Wayne Rooney

i agree - and weirdly the worse he gets the more people keep hyping him. that last contract was fucking criminal - he's still dining off it.

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the more certain people keep hyping him anyway.

He has won the England Player of the Year award four times, in 2008, 2009, 2014 and 2015. With 51 goals in 109 international caps, Rooney is England's all-time record goalscorer and fourth most-capped player.

Ppl who treat this as the defence as opposed to admitting it as the problem are imbeciles

― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Monday, 23 May 2016 10:21 (nine months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

But really, this. But wheel in all his stats for united too. Clipboard player, fuck off.

Frankenstein repped for his fuckin monster too for long enough

his united stats are actually fairly elucidating

I can't decide whether that's a thingy or not.

I love the fact that he's totally irrelevant to this Utd team now

Still though, at the press conference before the St. Etienne game 90% of the hacks' questions were about Rooney. They just can't quit him

I've a pet theory that Moyes and Rooney were a poisonous goodbye from fergie but twas Moyes signed him to that contract, if Moyes had anything to do with it, or if Moyes was in a position to do anything but at the time. There's a theory in there somewhere tho def

The emperor's roo clothes is the one headline the cunts can't bring themselves to write

Let's leave Karl Marx out of this. Engels, he was a Manc lad.

I was trying to think today if there's any other club whose fans largely despise their all-time top goal scorer

I'd need to see a list tbh

Rooney's goals and assists (combined) per game

2009/2010 0.96875
2010/2011 0.785714286
2011/2012 1
2012/2013 0.814814815
2013/2014 1
2014/2015 0.515151515
2015/2016 0.5
2016/2017 0.117647059

any idea that he has taken up the xavi role or something and that explains why there is a such a huge drop-off after 2013/2014 is bullshit obv. he just is a player whose primary attribute was consistent attacking output which he no longer provides.

taken up the sausage role iirc

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/9593/production/_96919283_wazza976.jpg

Everton have been given royal treatment since they arrived in the East African state.

The wild chants for Rooney, along with stomping performances by Maasai cultural dancers, created a spectacle to behold.

iirc the sighting of a white elephant has special cultural significance to the Maasai.

lol!

:D

The colonial write-up ("wild chants") courtesy of the bbc btw.

beautiful finish there from Shari

completely white elephant

Thought the fat nothing amoeba had internationally retired before now?

the lad doesn't know the meaning of the word "retire".

I mean, among lots of other words.

Goodbye England's rose, may you ever grow in our hearts

Completely white rose obv

pretty sure he's cooked up this retirement story and Southgate's had the decency to play along with it

still, it leaves an opening for John Terry

And he don't need asking twice

Cunt

Posted at 21:03
'A little reducer'

Liverpool 0-0 Everton

Martin Keown

Former Arsenal defender on BBC One

I think Wayne Rooney is saying (to the referee) 'I got there as quick as I could', but it was very late and it is a painful one for Joe Gomez. A little reducer from Rooney early on. I hope he doesn't regret that.

No lie there.

i like a spotting of a reducer in the wild

Fucking child cunt

Ref that leaves holgate on the pitch here is a coward

Yep

http://is-a-cunt.com/category/wayne-rooney/

Didn’t book him?

Ridiculous reffing. Never seen a ref pulled around by a player like that before. No booking.

Jesus

A golem Bela Lugosi and dobbie

“Borderline”

Holgate absolutely convinced he was racially abused by Firmino from the gifs.

You can always trust Liverpool for a goals galore entry

Lovely break that

Vv:D

Jesse Lingard stole his powers

Holgate absolutely convinced he was racially abused by Firmino from the gifs.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Friday, 5 January 2018 21:11 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Amateur lip readers online saying it looked more like "are you crazy you son of a whore/bitch"

rooney gets even worse and the same cult of morons around him continues to boost. before the match tonight bbc live text, essentially rooney's political base, said "if only everton had two rooneys" - i think it was shearer. it all sort of makes sense as the language around the fa cup becomes more and more brexit, though would prefer if liverpool everton didn't get dragged into some pride of britain affair.

seems england or english football just won't give up on this useless moron - i swear the last two everton games i've watched on motd he's given the ball away for a goal, and yet there's some desperate narrative that needs to act like the world would be a better place if only we had 7.6 billion wayne rooneys, all chuntering into each other.

anyway - the atmos seemed good - and welcome vvd. kinda hoping his performance and goal and general ego combined with his productive hectoring of karius might suggest one player in this team has a backbone as well as talent.

Good post. And of course it was Shearer stanning for Rooney; he's his mirror image in today's football, TWP could be Shearer's son. Both are essentially Brexit players: entirely opportunist, morally bankrupt, infantile and hyper-capitalist. Always first in line to swap embodying one unpopular opinion for the next. I'm sure they'll have a right laugh at the next debauched wedding of some footballing millionaire dummy they'll both attend. (Hope they'll grab a cab afterwards instead of driving themselves. For other people's sake.)

have to admit that VvD at Liverpool is genuinely exciting. I placed a bet on VvD scoring tonight. Nothing to pride myself about, but he's the unique kind of player you kind of expect to score on his debut for Liverpool. 84m for VvD isn't a lot if he's a good fit and the fans grow to love him. He's already proved worth the money more than Bale has managed in years and years at Madrid. If it's a perfect fit, it's a perfect fit. That's invaluable nowadays.

Both are essentially Brexit players: entirely opportunist, morally bankrupt, infantile and hyper-capitalist.

lbi have you ever considered following north american sport? we could use you

I'm trying to get into baseball. As in seriously trying, reading the threads, the books, the websites. I watched most of last season and most of the play-offs, and pretty much thoroughly enjoyed it. But I just don't feel I can *connect* to it like people who grew up with it. I feel like I'm way behind you guys all the time, which is frustrating.

The whole transfer and trading stuff ~is a mystery to me~ for one. In football, club A just buys Wayne Rooney from club B for an insane amount of money, and he'll still be shite. It's comforting to know how things play out. I'm trying w/ baseball, believe, but it's not easy.

When you saw you "watched most of last season", were you watching one team in particular or just random games? Because I think most people connect to baseball by being a fan of a team first more than the game in general, especially during the regular season.

xp yeah i deeply appreciate (while also suspecting they're entirely bullshit) your moral/political takes on sport, but it's tough to master other idioms. bobby spirals is perhaps a savant