The Guardian: Wembley’s corner-flags remained unmolested as Wayne Rooney capped a quietly effective game with two simple yet well-taken second-half goals, the fiery striker marking his return to London by staying on the pitch longer than those around him for a change.
Wayne Rooney has had two red cards in his competitive career for Manchester United, one for sarcastically applauding the referee and another for throwing the ball back for a freekick to be retaken. Including the sending off in the World Cup, Rooney has average of 1 red card for every 101 matches he’s played in professionally.
England team mate Steven Gerrard averages a red card once every 95 matches. Peter Crouch once every 86 matches. Or there’s David Beckham once every 73 matches, after being sent off an incredible 8 times in his career and being the first Englishman to be sent off twice whilst representing his country.
But no, it’s Wayne Rooney who struggles to stay on the pitch for 90 minutes.
Some would call Rooney’s performance “quietly effective”, whilst the vast majority would describe his Man of the Match performance as “running the show”. Scoring half the goals and playing a vital role in a third, there was nothing quiet about the effect Rooney had on England yesterday. It was blatent, but only the ABU media could have missed that.
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I don’t think it’s an ABU media that we are dealing with here.It’s more of a anti-Rooney media and it’s a long time coming.I was getting tired of this country’s press not acknowledging his temper problem.Of course you are right about all the others,even Beckham.But we should never forget that Scholes has been sent off a lot of times and was the first England player to get sent off at Wembley.I wonder what’s his average Scott.Nonetheless,the press have never critisized Scholesy on this matter,so it’s not about being ABUs.Rooney has to realise that he is building a family now and he can’t act like he is 16 anymore.
“blatant”. otherwise good article.
wayne was sent off in the amsterdam tournament against porto scott. another harsh red card but a red card nonetheless. a recalculation is in order me-thinks
also he has been sent off once playing for everton
I personally thought Rooney was exceptional yesterday and, even though the opposition was weak, it was the best I’ve seen him play for a long time. He looked like he had forever on the ball when he had it, and as much time as he needed. Hopefully we can get Berbatov playing closer further forward on the pitch and see some similair results at United.
The Rooney/Gerrard combination was very,very good; too bad that they were surrounded by dray-horses like Heskey or no-trick-ponies like Lennon. In midfield, why was Gareth Barry on the field and Michael Carrick on the bench ? And anyone who thinks that Ingerland have strength-in-depth at central defence was clearly not watching Matthew Upson’s lumbering mistake-ridden performance against a team that really had its minds elsewhere.
Still, the Rooney/Gerrard combination was very, very good. What Capello needs to do is to add a couple of wingers – Ashley Young and Theo Walcott seem the most likely of the lads in the absence of Joe Cole – and hope-to-God that Owen Hargreaves can really come back stronger from his surgeries.
Of course, I turned it off after Wayne scored the second goal – it was really boring, a foregone conclusion that was then concluded, and even the cameo from Davey Becks did nothing to add to the entertainment value.
Another 169 hours until UTD/Villa ! The wait is starting to bug me.
United > england
Fuck the bitter ABU’s Manchester above everything.
Has anyone got any news on this supposed bust up Rooneys had with SAF? Apparently it was why he was left on the bench v Fulham.
Then again, it seems to be coming from YSB Lawrenson. Yawn…
If Fergie would have let him on the bench for this reason,then he would have started Carlos Tevez next to Berba.Rooney and Tevez sat on the bench because Fergie didn’t like what he saw against Liverpool.
The media hates Rooney so damn much. Rarely do we see him praised half as much as the media praises Stevie Me.
Hypocrites.