Mou vs Roo

leicester aren't very good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToQ0n3itoII

Hohoho

https://twitter.com/piesportsbooze/status/779656176124436480

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

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You kidding

― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Sunday, 18 September 2016 15:00 (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the quasi-religious requirement for people to pay their verbal tithes to rooney is fucking strange. like even lawro's "he is shit" comment here has to be about form and not ability. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/37461718

i dunno if i mentioned here that there's an acquaintance of a friend i've met about three times who's an evertonian, a drunk evertonian anytime i've met him. a year or two ago, we were chatting about football and i mentioned having doubts about rooney's ability. it became what i thought was one of those faintly, barely, ultimately not at all worthwhile 10-minute debates about an inane topic in which you engage with strangers, and i toned down my sarcasm and actual views accordingly, or at least i thought i did, a few minutes later he was aggressively demanding we go outside and have a punch-up due to my opinion of wayne rooney.

he's been hugely apologetic the two or three times i've met him since, either because it was out of character, or because he now just realises i was right and is mortified.

like people acting as if "he's going through a bad patch". when i first moved to london my flatmate kept buying these tomato plants. they weren't going through bad patches. they were fucking dying.

Born under a bad patch

utterly masterful display of Rooney apologism from Robbie Savage on BT tonight. Completely fluffed a chance which spooned on to Zlatan's head for the goal and Savage spends the rest of the game rhapsodising over his "movement"

He was standing completely unmarked in the middle of the box and took a step backwards

the conspiracy is real

Yup. The mismatch between the punditry and yet another woeful performance from him was ridiculous. Not one mention of that great counterattacking move suddenly grinding to a halt when Rooney massively overhit the pass and nearly sent it out for a thrown in.

Here it is: http://s21.postimg.org/u4yu0zp2f/Rooney_iloveimg_compressed_iloveimg_compressed.gif

Oof

the phrase "that's sunday league stuff" is bandied around a lot nowadays, but that...

lol

https://twitter.com/ForzaMundial/status/781606353253068804

UPDATE: still dropped

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKUOB8MN4Kc

UPDATE: he's on to save the day

and he's got another accidental assist lol

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/oct/04/wayne-rooney-sam-allardyce-england-left-me-battered

dunno if i've ever disliked a player more.

he makes shearer look humble

certainly p. extraordinary to see him talking about "being given the chance" to play in midfield as if he were a 12 year old wanting to transition to a new musical instrument

... from his own trumpet to second fiddle.

http://i.imgur.com/kFy6SuH.png

"I'm sure the instructions from Gareth - whether it's to play from the start or not to play - are instructions I will carry out to the best of my ability."

https://vine.co/v/5gj7pUuXZhx

come on, anybody can get caught out against top flight internationals

Guy is a carpenter by day, too.

Is it true Roo got booed at Wembley? Like, badly? Or is that tabloid talk?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3828607/Wayne-Rooney-watch-England-capatin-like-old-man-watching-grandchildren-frolic-garden.html

https://s.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/LJ4J_D5d34KjNC6L8g6Q8A--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3NfbGVnbztmaT1maWxsO2g9Mzc3O2lsPXBsYW5lO3B4b2ZmPTUwO3B5b2ZmPTA7cT03NTt3PTY3MA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/7a7f9f404043a317180f6a7067005ed8.jpg

posted this in the other thread but might as well go here too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1txLJu5BBsA

“But I have my apps and I can ask for food to also be delivered, which I do sometimes. You know the history of the paparazzi, for the hotel and the brand that sponsors me, the clothes brand, is amazing because they are there every day.

“Everybody knows the name of the hotel! Everybody knows the last arrivals of that brand! So for them, it is amazing.”

José Mourinho: My Manchester life is a disaster

i find this a bit weird - like yeah he's famous but why can't he go out for dinner? louis van gaal was publicly gorging himself on duck cantonese every week. now i'm sure jose has more paparazzi following but he could get a taxi, go somewhere nice, or just deign to rub shoulders with a few fans, big deal.

my shorter comment is: mou v deliveroo

he could get the chef at carrington to boil an egg for him

yeah is it totally unfeasible he could get a penthouse or something and cook his fucking dinner?

He's gone full Moyes at Sociedad. It's a sign he doesn't expect to stay long.

Either that or he knows he's losing the PR battle and wants people to think he's just sitting in his room playing Candy Crush and weeping.

"I want sometimes to walk a little bit and I can’t. I just want to cross the bridge and go for a restaurant. I can’t, so it is really bad. Buy a house? I do not know, I do not know."

Fergus Butler-Gallie ‏@_F_B_G_ May 3
Stood behind Jose Mourinho buying what appears to be a metric tonne of mango sorbet on the Kings Road.

Need a Mou vs Moyes thread. Things are almost perfect rn.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cvtvd9IWEAAJgOr.jpg

trolling everyone all at once, including himself

http://i.imgur.com/hXkWlnDl.jpg

Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho furious with FA staff over Wayne Rooney negligence

FA incapable of looking after a vulnerable 31 year old man.

"All the legends we loved drank like devils"