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[Jon MW]

Incred Rooney !! Not since Trevor Sinclair have i seen such a perfectly executed overhaed kick.

lol

Looks good to me Boldielocks, reckon if i tried it 100 times id hit 99 airballs and 1 over the bar 

lol..fair point and I couldn't do it but it's not perfectly executed...great goal but a bit overhyped. Hell, it's not even Rooney's best goal ever IMO.

imo they're a bit like goalkeepers saving penalties - there is skill involved, but with just as much luck as well - looks good when they pull it off though and they get a disproportionate amount of praise for them.

[The Baron]

Incred Rooney !! Not since Trevor Sinclair have i seen such a perfectly executed overhaed kick.

lol

Looks good to me Boldielocks, reckon if i tried it 100 times id hit 99 airballs and 1 over the bar 

lol..fair point and I couldn't do it but it's not perfectly executed...great goal but a bit overhyped. Hell, it's not even Rooney's best goal ever IMO.

imo they're a bit like goalkeepers saving penalties - there is skill involved, but with just as much luck as well - looks good when they pull it off though and they get a disproportionate amount of praise for them.

Usually from armchair journos who've never tried an overhead kick in their life!

[Acidmouse]

Obertan and Bebe, worst ever Man UTD players?

[TheChipPrince]

Obertan and Bebe, worst ever Man UTD players?

I call your Beborbertan, and raise you David Bellion!!

[mondatoo]

Bebe was abs terrible I will be shocked if this goes the other way, he was ridic bad

[sovietsong]

Djemba Djemba?

[david3103]

Djemba Djemba?

so bad they named him twice - arrived at the club in the same summer as Kleberson, also a contender to be at the head of any list of SAF's bad buys.

Kleberson was supposed to replace Juan Sebastian Veron which in a sense he did


The current crop of second string players includes too many who lack substance. Obertan has had his chances, seems unlikely he's got anything more to show. Bebe? Can't see theres much there to deserve too many opportunities. Gibson - an enigma, i think he suffers, as does Carrick, from just 'not being Paul Scholes'.

All that being said, we have Park, Hernandez, Smalling, Valencia when fit, Owen, Carrick, Brown, O'Shea and errmmmmm 

[sweet potata!]

How did Shrek manage to get away with that elbow the other day? Its an absolute joke system the FA have.

MOTD shows that twattenburg clearly wasnt even looking at the incident and yet he's now coming out saying he saw it and was happy with his decision, so apparently you must be allowed go round  throwing stray elbows.

Then you have to listen to Fergie whinging that there will be a witchhunt because It's Rooney and  there was nothing in it. Fck off Fergie, such bullshit.

It was hard to ban Rooney with Chelsea and Liverpool on the horizon I guess.

[david3103]

How did Shrek manage to get away with that elbow the other day? Its an absolute joke system the FA have.

MOTD shows that twattenburg clearly wasnt even looking at the incident and yet he's now coming out saying he saw it and was happy with his decision, so apparently you must be allowed go round  throwing stray elbows.

Then you have to listen to Fergie whinging that there will be a witchhunt because It's Rooney and  there was nothing in it. Fck off Fergie, such bullshit.

It was hard to ban Rooney with Chelsea and Liverpool on the horizon I guess.

It's shocking isn't it

compare and contrast two similar incidents http://soccertvlive.blogspot.com/2011/02/video-rooney-elbow-wigan-wayne-rooney.html

[Josedinho]

They look similar at first but if you look closely you will see that one is against Michael Brown.

[sweet potata!]

I think  theres an obvious difference Brown and Gerrard are running towards the ball and Brown is turning round looking for stevie with his arm already raised he was just bet to it thats all that happened there. Where as Rooney was totally unprovoked and then you have the ref lying that he saw it when MOTD shows that he wasnt looking.

Whats your own summation of the two incidents?

[david3103]

I think  theres an obvious difference Brown and Gerrard are running towards the ball and Brown is turning round looking for stevie with his arm already raised he was just bet to it thats all that happened there. Where as Rooney was totally unprovoked and then you have the ref lying that he saw it when MOTD shows that he wasnt looking.

Whats your own summation of the two incidents?

They look similar at first but if you look closely you will see that one is against Michael Brown.

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This is a fair point.



My view is that United supporters will rationalise it in the same way that LFC supporters rationalised Gerrard's.

You say "Brown and Gerrard are running towards the ball and Brown is turning round looking for stevie with his arm already raised he was just bet to it thats all that happened there"

I say "McCartjy moves into Rooney's path to block his run towards the ball, Rooney defends himself against a bodycheck."

Both should be punished, Gerrard wasn't, I doubt that Rooney will be.

[boldie]

I say "McCartjy moves into Rooney's path to block his run towards the ball, Rooney defends himself against a bodycheck."

this is a beautiful line.

Chelsea fans can say; Ashley Cole was protecting himself from the intern's falling piece of paper so he shot him.

Rooney should have gotten a massive ban for his action there, there is no excuse....other than that he's Wayne Rooney, plays for ManU, the ref is a complete and utter spanner and the FA have no balls whatsoever.

[david3103]

I say "McCartjy moves into Rooney's path to block his run towards the ball, Rooney defends himself against a bodycheck."

this is a beautiful line.

Chelsea fans can say; Ashley Cole was protecting himself from the intern's falling piece of paper so he shot him.

Rooney should have gotten a massive ban for his action there, there is no excuse....other than that he's Wayne Rooney, plays for ManU, the ref is a complete and utter spanner and the FA have no balls whatsoever.

Did you read all of the post that you have selectively quoted from?

[boldie]

I say "McCartjy moves into Rooney's path to block his run towards the ball, Rooney defends himself against a bodycheck."

this is a beautiful line.

Chelsea fans can say; Ashley Cole was protecting himself from the intern's falling piece of paper so he shot him.

Rooney should have gotten a massive ban for his action there, there is no excuse....other than that he's Wayne Rooney, plays for ManU, the ref is a complete and utter spanner and the FA have no balls whatsoever.

Did you read all of the post that you have selectively quoted from?

Yeah, and I see you agree that he should be banned and were only saying it in response to the Gerrard thing...I just thought it was a beautiful, almost Ancelotti like line. "Our players are not out of control at all, they are all professionals and who hasn't made a mistake in the past?" is roughly what he said yesterday.

You're right Carl baby, except that we never shot anyone at work, you ball-less plonker.