Welbeck MOTM. Another great move.
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Welbeck MOTM. Another great move.
Welbeck has done twice as much in the first 5 mins as that fraud Rooney in half a game.
Sturridge needs to be more direct - too much faffing about by him tonight.
Chambers about to come on.
I'm starting to think Baines isn't the best full back in the world after all.
But good luck to him of course. Coming on as FB
Delph looks well out of his Delph.
:getcoat:
Shame we couldn't have seen a whole match without that cunt Rooney and with Sterling playing centrally.
Sterling MOTM - according to Townsend. Probably should be Hart though as he's influenced the result the most.
Morten Gamst Pedersen.
Blast from the past.
Lambert :haha:
Commentators mentioning Gerrard - it really would be travesty if he came back.
Yes Clive that's exactly what England need to do.
Leave out the skipper.
1-0 FT.
Euros are ours tbf.
FT 1-0 - NO WAY for NORWAY as ROONEY BLASTS ENGLAND TO VICTORY!
Skipper takes matters into his own hands and drives England to a narrowly deserved win after hot and cold performance.
Wayne Rooney shows the way, Hodgson's skipper comes up trumps in tough night for England.
Rooney shines but where was Ozil? German booed by massive crowd as Wayne steals the show.
The magic of Rooney steers England into crucial qualifier on winning note.
That's the Wayne to do it! Super skipper shows Hodgon's boys the way.
Rooney, Messi, Ronaldo - who's the best?
:haha:
NQ :bow:
Wrighty rightly slating our Wayne - LOL
If they drop Rooney then put Sterling central and play any of Sturridge, Ox, Welbeck, Walcott around him then that would be worth watching. Get a few passers in the middle and kill the opposition with pace.
But Rooney is the captain now. Good thinking.
And here's the real thing:
LIVE: England 1-0 Norway - Captain Rooney fires home penalty for Roy's boys in first match since World Cup disappointment.
Here's the fat turd Martin Samuel's take:
"Captain Rooney saves the day from the spot but England lack fresh ideas in Norway win"
This is why England will never win anything, because an ignorant media decides who's undroppable and the manager can expect to get slaughtered if he doesn't go along with it. Gerrard and Rooney should have been out years ago but they media have kept them in place with their captain marvel bullshit. Maureen would be a good England manager because he'd tell them to fuck off and if any of them caught cancer he'd gouge their eyes out. The England team's aim should be to entertain paying fans, not pander to jolly seeking (so-called) journalists.
Mokbel's ratings:
England: Hart 6, Stones 6.5 (Chambers 81), Jones 6.5, Cahill 6.5 (Jagielka 84), Baines 6, Oxlade-Chamberlain 6 (Delph 69, 6), Henderson 6, Wilshere 6.5 (Milner 69, 6), Sterling 7.5, Rooney 6.5 (Welbeck 70, 6), Sturridge 6.5 (Lambert 89).
You see? Rooney was better than Ox and as good as Sturridge. Good job we have these journos or all we'd be left with is the evidence of our own lying eyes.
I think those are pretty sound ratings apart from the Rooney one. Put Rooney down to a 5 and I think that's fair. Being picky I'd probably bump Henderson up to a 6.5 and Cahill down to 6.
Welbeck was imposing when he came on.
His change of pace is exciting.
Gonna be a big big player for us.
https://vine.co/v/OuAiDbnjPt7
That's a find.
The morning after and Rob Draper has identified the main culprits - hint, Rooney is NOT one of them:
Quote:
Jack Wilshere and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain must prove they are more than youthful promise as England's young lions fail to impress once again
Fuckin hell :lol:
I watched an England game for the first time in ages last night (purely because the team seems to finally be rid of most of the old boys).
From what I saw, Jack was man of the match in the first half.....
Do these twunts watch the games anymore??
Rooney could take a dump in the centre circle and roll around in it for 90 mins and they'd still say he was the main man. There are 2 years ahead to dump these old has-beens and build a new team, Hodgson being the principle has-been. Get a decent manager in, let the kids get a few pastings as they grow together as a team and then take something fresh to the next tournament. This incredibly easy group shouldn't be wasted carrying garbage like Rooney. There's a real chance here if somebody has the balls to tell the journos to fuck off.
Laughably predictable.
Here they are, the superstars of the world. And there's our Wayne. "ROONEY, messi, ronaldo - Who's best?"
Plus that ONE game for England.Quote:
Made his debut for Everton aged 16 but announced himself with a spectacular goal against Arsenal five days before his 17th birthday. Two years later, he starred for England at Euro 2004 - scoring twice before getting injured in the quarter-finals - and then sealed a £30m move to Manchester United.
Sterling is 19 and tipped to become one of the world's best... but what were the current crop of stars doing at his age?
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/...SEPTEMBER_.jpg
:haha:
It's just a fucking joke.
It's beyond a parody of a parody of a parody now.
If Wilshere had given that very same performance in his breakthrough season, he'd be getting 8s and 9s from every media outlet. His passing, vision, balance and awareness was the best it's been in a long while. He was involved in everything. He played some lovely balls over the top, some great balls in for Baines to waste and linked up centrally with the forwards as he usually does. He gave the ball away once I think. Coming off the Besiktas game, Wilshere finally looks like he's got some of his composure and consistency back. But because it's fashionable to now rate him as the latest fallen star or only focus on him getting fouled, he won't be getting any credit until he scores a hat-trick against Argentina or until Henderson and Sterling are unceremoniously dragged off the pedestal the pathetic pundits are currently placing them upon.
And it will be a shame when Sterling is next in line to be shot down, because it would be excellent if this current crop of players are be allowed to develop together. Between the Liverpool players and Arsenal players, there seems to be genuine potential. The performance in the first half yesterday was maybe the most impressive from a footballing standpoint in a long while. Sturridge has improved hugely in recent months and (greediness aside) appears to have much more depth to his play. He, Sterling, Oxlade and Wilshere were mixing up their passing, playing quick one-twos, dinking balls over the top and generally displaying qualities that haven't been seen in an England team for a long time, if ever.
Rooney has been an absolute shit in his off-the-field and horrible on-the-pitch antics over the years, but I've always rated him highly as a player. But he has been simply woeful for England (and United outside an early-season burst last year) for a long time now. He just offers nothing currently and it's criminal that he will play and drag the team down when there's finally some semblance of a team coming together.
As N_Q has pointed out enough, it's absurd how he can score a pelanty and is England's saviour. These same people continue to hail Joe Hart as "world-class" while he's been throwing the ball into his own net for three seasons. They'll tell you Baines is a great left-back while the danger keeps emerging on his side and he struggles against every opponent. Most brilliantly of all, they mourn the loss of Gerrard and Lampard. The same Gerrard and Lampard who have been shown up to be truly worthless on the world stage for over a decade.
Until someone with character is allowed to take over the running of football as a whole and until they employ a manager with his own conviction, the same cycle of myopic, clueless and hopeless shit will continue.
Accurate ratings for last night:
Hart: 7
Stones: 7
Jones: 5
Cahill: 5
Baines: 6
Henderson: 7
Wilshere: 8
Oxlade: 6
Sterling: 8
Rooney: 3
Sturridge: 7.5
Subs: Welbeck: 10
I thought the first half was good too. Looked like a proper team, especially when Sterling started drifting into deeper positions and linking up with Wilshere. Wilshere is starting to play like his old self and I love watching him play. Never been about anything more than what Wenger keeps saying - he needs a proper run of games without a little injury. Wenger is managing him well and no doubt has a long term plan for him so we'll see how he gets on.