If Johnny Foreigner had kicked one of our players we would be demanding that UEFA throw the book at him. Rooney is thick as **** and always will be.
At least Maybe Sturridge will get a chance now.
The point is that it never is us. England always just play the game straight, it's always the other countries starting this crap with their fouling, their time-wasting, their diving, whatever, but it's always the England player that gets penalised! Beckham for waving his leg in the air after getting snapped, Rooney for being wrestled to the floor onto someone's bollock by the Portuguese defenders that couldn't handle him legally, and again Rooney for missing a ****ing tackle! It's football, all you do in football is kick, if you're going to be pedantic every tackle is a kick ffs. The point is the ball was there and it was just any old tackle! Every time the cheating foreigner gets away with it and we get punished for being cheated.
Wasn't we all slagging Guthrie off for doing exactly the same to ***an against Newcastle 3 seasons ago. We can't have it both ways. Rooney is an excellent footballer but also a libility. This isnt the first time he has lost the plot. Remember against Ronaldo in the 2006 world cup. I wouldn't have him in the squad for the Euros now. **** him.
No. Guthrie's was completely off the ball, kicked ***an halfway up his leg and subsequently broke it. Rooney kicked the cheating twat's foot in an attempt to tackle him. Every player does that every match.
As far back as I can remember foreign teams had cheats, Italy were the worlds worst at one point both at club and international level. Then there were the South American's who were just like the Italian's but more so. But England, always seemed to try and play by the rules, remember Ramsey calling Argentina 'animals'?
Rooney is just the latest of a long line of England players who have been led up the garden path by these foreign shysters, Chopper Harris, Norman Hunter, Nobby Stiles, Brian Labone, were constantly caught out by the then 'dying swans' of the game who would roll over a dozen times at the slightest tap on the ankles. Seems like we will never learn and pay the consequences for it.
Not even close in my opinion, Guthrie's was a completely off the ball incident with the intention of hurting the player, Rooney's was just a bit of a frustrated lash as the ball was getting away from him. There was a case of assault in that game, but it wasn't Rooney's, it was the elbow to the face of Wellbeck, which the ref missed completely, where's his three match ban?
I agree with these last two. To anyone who watched the game it was completely evident that Montenegro had been sent out to cheat their way to a result. Every possible way they could bend the rules they did it, the guy who Rooney tackled had been booked a minute after coming on but kept physicallty hauling England players down every time we attackedwith the sole intention of stopping the game and he was left to do it for the rest of the game. As soon as Rooney does something (even if it was nothing) the ref couldn't wait to send him. We were once again the victims in that game and once again we got punished for it.
I think Fifa and Uefa in this cases has the player history in consideration and we know this isn't the first for Rooney.
No it isn't the first time a set of cheating foreigners have got him sent off is it...
People are obsessed with hating Rooney because the celebtrity media crap convince them too, they want you to talk about his hair, his temper or whatever rather than his football ability, the same goes for Cole and Terry who someone above mentioned are two of the best players in their position, but people still hate them because the media tell them to based on their private lives. These people need to make their own minds up by watching the game instead of just throwing out the old "England players don't care any more" bollocks.
Back onto football, and calming down a little bit hopefully, I think the talent pool is still very deep, we have about 7 or 8 midfielders and as many strikers competing for the front 6 positions, and Rooney is just one of those, although admittedly one of the better ones. I'd probably still take him because there are usually 3 or 4 players who aren't used in the squad at all in the tournament so one of these places could be taken by Rooney for the first few games. Also, it's important to remember how well Ghana and Germany did at the last WC despite losing their respective best players just before the tournament. Who wins it will be down to much more than one player being out injured. We still have one of the best teams.
