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Wayne Rooney suspects that Liverpool might have turned down the heating in the away locker room during his Premier League career.
The former Manchester United captain visited Anfield on countless occasions during his career — scoring winning goals there twice — and always felt as though it was frostier than other locker rooms he spent time in.
Rooney discussed the state of a number of locker rooms in a recent episode of The Wayne Rooney Show, and this is what he had to say about Anfield's: "You get some tight dressing rooms. Tottenham and Chelsea were always hot. You'd literally get dressed as quick as you can and then stand outside the dressing room.
"Anfield was always freezing. I don't know whether they manipulate the temperature in there."
In the same episode, Rooney revealed how a burst pipe led to his United teammates' clothes being covered in sewage during a trip to the Stadium of Light.
"I was actually suspended [for the match]. But above the dressing rooms were the toilets and [the roof] came through when all of the players were in their clothes," Rooney recalled.
"I think there was a load of whatever goes into the toilet, all over the players and the clothes."
The Premier League handbook for the 2025-26 season does not contain anything about minimum temperature requirements, but it does state that both the home and away locker rooms should be a minimum of 30 meters squared in size. Each dressing room must also contain six showers, four toilets, and two wash basins.
Rooney was speaking ahead of Liverpool's trip to Crystal Palace on Saturday, when he addressed Hugo Ekitike's suspension for the game after his dismissal against Southampton last week.
The Frenchman was shown a second yellow card after taking his shirt off while celebrating a goal.
"He's been caught up in the emotion of scoring a goal, and he'll probably regret it," said Rooney. "I'm not defending it because it is silly, but I'm saying what we've seen over recent years with VAR and players scoring goals and waiting to celebrate and stuff, I think it's actually refreshing to see someone celebrating a goal.
"He's doing really well, and it's probably a shootout for him and [fellow new signing] Alexander Isak to start [against Palace].
"He's giving Isak the chance to come in and try and take his place. So I'm sure he'll be devastated."
Isak made his first league start against Palace but struggled to influence proceedings as the Reds succumbed to their first league defeat of the campaign.
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