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Posted by busker_du on 1 March 2011 - 9:32pm.
He shouldn't even be on the pitch tonight.
Congratulations, Agent Clattenburg. Mission accomplished.
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I don't care.....
..... What Rooney does on the pitch between now and the end of his career.
He's scum, even by football standards.
And Ferguson (who is a great, great man, but has his flaws) should be ashamed of himself for publicly defending that elbow.
Some things are more important than winning.
Sir Alex Ferguson
The so-called 'siege mentality' has played a key part in United's success during Ferguson's 25 year reign. So it's no surprise that he not only defended his player in this instance, but got his retaliation in first - with the allegation that Rooney was being unfairly targeted by the media.
Ultimately, Fergie is a man who knows how to get the best out of his players.
the best...
being presumably to give them the ok to assault other professionals on the pitch.
Where is Cloughie when we need him?
Sadly,
he's talking to Gerry Rafferty
Assault
Whatever Ferguson may have said to the press, I expect Rooney got both barrels behind closed doors. No manager would approve of a key player stupidly risking a three match ban ahead of some important fixtures.
I dunno
Perhaps he's humiliating Justin Fashanu on the great training ground in the sky.
What odds
on a Cole winner?
Presumably
everyone is shouting "Shoot!" every time he gets the ball?
Oh
Yes
I agree, but...
...if Chelsea hadn't used a flimsy excuse to bottle the fixture when it should have been played, they wouldn't have had David Luiz on the pitch to equalise!
So, on that basis, my money's on Torres to get the winner!
There's a great piece
here by Sam Wallace in The Independent which explains exactly how Rooney has managed to be playing tonight:
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/sam-wallace...
Karma
is a wonderful thing.
Fergie
They've just interviewed Fergie on Sky. He is pretty graceless and ignorant.
The BBC are not missing out.
Fergie
They've just interviewed Fergie on Sky. He is pretty graceless and ignorant.
The BBC are not missing out.
Bad loser
I think he's just a bad loser. However much the bad decisions even themselves out across a match, he seems to get overly enraged over the ones that go against him. Whenever he's interviewed before a match he seems stable and calm and says sensible things.
Well, you know what they say
Show me a good loser and I'll show you...a loser.
Saying that, there are examples of his good grace in defeat - remember it was he who insisted that his players form a guard of honour to clap Chelsea onto the pitch at the start of the match after they had secured their first Premiership title. He also sent champagne to the Arsenal dressing room when they won the title at OT and went into the Wimbledon dressing room to shake every player's hand after they knocked United out of the FA Cup one year.
I think a lot of what he says is spin and deflection, but I also think he sometimes genuinely feels hard done by when bad decisions go against his team and it is just in his nature to express this in quite a petulant way. When United are beaten fair and square, he doesn't usually look for external excuses - e.g. his response after the Wolves game last month: "...in the second half we didn't really get going. Wolves are a handful from set pieces and that's what cost us the game."
His BBC embargo has gone on for so long
that, frankly, no one gives a shit except for him. The BBC don't miss out, we don't miss out and Ferguson gets one less talking head yawnathon to do after the match. It's just silly now and makes him look a bit pathetic really, though clearly he doesn't see it that way.
Whatever, let him stamp his foot.
Surely...
his club is recieving monies from the BBC, how does he get away with it?
By
putting it in to a brown envelope and giving it to...REDACTED FOLLOWING LEGAL ADVICE
Presume
...That Clattenburg had a word with Martin Atkinson prior to the game tonight.
Shocking is all I can say.
Well done Chelsea though - they played well 2nd half.
carry on with the ABU rants at your leisure
Untouchables!
- and how come cole shoots and misses a penalty but shoots and hits a team-mate?
rooney is a bad role model for kids wanting to get into prof footie, one of many in this industry - why is that, do they stop schooling the juniors once they get near the age to be able to play in the first team or are they just born terminally stupid?
Think of it as a social
experiment. Give an 18 year old £100,000 a week and see what it does to his head.
I'm amazed there aren't more of them who behave abysmally.
Does anyone remember Henry Root?
Writing to Brian Clough,to remind him that when Nottingham Forest were on t.v. they were guests in his front room, and that they should refrain from spitting, as it was akin to spitting on his carpet.
If I remember correctly, Cloughie's letter in reply
was quite charming.
I didn't see this match last night; please tell me Ryan Giggs received an ovation from the Chelsea supporters as this would go a long way to restoring my faith in football...
If you think Rooney is bad
You should've seen David Navarro (of Valencia CF) last weekend. He elbowed Fernado Llorente, before falling to the ground holding his face, to suggest that it'd been an innocent clash of heads. In darkly comedic fashion, Llorente - bloodied, and having had his head stapled back together by the physio - was on his feet and walking off before Navarro had even awoken from his faux-stupor.