Spot on.Originally Posted by Master Splinter
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.
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