’re United and we do what we want’ after claiming that the FA "seem to be afraid of applying the law to Manchester United".
But at the end of the day the FA simply followed rules, Mark Clattenburg saw the incident, admitted that he saw the incident and he felt that a strong talking too was enough of a punishment. After all, Wigan are probably going down anyway so why bother? he could have thought.
And the reason they look like going down is not because Rooney was allowed to stay on the pitch, but because Wigan shipped in four goals due to them playing, how shall we put this?....ah yes, rubbish.
I feel that Whelan’s time would be better spent trying to sort something that will help prevent Wigan from going down, not looking to be some sort of people’s champion, leading a mass speakout about Manchester United and Wayne Rooney.
After all, there is enough bitter folk around to do that.
Here is what he said to the Daily Telegraph: "I cannot understand how the FA can say there will be no further action.
"Manchester United is a great club and Fergie is just simply the best manager, but it is the referees who seem to be afraid of applying the law to United and I don't know why.
"Man United get treated a little bit differently to the rest of the football clubs. I wish they would treat Wigan like that. I wish we could get away with certain things that Man United get away with.
"Mark Clattenburg is usually a very good referee. I could not believe that he [Rooney] was not sent off. Had it been one of our players, he would have walked.
"Rooney was only ten yards from the referee and it was a deliberate elbow. It was the swipe of an elbow right across the head and a clear sending-off offence."