Well I happen to support Derby County, the club that he is now in charge of. They have lost the last four games without scoring a single goal, and the only Chaucerian thing about Saturday’s performance was that the players appear to have spent the night before the match with the Wife of Bath.
One increasingly fears that this is nothing more than a Prologue for relegation and ‘Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote’ he will be looking forward to the sack or the prospect of life at the third level of English football.
But never mind Chaucer, I have said frequently in recent months that he looks a little more like Henry VIII with each passing day. Then there was the time he had to quarantine because, apparently, Peter Beardsley’s brother brought a watch to his house, Peter Beardsley’s brother having been in contact with someone who tested positive. Truly, it boggles the mind.
All that said, his post-match interviews are quite lucid and honest, and he has a nice sense of humour. And when, seeing Rooney on TV about 10 years ago, a female friend commented on his stupidity I replied “He is no more stupid than the people running the country. It’s just that they have had a better education”.
Terry Needham
3 years ago
“…cheating on his childhood sweetheart by having threesomes with prostitutes; smoking heavily in the post-Wenger world of football professionalism. It was also evident in his playing style; all that uninhibited agression.” Sounds pretty Bullingdon Club to me.
See my comment comparing Rooney to the people who run the country in the final paragraph of my comment below.
croftyass
3 years ago
Patronising in the extreme .Rooney is from Croxteth -try visiting it and you might understand him better.Like me a son of the North west and working class Irish Catholic -unlike me a naturally gifted footballer with talent to spare-one of the best players of his generation (and I am a life long City fan!!!)-given his background and his meteoric rise as a wonderkid-he was a first team player at 16 ffs(having smashed all sorts of records as a youngster)-I’m amazed he’s as well balanced as he is.
I’m no footballer, nor an Englander, but I’m now full of admiration for Wayne Rooney, and also of a new concept for me: “the idea of Wayne Rooney”. So I’m left wondering why you express such offence at such a paean to this Rooney fellow? No doubt I am missing subtle esoteria and old grievances from these arcane worlds I am not part of……….
Michael Cowling
3 years ago
Could we use latter correctly, please?
alex bachel
3 years ago
Rooney was an excellent footballer but I think he peaked at too young an age. His first games for England were excellent and he frightened opposition defences, but he never seemed to progress from there. This is in contrast to Ronaldo who seemed to get better each year through his 20’s.
Well I happen to support Derby County, the club that he is now in charge of. They have lost the last four games without scoring a single goal, and the only Chaucerian thing about Saturday’s performance was that the players appear to have spent the night before the match with the Wife of Bath.
One increasingly fears that this is nothing more than a Prologue for relegation and ‘Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote’ he will be looking forward to the sack or the prospect of life at the third level of English football.
But never mind Chaucer, I have said frequently in recent months that he looks a little more like Henry VIII with each passing day. Then there was the time he had to quarantine because, apparently, Peter Beardsley’s brother brought a watch to his house, Peter Beardsley’s brother having been in contact with someone who tested positive. Truly, it boggles the mind.
All that said, his post-match interviews are quite lucid and honest, and he has a nice sense of humour. And when, seeing Rooney on TV about 10 years ago, a female friend commented on his stupidity I replied “He is no more stupid than the people running the country. It’s just that they have had a better education”.
“…cheating on his childhood sweetheart by having threesomes with prostitutes; smoking heavily in the post-Wenger world of football professionalism. It was also evident in his playing style; all that uninhibited agression.”
Sounds pretty Bullingdon Club to me.
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See my comment comparing Rooney to the people who run the country in the final paragraph of my comment below.
Patronising in the extreme .Rooney is from Croxteth -try visiting it and you might understand him better.Like me a son of the North west and working class Irish Catholic -unlike me a naturally gifted footballer with talent to spare-one of the best players of his generation (and I am a life long City fan!!!)-given his background and his meteoric rise as a wonderkid-he was a first team player at 16 ffs(having smashed all sorts of records as a youngster)-I’m amazed he’s as well balanced as he is.
I’m no footballer, nor an Englander, but I’m now full of admiration for Wayne Rooney, and also of a new concept for me: “the idea of Wayne Rooney”. So I’m left wondering why you express such offence at such a paean to this Rooney fellow? No doubt I am missing subtle esoteria and old grievances from these arcane worlds I am not part of……….
Could we use latter correctly, please?
Rooney was an excellent footballer but I think he peaked at too young an age. His first games for England were excellent and he frightened opposition defences, but he never seemed to progress from there. This is in contrast to Ronaldo who seemed to get better each year through his 20’s.