agüero vs rooney

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.

bump

still wondering

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

you discern the prompt for the bump correctly