wayne rooney - c/d

(I really, really wish the pic of Dunky Ferguson strangling a Leicester player in today's Guardian was available online.)

And Rroney is certainly no Lee Presley (jeez, I hope those nasty agents/scallies) don't make a complete mess of him, Harchester need him even more now that Luke Davenport has a horror injury!)

i'm not yet convinced of Rooney as a striker and saw him more in a Scholes/Gazza role - has to play just behind a striker for best results. this may or may not be the case in reality tho. i think from what he has shown so far he is somewhere between Scholes and Gazza in ability with the potential to eclipse them both (made a great start internationally at least in the same way the two others did).

x-post about Lord Emile

He turns it on like that, in flashes, practically every game he plays. He's not consistently brilliant and is surrounded by varying shades of mediocrity at Everton (Yobo and Radzinski probably his most talented compadres, and there are occasionally signs that his intermittent partnership with Tomasz R will bloom into something special) - hence few goals and much frustration.

But still, I've been encouraged by his displays since Xmas and, if he features in all EFC's remaining fixtures (minus the one for which he'll be suspended), he'll ensure mid-table safety. There is no suggestion that his gifts have somehow deserted him post-fame - he just finds himself in a shambling, underperforming side this campaign (whither the well-oiled machine of 02-03? It wasn't all Li Tie's passing and Campbell's strength, was it?)

Whether his love of the Blues will prevail over his agent's love of cash remains to be seen. A good Euro2004 and we may lose him. I think the Great Clubs Of Europe would rather give him a couple more years with Drill Sergeant Moyes before whisking him away, the finished article at 20.

I've said before that I can't quite believe he starts England games, but he hasn't done badly, has he?

I love the image of Big Kev reprimanding Wayne for badmouthing his ma. I think Uncle Eugene walked straight out of a rejected Frank Clark screenplay.

I find this all terribly endearing somehow.

for those who do not wish to click on the Sun's link:

http://images.thesun.co.uk/picture/0,,2004141299,00.jpg

"But later his dad Wayne Snr got up and started singing Everton songs. He wanted Wayne to join him, but Wayne walked out in embarrassment.”

as in he wasn't embarrassed after singing "Why does it always rain on me" by Travis?!?!??!

Tomasz R is gorgeous, you fool! Carsley is the less appealing of the slapheads and you were forgetting Franny Jugfers. I'm not sure whether this squad is any more grotesque than Joe Royle's Dogs Of War, before Kanchelskis gave them a makeover. I think the (lysergic) dandy axis relocated to Anfield some time in the 80s and stayed there. I think the rot set in with Geoff Nulty.

That Chinese bird is pretty cute, I suppose.

No argument there. With a broken wing at the mo'.

Why does he 'need to be playing at a higher level' NOW. For godsake he's a fixture in the England team, a star of Euro 2004. How about a few decent performances for Everton? How about first repaying the club that got him where he is today, how about repaying Moyes (the only person with any dignity in this whole sorry affair) and the fans by at least staying for a couple of seasons to let them build a decent team for the future around him? Don't tell me that $25M is 'repayment', don't tell me that football is a business....ask the fans. I absolutely salute the Everton fans who sang 'one greedy bastard' and 'stand up if you hate Rooney' at the weekend. I hope Moyes can survive the boardroom manoevres, I hope they spend the money wisely and I hope they stay up.

The agents and advisors around him are obv.filth - out for a quick buck and with no genuine concern for his career. You can't blame Rooney - he's too young to to know his own mind. You can imagine how his head will have been turned by rubbing shoulders with the likes of Owen, Beckham etcA bit too thick too. A shame he doesn't have (as far as we can tell) a parent with any sense to advise him.

Football is fucked.

Of course he should spend the season in the reserves or be drummed out of the club for what he did. Who does he think he is? Would he try that on at Man Utd? Would Clough have stood for it? But no, in our new rebranded national game, the manager (one of the best and most experienced managers in the WORLD) is forced to kow-tow to some two-bit prima donna and find a way to get him back in the team. Again, the fans were absolutely right. I would have booed the tosser too.

I think Everton is a very high level.

At this I must object, booing your own players *during* a game has never sat well with me. simultaneously expecting/demanding victory from yr team and trying to upset/distract one of yr players is silly. agreed dyer was a twat, but differences to be put aside for 90 minutes.

Rooney + Smith = Cantona + Hughes, anyone?

Robson bought some crap I admit : Bramble, Cort.

                   james
   king  ferdinand   campbell   cole
wright-phillips                  jenas
                pennant
                         heskey
          vassell    defoe

boo this, fuckers.

Alan Smith!

On the night maybe, but it might have helped to stamp this out more quickly. It would have forced the Spanish FA to actually address the issue, rather than hide from it. FIFA won't do anything - I'd kick Spain out of the next World Cup - draconian maybe, unfair to genuine non-racist fans, yes. But it's that important.

that would be ridiculous and rather unfair given how it's a minority acting in suspicious circumstances (racist abuse no more common in Spain generally than several other European countries with populations relatively bereft of a major black immigrant contingent i.e. Italy, Turkey, Serbia, Slovakia)

Bad acts by : the crowd last night, the U-21 crowd, the manager..

The crowd : there is no rapid way to transform these morons into acceptable members of society. It would take years. So maybe denying them a platform to spew this racist filth is the best course of action - and it might make racists from other countries think twice too. Including English racists. Spain might need to be made an example of - and what better example than a country with a manager like theirs. And an FA that is prepared to do nothing about it.

Proper Spanish fans and players would suffer from the ban. Tough - stamping out racism is more important.

Ah, the beautiful cash-cow.

but hey, like i say, nonsensical conpiracy theory...

Or they could just be a small minority of cunts.

I entertained the idea of wanting Turkey banned from Euro 2000 when Turkish 'supporters' attacked Irish players on the pitch after their play-off qualifier - that's actual physical violence too, not mere verbal abuse. A less emotionally biased me quickly decided that would be too harsh however.

Don't recall hearing of any past incidents in which racial abuse was a problem with Spanish supporters e.g. when they played South Africa at the last World Cup. But I've not researched this at all.

Manchester United's Wayne Rooney was recently reported to have had a tattoo featuring the name of the south Wales band Stereophonics.

He is said to be a big fan of the band and had the title of their third album, Just Enough Education to Perform, put on his arm.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_west/7537416.stm

pretty sure dom was already all over this, if you can imagine

this could be the basis of a stereophonics comebck single, a la lindisfarne :- )

Self-deprecation?

Coleen McLoughlin’s path to becoming the perfect WAG bride
Submitted by Kiran Pahwa on Mon, 05/19/2008 - 13:58.

London, May 19 : Coleen McLoughlin is leaving no stone unturned to make sure that she outshines every other football bride when she weds soccer star Wayne Rooney on June 12.

While the guests will be treated to anal fresco champagne reception and barbecue, bride-to-be Coleen has decided to follow her own diet.

Man, I could go for some anal fresco champagne about now.

i have more respect for her now, following her own diet and all

how disappointing, i really thought this would be about how average he is.

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/SPORT/Pix/pictures/2010/11/3/1288788385275/Wayne-Rooney-006.jpg15,000 expected to watch burning of Wayne Rooney effigy in Kent

these jokers do this every year. ways to avoid killing yourself if you live in kent.

wasn't the effigy 'a gypsy' a few years back?

it was jordan before i think.

that was in lewes wasn't it? effigies schmeffigies tho

how disappointing, i really thought this would be about how average he is.

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