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from this it will have been gleaned that wayne rooney is white
― diouf est le papa du foot galsen merde lè haters (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
look at rooney tracking back here, brian. He gives away the foul, but he's everywhere, driving his teammates on. Fantastic stuff.
― at-zing-two-boards (darraghmac), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 21:56 (twelve years ago) link
"sergio aguero" "deceptively fast"About 50 results (0.14 seconds)
― diouf est le papa du foot galsen merde lè haters (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― boxall, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 22:05 (twelve years ago) link
no, tbf
― at-zing-two-boards (darraghmac), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 22:05 (twelve years ago) link
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
― diouf est le papa du foot galsen merde lè haters (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 22:08 (twelve years ago) link
No, the worst thing about Wayne Rooney is that he is Wayne Rooney. Voting Aguero.
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 22:23 (twelve years ago) link
yes well why does he cause such excitement for the execrable mowbray? because he is wayne rooney
QFD
― diouf est le papa du foot galsen merde lè haters (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 6 October 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
what the hell
― sonderangerbot, Thursday, 6 October 2011 23:02 (twelve years ago) link
always one troll
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 6 October 2011 23:02 (twelve years ago) link
You are probably all bald and jealous
― Moonbear Currency (admrl), Thursday, 6 October 2011 23:04 (twelve years ago) link
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
― parasitical brain-weevil (onimo), Friday, 7 October 2011 09:46 (twelve years ago) link
yeah agree with all of that
― diouf est le papa du foot galsen merde lè haters (nakhchivan), Friday, 7 October 2011 10:10 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― at-zing-two-boards (darraghmac), Friday, 7 October 2011 10:37 (twelve years ago) link
ppl hate him cuz he is white
― diop est l'armoire du foot galsen merde lè haters (nakhchivan), Friday, 7 October 2011 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
they see him and they think no, i'm not having that, where's that foreign lad what plays for city
― diop est l'armoire du foot galsen merde lè haters (nakhchivan), Friday, 7 October 2011 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akjGyPK92b4&feature=related
― diop est l'armoire du foot galsen merde lè haters (nakhchivan), Friday, 7 October 2011 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
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
― at-zing-two-boards (darraghmac), Monday, 10 October 2011 01:06 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― boxall, Monday, 10 October 2011 01:20 (twelve years ago) link
look forward to 433 with in-form bent tho, maybe even a two with defoe if he continues fine
― at-zing-two-boards (darraghmac), Monday, 10 October 2011 01:23 (twelve years ago) link
naah - try Young at CF w/ le numéro 10 de Lille behind him, Albrighton on the left.
― boxall, Monday, 10 October 2011 01:34 (twelve years ago) link
young on left workszamora middle, go with form agbonlahor right
Or, again on form, a two with defoe and bent with young lm
― at-zing-two-boards (darraghmac), Monday, 10 October 2011 01:36 (twelve years ago) link
Sturridge motherfuckers.
― Ravaging Rick Rude (a hoy hoy), Monday, 10 October 2011 01:36 (twelve years ago) link
sturridge/wellbeck is a good and true point
― at-zing-two-boards (darraghmac), Monday, 10 October 2011 01:37 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― boxall, Monday, 10 October 2011 01:41 (twelve years ago) link
u-27, maybe
― at-zing-two-boards (darraghmac), Monday, 10 October 2011 01:47 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Monday, 10 October 2011 10:01 (twelve years ago) link
good concise summation imo
― at-zing-two-boards (darraghmac), Monday, 10 October 2011 10:11 (twelve years ago) link
― at-zing-two-boards (darraghmac), Monday, 10 October 2011 02:06 (17 hours ago)
^^^^^^
― nakhchivan, Monday, 10 October 2011 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
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"?
???
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 10 October 2011 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― nakhchivan, Monday, 10 October 2011 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
ya
― at-zing-two-boards (darraghmac), Monday, 10 October 2011 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
but without making it 'a thing' y'know
― at-zing-two-boards (darraghmac), Monday, 10 October 2011 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
I don't think the tabloids made him white.
I'll back off now, I'm afraid all this is too meta for me.
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 10 October 2011 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
the rooniversity of ilx: ROO 101 -- introduction to roonology
― nakhchivan, Monday, 10 October 2011 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
just enough pigmentation to perform
― at-zing-two-boards (darraghmac), Monday, 10 October 2011 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― boxall, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 15:03 (twelve years ago) link
He's well up there in terms of assists. 2nd behind Fabregas maybe?
― Number None, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 15:12 (twelve years ago) link
1st in league goals.
Fabregas, Lampard, maybe Gerrard ahead of him in assists (with usual query re how assists are defined & counted)
― parasitical brain-weevil (onimo), Wednesday, 12 October 2011 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
No wait Cronaldo would have been banging them in for half of that. I'll go for 2nd and 4th.
― parasitical brain-weevil (onimo), Wednesday, 12 October 2011 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
pretty sure darren bent is the answer to every question about epl scoring recorde
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
for english players
I dunno, tho- purely on stats rooney looks pretty good. Thirty tapins from ronaldo runs/deflections doesn't hurt, being the focal point of united's attack doesn't hurt, y'know? Keane/berbatov got 20+ each one season without a midfield behind them, just sayin
― shite pele (darraghmac), Wednesday, 12 October 2011 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
clearly you haven't been paying attention to Utd's midfield in recent years
― Number None, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
young may be up there for assists but it wouldn't surprise me to see rooney one and one tbh, these are the effects of unwarranted pandering
― shite pele (darraghmac), Wednesday, 12 October 2011 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
You have to wonder what Rooney has on Ferguson though, when he could get the same return from Bent or Zamora
― Number None, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
utd's midfield? I'd be the biggest critic of it on ilx tbh, but if you had to describe it you could use 'inexorable' or, indeed 'unstoppable like a sneeze rather than a boulder'
― shite pele (darraghmac), Wednesday, 12 October 2011 15:36 (twelve years ago) link
maybe hes just a nice person to have around carrington, offsetting the negative juju impact of darron gibson loitering about stomping pigeons and being surly
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 15:37 (twelve years ago) link
It was 1st and 3rd actually - Fabregas and Young ahead in assists.
― boxall, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
'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.'
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 10:51 (eleven years ago) link
oh god, he's played right into your hands
― Number None, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 10:56 (eleven years ago) link
"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.
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 10:58 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― pandemic, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 11:01 (eleven years ago) link
"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."
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 11:01 (eleven years ago) link
I'd imagine
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 11:02 (eleven years ago) link
he's not quitting his fags so he wouldn't know.
Have the guardian quoted the entire serialisation in their piece btw?
― pandemic, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 11:05 (eleven years ago) link
good material, good material
― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 11:12 (eleven years ago) link
said his barber approvingly
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 11:48 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 11:53 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 11:59 (eleven years ago) link
"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.
― Einstürzende Joebarton (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 14:08 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Einstürzende Joebarton (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 14:12 (eleven years ago) link
ok then
yeah, no Irish person will believe that though
― Number None, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 14:39 (eleven years ago) link
yeah irish hip hop basically depends on the punning capacity of the gaelic spelling
― Einstürzende Joebarton (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 14:41 (eleven years ago) link
great techniq
― Stop Gerrying Me! (onimo), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 20:00 (eleven years ago) link
um (continues)
ue from Rooney on the run there
― Stop Gerrying Me! (onimo), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 20:01 (eleven years ago) link
why bump this of all the hundred or so twp threads
― every soulless meta poster is a ✰ (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
I had it bookmarked and couldn't be arsed searching and hadn't noticed the International friendlies thread had been bumped.
― Stop Gerrying Me! (onimo), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
fair enough
i was just concerned you were trying to reopen this question, which is no more a question than champagne or turps
― every soulless meta poster is a ✰ (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
"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.
― Windsor Davies, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
i had planned a bump before Aguero scored on the weekend
― Number None, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 20:47 (eleven years ago) link
that's what kolo toure said
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 22:57 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― birmingham six, guildford four, mumford & sons (darraghmac), Monday, 18 February 2013 02:22 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― r|t|c, Monday, 18 February 2013 13:18 (eleven years ago) link
Searingly accurate tbh
― lance armstrong will have been delighted (darraghmac), Monday, 18 February 2013 14:36 (eleven years ago) link
deems why the fuck are you expending psychic energy on mangy tato boy
― every soulless meta poster is a ✰ (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Monday, 18 February 2013 14:38 (eleven years ago) link
Surplus
― lance armstrong will have been delighted (darraghmac), Monday, 18 February 2013 14:40 (eleven years ago) link
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
― every soulless meta poster is a ✰ (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Monday, 18 February 2013 14:41 (eleven years ago) link
why do we all despise him then?
― Ballboy to Afghanistan (LocalGarda), Monday, 18 February 2013 14:43 (eleven years ago) link
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
― every soulless meta poster is a ✰ (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Monday, 18 February 2013 14:43 (eleven years ago) link
He's got a lumpen bestiality that screams formorian alright
― lance armstrong will have been delighted (darraghmac), Monday, 18 February 2013 14:43 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― lance armstrong will have been delighted (darraghmac), Monday, 18 February 2013 14:48 (eleven years ago) link
bump
― Number None, Sunday, 24 February 2013 15:50 (eleven years ago) link
still wondering
― the clodding of the american mind (darraghmac), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 14:58 (six years ago) link
TWP imploding is a big deal. To explain why would require a bit of a dive into internal far-right drama that you probably are better off not knowing, but I'll try to summarize.— Emily G, Cville. (@EmilyGorcenski) March 14, 2018
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 15:12 (six years ago) link
you discern the prompt for the bump correctly
― the clodding of the american mind (darraghmac), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 15:26 (six years ago) link