Comments on: Rooney: I’m Glad I Didn’t Get England Stick Like Other United Players

By: AJK

AJK — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:00:33 +0000

@ Stephen
I would like you to imagine that Rooney was in Ron’s shoes. Do you still think that if Ron had stepped on Terry’s nuts that Rooney should have been obligated to stay out of it because Ron and him were club mates and friends. I think not.
Rooney made a rash challenge and what followed after was him showing his frustration. We are just glad now that the boy has become a man and has matured. We are almost guaranteed that he wouldn’t do such in a United game.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:48:14 +0000

ZD, I know what you are saying but a sending off changes the philosophy of the side with the numerical disadvantage, they tend to retreat and become less attacking which would genuinely mean that they would take penalties rather than run the risk of loosing the game outright, especially with Sven-Göran Eriksson in charge!
Also Ronaldo was Rooney mate, so really he was out of order in that sense the incident had nothing to do with him and he got involved to get a friend and a club mate dismissed, but that sums up Ronaldo really disloyal.

By: ZD Casuals

ZD Casuals — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:35:18 +0000

@ Pagolak & Stephen:

Being teammates at United doesn’t matter. They’re playing for different teams and both want to win.

Players surround the ref and mime “card displays” all the time. You could say that Ronaldo and the other players shouldn’t have done it, but you could also say Rooney shouldn’t have committed the foul and then reacted to the miming by pushing Ronaldo away.

Whatever Ronaldo did, it’s important to note, as Scott has pointed out: it finished a scoreless draw and three England players failed to score their penalty shots. Did Ronaldo’s “red card antics” also cause them to miss their penalties?

An almost similar situation was Beckham vs Argentina. He was sent off, but again, England failed to win on penalties.

In both cases, England supporters overlooked the fact that the penalty takers failed to convert their chances and instead blamed an individual player for the failure of the entire team. I wonder what the reaction would have been had England won those matches…

They can obviously play well enough with a man down, so maybe England should worry less about sending offs and concentrate on putting away those penalties.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:37:10 +0000

Ronaldo was hardly an innocent in that instance he should not have got involved in something which had nothing to do with him, and Rooney was a team mate maybe he should have taken that into account also.

By: Scott the Red

Scott the Red — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:23:13 +0000

PALGOLAK – So Ronaldo made Rooney push him? Get a grip. Ronaldo was one of several people telling the ref to do something, Rooney made a choice to push him. It’s pathetic to put the blame on Ronaldo’s shoulders.

By: PALGOLAK

PALGOLAK — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:03:12 +0000

If you examine the Rooney sending-off incident in detail (which I have) you can plainly see that Rooney didn’t receive the red card because of his actions during play.

It was only after he pushed Ronaldo, who was frantically miming a “card display” to the ref, that Rooney was carded.

So yes, it *was* because of that piece of shit Ronaldo that Rooney received the card.

By: willierednut

willierednut — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:45:31 +0000

Ive seen this in various papers today, reopening that incident between wazza and ronny in the world cup in 06. I suppose the rags will twist rooneys words making out he hates ronny wen all he said was he didn’t care if portugal didn’t make it to the world cup.

By: JD

JD — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:44:39 +0000

@Hargos hair

Isn’t it a case of too late for Hargreaves? Assuming he makes a full recovery and starts playing in our matches the turn of the season our qualifying stages are over. He might get in on some friendly matches but unless his training ground work is superb or Barry gets an injury, Capello will think it’s better to stick with that he’s seen work over the course of the whole campaign.

He might have a chance if he’s resurgent and hit’s the first 11 in some crunch matches by January onwards, then starts featuring in the q/finals and beyond in the CL and plays brilliantly. Imagine him putting in his performance on the right wing vs Chelsea in Moscow, how we didn’t score more.. oh wait Tevez.

Quite amusing situation with England, 12+ months ago I imagined a starting 11 with Foster dominating the GK crisis, midfielders Carrick who was playing pretty well at the time with Hargo behind, Wes Brown who for me was Englands best right back by a fair bit, better to defend first than attack mr Johnson! Rio&Rooney a must but unfortunately to England everyone got injured. Not a qualification chance in hell.

By: ajopaul

ajopaul — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:16:22 +0000

No matter what I would love to see England lift the cup next year. Yes United lead me to England. but dont mind seeing the bests of gerrard lampard along with rooney and rios..

By: mara

mara — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:31:39 +0000

I think all this doesnt matter. I think that England has a great players, and finally i would like to see you guys do something big in the world cup. You have a great manager, player, results…Capello is worth of every penny.
And about getting cards for makeing yourself nervous, I wouldn t let that guy ever play for his country. You have to think about all team when you are angry. They are professionals and they have get use to it. They play in big clubs under big pressure, so they have no excuse.