What is your opinion of Wayne Rooney?

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thick scouse gypo showed his true colours

Originally posted by Herbert
thick scouse gypo showed his true colours

You mean from the England game last night ? Most of the England players seemed to lose there cool.

Well done to him, he's taken himself from rags to riches, I cannot think of a reason to dislike him other than im jealous :)

Were it not for his footballing skills, he would be on some sink estate in Liverpool living as a fully fledged chav. Someone is going to have to have serious words with him and try to get some sense into the lump of wood between his ears ( not an easy task I'm sure). If not he will probably cost England dear at some point in the future ie the next World Cup.

Lots of money, some talent - has got a lot of growing up to do. Hope he does not turn into another Gazza, but it's looking very possible

He's only a young lad for christ's sake!. I dare say i have reacted to situations a lot worse than he did last night when i was his age.
He is the best prospect this country has had in years, yet every day he has to wake up to the press calling him Shrek or removal man or something else derogitary.
How many times was Dicanio called a Gypo?
How many other footballers would be living in some sink estate being a chav?

He has a lot to learn...Granted..., but lets reopen this thread when the next world cup is on and see if he is still a 'Gippo, Hooligan Chav' then!

inbred gypo..end of..........

He's got great potential but, as I mentioned in another thread, he's now in the big boys game, with big boys money. (Not sure whether I need apostrophes there...:confused: ) And that means he must put up with the crap from the media - especially when he brings some of it on himself. It's not easy when he has a girlfriend who is now turning up in the celeb mags, either.

He can be an excellent player, but that's not enough to make him truly great. He's young, and perhaps the wealth and adulation have turned his head, but he must overcome that to achieve his potential.

It's not going to be easy but if he can learn humility, patience, judgement and control that temper he will be an excellent player and a great sportsman.

If he can't, then the club of Best and Gazza has always got space for a newcomer.

Joe

He needs a very hard kick up the backside.

He will grow up, but he is 19 years old ie old enough to be considered an adult and to be judged by adult standards of behaviour.

I've heard it said that "he probably didn't really know why he was wearing the black armband" but in that case why on earth was he wearing it??

Originally posted by Yodameister
I've heard it said that "he probably didn't really know why he was wearing the black armband" but in that case why on earth was he wearing it??

if that is the case, we should be questioning what kind of footballer he is

To be honest I think the wearing of black armbands is getting a little silly, it seems to get ever more frequent.

I'm not saying that they shouldnt have been on Wednesday, Emlyn Hughes was an England Captain after all; but it seems like they wear black armbands for every Tom, DIck or Harry recently, and it wouldn't be surprising if players didn't always know who they were wearing them in memory of.

Rooney the baby ?

He should carry on of those Blackpool dummies round his neck so he can throw it when he has a tantrum.

Great sportsman don`t have baby tantrums so he is not a great sportsman. Just because he has talent he behaves like this.

Footballers ego`s play the field not the footballer themselves.

He should grow up and behave like the sportsman he wants to be and have a bit of respect for himself and others.

Originally posted by JoePritchard
He's got great potential but, as I mentioned in another thread, he's now in the big boys game, with big boys money. (Not sure whether I need apostrophes there...:confused: )

Collectively possessive, so yes, it should be positioned after the 's' (i.e. "big boys' game").

Originally posted by Magneteer
Were it not for his footballing skills, he would be on some sink estate in Liverpool living as a fully fledged chav. Someone is going to have to have serious words with him and try to get some sense into the lump of wood between his ears ( not an easy task I'm sure). If not he will probably cost England dear at some point in the future ie the next World Cup.

Will you be cheering him next time he scores for England? You seem to hate the kid a lot. I'm guessing it's 99.999999% pure jealousy.

Originally posted by Robbie_Lovin
if that is the case, we should be questioning what kind of footballer he is

Does this even mean anything? :confused:

Originally posted by t020
Collectively possessive, so yes, it should be positioned after the 's' (i.e. "big boys' game").

Thanks!

Better get my Grammar text book out again....:)

Haha...

You all would love to have Wayne at your clubs-- all of you would - dont deny it!

I think its basically 99% jealousy that he's got the kinda lifestyle you or me could only dream of at his age... I say good on him- he's worked hard to get where he is today.

And you will all be back on the Rooney bandwagon soon enough again come the World Cup....

Originally posted by ANGELUS
Haha...

You all would love to have Wayne at your clubs-- all of you would - dont deny it!

I think its basically 99% jealousy that he's got the kinda lifestyle you or me could only dream of at his age... I say good on him- he's worked hard to get where he is today.

And you will all be back on the Rooney bandwagon soon enough again come the World Cup....

I think Wayne has an admirer judging by all your posts! :D Despite being male and straight, I can certainly see why as well.... he's definitely a looker. :hihi:

Originally posted by ANGELUS
Haha...

You all would love to have Wayne at your clubs-- all of you would - dont deny it!

I think its basically 99% jealousy that he's got the kinda lifestyle you or me could only dream of at his age... I say good on him- he's worked hard to get where he is today.

And you will all be back on the Rooney bandwagon soon enough again come the World Cup....

Yes, he's certainly an asset when he plays well.

I'm not that much of a soccer fan, but I do appreciate skill when I see it.

And that's what is scary - it would be TRAGIC for that skill to be blown away by a few episodes of childish petulance. And if the lifestyle you envy involved getting caught going to brothels, having rows with your girlfriend spread over the newspaper and similar things, then good luck to you.

Joe

Originally posted by JoePritchard
I'm not that much of a soccer fan, but I do appreciate skill when I see it.

Soccer????????

Come on Joe you don't call Football soccer do you?!?!?!

Hi Ian,

Soccer is the game played with round balls.

Football (played to either League or Union rules) is played with proper shaped balls....;)

Rooney's behaviour the other evening showed the truth of the old joke : "Soccer is a gentleman's game played by hooligans, and rugby is a ruffian's game played by gentlemen"

Joe

Originally posted by JoePritchard
Hi Ian,

Soccer is the game played with round balls.

Football (played to either League or Union rules) is played with proper shaped balls....;)

Rooney's behaviour the other evening showed the truth of the old joke : "Soccer is a gentleman's game played by hooligans, and rugby is a ruffian's game played by gentlemen"

Joe

I always thought that soccer was the American word for football.

lol at the old joke

I find it incredible that a game like Rugby can be played without any trouble whilst football games seem to have fights on the field every game.

It's sad really....

Hi Ian,

I'm not sure when / where the name soccer was first used, but you might be right about it being in the US, as there was a US soccer team established (Onieda) before any other country in the world outside England. (Including Scotland and Wales).

But soccer was certainly used by teachers to differentiate between teams when I was at school.

I played Rugby Union when at school and eventually packed it in because I was acquiring too many injuries...on the pitch, rather than off the pitch!

It is bizarre that there has never been the trouble associated with either type of Rugby that there has been with Soccer. I guess it might be to do with the 'mass market' appeal of Soccer - perhaps if Rugby became as big a sport in TV,Media and week in week out spectator numbers then there might soon start appearing the more maniacal fans.

Joe

Originally posted by JoePritchard
But soccer was certainly used by teachers to differentiate between teams when I was at school.


My PE teachers when I was at school always insisted on it being called football lol.

It's kind of influenced me because whenever someone calls football soccer I find myself correcting them by shouting:-

It's football!!!!!!

:rolleyes:

Soccer has always been the term used to describe football in America to me.

The word SOCCER came about when used by public schoolboys in the last century, and was a derivative of ASSOCIATION, as in Association Football as was RUGGER for Rugby Football. So it is certainly an English title by origin although is the preferred name used by Americans.

Originally posted by JoePritchard
It is bizarre that there has never been the trouble associated with either type of Rugby that there has been with Soccer. I guess it might be to do with the 'mass market' appeal of Soccer - perhaps if Rugby became as big a sport in TV,Media and week in week out spectator numbers then there might soon start appearing the more maniacal fans.

I'd say it's got more to do with the roots of the sport. Football ("soccer" - please!) has always been primarily a working-class game, and communities have always had strong bonds with particular team. This breeds the sort of fanaticism you see at matches both here and abroad; football is a way for people to forget the drudgery of their everyday lives. It just matters more than rugby.

Add to that the fact that football matches in general are usually far more dramatic and exciting than rugby matches (it's rare to see one team run away with a match, unlike in rugby where mismatches are commonplace), the fact that there's a much wider range of athletic skills on display than in any other sport, and the fact that the game ebbs and flows like no other... well, it's pretty easy to see why football is the world's number one sport.