United's Wayne Rooney said ragarding the red card incident; 'In being forced back, I had trod on the player on the ground'. 'It turned out to be Carvalho. And I was aware that my foot had landed between his legs, which, of course, is about the nastiest place to get hurt, but it was an . 'I couldn't believe that the ref, who was so near, hadn't realised that. Perhaps he was too near.' Rooney added: 'I'll go to my grave and still maintain it was a complete . I hadn't intended to do it. I had my back to the player. I couldn't see him, or where I was putting my foot. 'If you think about it, if I'd done it deliberately, if it had been a definite stamp meant to harm him, the fella would still be in hospital to this day. But he was up on his feet in minutes, no worse for wear.' Rooney also denied any hard feelings or fights with his team mate Christiano Ronaldo. Rooney insists Cristiano Ronaldo did not try to wind him up in the tunnel before England's World Cup quarter-final defeat to Portugal in Gelsenkirchen.