agüero vs rooney

ha you fuckin clown what whimsy takes you?

talking points or stfu

rooney is powerful

Rooney runs all over the pitch. I've seen him clear off the line and still be part of a counter.

Right now Aguerro is golden.

career g/g 0.44 vs 0.45

'Mark' would be an improvement on any/all of Rooney's nicknames

sort of wanted to poll silva vs rooney for is always polemic to compare differents

instead u get this

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_is_Wayne_Rooney_so_fat

rooney has great aggression and desire, you can see it in this next clip

if you post CCTV footage from a brothel i'm hitting the SB

look at how hard he's hit that, trevor! He just gives you that every time, he wallops it. Incredible stuff.

"wayne rooney" "deceptively fast"
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from this it will have been gleaned that wayne rooney is white

look at rooney tracking back here, brian. He gives away the foul, but he's everywhere, driving his teammates on. Fantastic stuff.

"sergio aguero" "deceptively fast"
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Talking point: if Agüero had been dropped into the Utd team as a starter before the CL final, with minimal acclimation time, would the result have been any different? Would the match at least have played out differently?

no, tbf

the worst thing about wayne rooney is the way guy mowbray says his name with markedly different intonation for each syllable, raising the disturbing possibility that he does the same with his own name

No, the worst thing about Wayne Rooney is that he is Wayne Rooney. Voting Aguero.

yes well why does he cause such excitement for the execrable mowbray? because he is wayne rooney

QFD

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what the hell

always one troll

You are probably all bald and jealous

I missed this poll so chalk another vote up to... Agüero, of course. He wins every category except hard working powerful Englishness.

Still think Rooney's much better than his detractors would have you believe, but not as good as the absolute shite that pours out of every English commentator's mouth about him.

Agüero also wins the scandalous relatives category

yeah agree with all of that

yep.

I don't think rooney's any better than his detractors would have you believe, it's just that his detractors are trying to provide a balance to the hyperbole from everywhere else. He's a form-dependent unpositionable powerhouse with flashes of brilliance and flashes of awfulness.

ppl hate him cuz he is white

they see him and they think no, i'm not having that, where's that foreign lad what plays for city

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akjGyPK92b4&feature=related

rooney's whiteness i think i don't let affect my judgement, i don't say i don't know it's there cos it's always there obviously, but i try to make a clear judgement on him as if he weren't white, iykwim?

indeed, in one sense, i suppose one can almost be thankful for his unfortunate pallor, in that one could scarce distinguish between him and the non-white pele otherwise

I voted SA but Capello is currently fronting imo b/c what nakhchivan said - WR still better 300% than any other cunt capello is likely to field - is otm.

look forward to 433 with in-form bent tho, maybe even a two with defoe if he continues fine

naah - try Young at CF w/ le numéro 10 de Lille behind him, Albrighton on the left.

young on left works
zamora middle, go with form agbonlahor right

Or, again on form, a two with defoe and bent with young lm

Sturridge motherfuckers.

sturridge/wellbeck is a good and true point

Have now caught up on most recent round of intl matches and Spain, Italy, France all looked v impressive, assume Germany was too, think England should just take an U21 squad for the experience.

u-27, maybe

No other England forward is anywhere near as good as Rooney, but that one person who voted for him over Aguero is the most digusting savage in the world.

good concise summation imo

rooney's whiteness i think i don't let affect my judgement, i don't say i don't know it's there cos it's always there obviously, but i try to make a clear judgement on him as if he weren't white, iykwim?

― at-zing-two-boards (darraghmac), Monday, 10 October 2011 02:06 (17 hours ago)

^^^^^^

Sorry but I have no idea what that even means.

- You signal he's white
- You don't want that to affect your judgement
- Yet you are aware that he is white
- But you try to make a clear judgement "as if he weren't white"?

???

deems is basically saying that when we discuss rooney's popular soubriquet 'the white pele', we refer largely to the pele element -- how does rooney relate to pele, his mythos, his technical ability, how does rooney improve upon his prototype?

however, what is missed is exactly the meaning of rooney's whiteness -- why he is white? did he become white? does his whiteness derive from or merely perpetuate the tabloid rooccult?

ya

but without making it 'a thing' y'know

I don't think the tabloids made him white.

I'll back off now, I'm afraid all this is too meta for me.

the rooniversity of ilx: ROO 101 -- introduction to roonology

just enough pigmentation to perform

06/07 through 10/11, Rooney was ___ in league goals and ___ in assists.

I guessed 2nd and 6th before looking it up, wrong on both.

street striker stuff bang otm tho

inner joe coles in a mourinho reality the story of pro football if not life itself

'stats don't lie' is a fair position to take, a safe position

'i've been watchin the cunt ten years and he's been shite most of that'

is the other, more daring stance

fyi i voted politically in this poll

fyi i voted politically in this poll

^ technical glitch just gave me twp's new sobriquet, 'the two roonies'

wayne rooney's gash

otm x 3

i like how twp tried to use twitter to pish-posh the rumours about him leaving, even though this time the paper talk was of ferguson getting shot of HIM rather than the other way round

don't really see it happening unless rvp properly bosses the #9, kagawa the #10 and ferguson wants to stay with a 4-3-3 & prefers welbeck in reserve/waiting

i'm sure he'd love to get shot of twp after the contract blackmail but he's too valuable atm

Dreaming longingly of the day that Fernandes and Hughes turn up at Carrington in matching sheepskin coats with big smiles and a shoulder-bag of used notes on the backseat. If only. I would love to see the kind of transfer policy those guys would pursue if they were a few rungs higher on the spending-power / prestige ladder.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2196938/Alex-Ferguson-warns-Wayne-Rooney-faces-career-long-battle-weight.html

'As a striker I need to work hard all the time. I need to be sharp, which means my fitness has to be right to play well. If it isn't, it shows,' he said in an extract of his new book 'Wayne Rooney: My decade in the Premier League' in the Mirror, who are serialising his latest autobiography.

'It would probably be different if I were a full-back. I could hide a bit, make fewer runs into the opposition half and get away with it.'

oh god, he's played right into your hands

"Early July: The first day back at pre-season training.

I’m like most blokes, I put on a few pounds after a holiday.

Even if I don’t train for a week, I put on two or three, but when I get back to Carrington for the first day of work, I’m in for a shock.

The scales in the club gym tell me I’ve put on a few more pounds than expected – seven. Seven!

Then I remember – I drank a few bevvies while I was away."

Extracted from My Decade in the Premier League by Wayne Rooney with a foreword by Sir Alex Ferguson. To be published by HarperSport on 13th Sept @ £20 ©Wayne Rooney 2012.

i do particularly like the Guardian sub-headlines

• Manchester United striker blames 'summer holiday bevvies'
• 'I struggle to walk for first half an hour the day after games'

which make it sound like he may be drunk the morning after games.

"When I’m out injured I know I can’t train or help the lads prepare for the next match so, typically, I get grumpy, a bit like someone would when they have to give up smoking or coffee, I’d imagine."

I'd imagine

he's not quitting his fags so he wouldn't know.

Have the guardian quoted the entire serialisation in their piece btw?

good material, good material

said his barber approvingly

Some people are lucky. I have had nights out with the jockey Mick Kinane, we've had three bottles of wine and he's still the same weight

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Sport/Pix/pictures/2012/9/5/1346844874745/Manchester-Uniteds-Wayne--001.jpg

Didn't realise someone had turned Wayne into an evil enchanted gnome during the summer.

"I'm a fidgety patient. I get snappy. I go quiet. I don't get fed up with the treatment or the physios and club doctors, I just want to get out there and play in the practice games like everyone else. The worst thing is that the rehab process messes around with my head. I feel left out at the club. I miss the banter and the crack in the dressing-room. As I'm not fit enough to play, I don't even get to spend the night in the team hotel with the rest of the lads before the next game. I have to stay at home, then drive into the training ground the following morning for some more boring recovery work.

The word has an unusual history; the English crack was borrowed into Irish as craic in the mid-20th century and the Irish spelling was then reborrowed into English.[1] Under either spelling, the term has great cultural currency and significance in Ireland.

ok then

yeah, no Irish person will believe that though

yeah irish hip hop basically depends on the punning capacity of the gaelic spelling

great techniq

um (continues)

ue from Rooney on the run there

why bump this of all the hundred or so twp threads

I had it bookmarked and couldn't be arsed searching and hadn't noticed the International friendlies thread had been bumped.

fair enough

i was just concerned you were trying to reopen this question, which is no more a question than champagne or turps

"That he has declined dreadfully in technical derringdo and competence is, we hope, not in question, nor that he has perhaps consciously (word loosely utilised tbh) reined in street striker wayne in order to bulk up the stats already referred to. benefit of doubt accrues to twp here, but it feels like the subjugation of a leviathan talent in the service of an unworthy cause, darth vader or w/e, rooney's comfort eating, opponent mangling and contract wrangles are akin to the fallen anakin's mindchoking of deathstar planning officials, a manifestation of protest from a trapped and frustrated former prodigy freak beast genius."

Don't remember reading this before, but fuck me - this is a hell of a paragraph.

i had planned a bump before Aguero scored on the weekend

that's what kolo toure said

No doubting the boy's effectiveness in the utd team, no doubting the team's effectiveness and the boy's role in that.

idk why the opportunity cost seems so high. it's haunting.

2:21 am. darragh's eyes flick open. beside him his missus lies still fast asleep. he'd had the dream again. he reaches for the smartphone.

Searingly accurate tbh

deems why the fuck are you expending psychic energy on mangy tato boy

Surplus

convinced irish ppl (real irish ppl) have a deep spiritual investment in twp as some sort of culchie noble savage wrested from his natural home in a gaeltacht hovel and thrust into a limelight that sears his skin and corrupts his soul

why do we all despise him then?

in him we see ourselves?

cast into some procrustean defensive winger archetype for a thousand years until the original sin is expiated and he is allowed to become the maradona we all know him to be

He's got a lumpen bestiality that screams formorian alright

Rooney has held the one ring of english footballing hope for too long, his lungs foam with a yellow cud and his eyes peer out wizenedly from cronish (no not that way) sockets. Gerrard and j cole (oddly) have dwindled in thrall and wilshere is not long for this darkling world.

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still wondering

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