agüero vs rooney

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.

He's well up there in terms of assists. 2nd behind Fabregas maybe?

1st in league goals.

Fabregas, Lampard, maybe Gerrard ahead of him in assists
(with usual query re how assists are defined & counted)

No wait Cronaldo would have been banging them in for half of that. I'll go for 2nd and 4th.

pretty sure darren bent is the answer to every question about epl scoring recorde

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

clearly you haven't been paying attention to Utd's midfield in recent years

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

You have to wonder what Rooney has on Ferguson though, when he could get the same return from Bent or Zamora

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'

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

It was 1st and 3rd actually - Fabregas and Young ahead in assists.

rooney is powerful

― at-zing-two-boards (darraghmac), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 22:48 (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

a powerful man, surely

take cron assists to rooney and rooney assists to cron out of those tallies i'd say he'd struggle fatly to make top ten in either

lol @ 'same' return from d bent, if a man u team including cron was bent wholly on getting our benty to the top of the asian market then he'd get fifty a season and he wouldn't need to fuck any magic grannies to do it

I don't think you "get" Ronaldo

I'm not sure I do either, but I'd like to.

Rooney is 1st for goals and 1st for assists, is my guess.

oooo get u

Assuming we're talking Prem only I've got Rooney > Drogba > Bent > Lampard > Ronaldo

Hah, I didn't see Boxall's post. Only semi-misplaced faith.

rooney- pandered to, top team throughout, also hateful, disloyal & fat
Drogba- injured, shunted around, noble
Bent- unplayed, unloved, underrated, unlucky. Midtable teams supplying him
Lampard- a fucking midfielder, somewhat pandered to, constant in top team, somewhat hateful, corpulent
Ronaldo- hasn't been around for a while, constant in top four before that, somewhat hateful, not fat, a fucking midfielder, somewhat pandered to?

real life lols at drogba being categorized as noble.

i would seriously pay money for a dmac rothman's guide to prem footballers presented in such a fashion tbh.
Bent- unplayed, unloved, underrated, unlucky amazing.

Rooney 75
Bent, Drogba 73
Tevez 69
Berbatov 68
Ronaldo, Torres 66
Lampard 65

obv Ronaldo had the best goals/season. Torres prob would've been top as well if he'd come over a season earlier.

not totally sure it applies to Drogba but injured, shunted around, noble could absolutely describe some if not most of my fave all-time players

man i'm bored/unproductive/unloved at work today

i would seriously pay money for a dmac rothman's guide to prem footballers presented in such a fashion tbh.

― pandemic, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 17:55 (45 minutes ago)

can't decide if a 4.4bn budget adjustment in december will leave me with less time for this stuff or leave me fulltime at this stuff, otherwise i'd be tempted tbph

I think the lack of consistent 15-20 goal scorers is interesting ... Rooney's 75 goals would put him behind Messi, Villa, Forlan and Kanoute in Spain, Di Natale and Totti in Italy, Gomez in the Bundesliga. Injuries probably a factor - maybe Prem managers also more likely to bench apparently out-of-form strikers?

Aguero is only one goal behind Rooney despite being 18 in 2006.

Cristiano scored the exact same number of goals 09-11 in Spain as 06-09 in England.

My office is very slow today.

playing for a much better attacking team in spain tbf

Also englishes defenders allowed kick fuck out of more skillful players innit

yakubu scored 69 goals in five seasons to 2k8

black rooney

fat white yak

http://www.mfc.co.uk/javaImages/3/d0/0,,1~2805763,00.jpg

rip

A list of all 100/5 scorers would be interesting. Hasselbaink had 104 from '97 to '02 despite changing clubs twice.

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.

bump

still wondering

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you discern the prompt for the bump correctly