Benitez sacked...

[ramAnag]

Accountants and teachers were suggested, I'll happily single out another profession if you prefer?
I suppose if you're someone with the luxury of an expensive education, you wouldn't emphasise with those who did not have such opportunity. Not everyone can afford a degree or to take time out of their working day to get these non-essential qualifications.
Not that I'd put Rooney in the poverty bracket, but he's worked hard under unprecedented circumstances, and shouldn't be discouraged due to lack of a specific coaching badge.

My education wasn’t expensive...not back in the 1970’s...it was a choice which, I accept, wasn’t available to everyone.
The qualifications I have were ‘essential’ if I wanted to pursue my career of choice.
Rooney isn’t being discouraged...but if he wants to progress further then he knows he needs the required coaching certificate. I can see the point of that maybe seeming a bit daft for someone with all his experience, but those are the rules and to make an exception for him would, imo, be far more discriminatory than the current situation.

P.S. There are plenty of examples of great footballers who’ve been dreadful managers. Rooney seems to be making the transition, as did Brian Clough, but it is by no means a gimme.