Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers insists Raheem Sterling did not refuse to play for England in Sunday's Euro 2016 qualifier in Estonia.

National team boss Roy Hodgson says the teenager told him he was tired.

Sterling was a second-half substitute in the match, winning the free-kick which Wayne Rooney scored from.

Rodgers is angry about the criticism his player has been receiving, saying: "It's been grossly unfair how the kid has been put on the back pages for something that he clearly didn't say," said the Liverpool manager.