Roooney's red card - implications?
What a tail.
Assuming a 3 game ban, that rules him out of the entire group stage of the finals. If we get a tough draw is it worth contemplating leaving him out of the squad for the finals altogether?
Better to have all your players able to make a contribution than to take one who won't be able to play until the knockout phase, if we even make it that far, and leave us a man short in the squad for the group games. There's every chance we could get an injury or two to a striker in the first couple of games which could really leave us struggling to get out of the group.
I'm old enough to remember England gambling on taking two top but unfit strikers to the World Cup in 1982, who were only able to play a short part in the final game, and it was a lack of goals that stopped us getting further.
Assuming a 3 game ban, that rules him out of the entire group stage of the finals. If we get a tough draw is it worth contemplating leaving him out of the squad for the finals altogether?
Better to have all your players able to make a contribution than to take one who won't be able to play until the knockout phase, if we even make it that far, and leave us a man short in the squad for the group games. There's every chance we could get an injury or two to a striker in the first couple of games which could really leave us struggling to get out of the group.
I'm old enough to remember England gambling on taking two top but unfit strikers to the World Cup in 1982, who were only able to play a short part in the final game, and it was a lack of goals that stopped us getting further.
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i could say he was told to do it but....................
This. :P
How dodgy does it look with the all the match fixing crap going on this week...
If only.
No need to panic over this and have the usual mass hysteria.
I looked for a thread on this game at half time and I was surprised that no one had started one.
If they get to quarters I am not so sure they will come out of the groups as the Euros tend to be a higher standard than the WC
well it was a sraight red card, so I'm guessing violant conduct so i'll be surprised if it's anything less than a 2 game ban, i. I think it's very unlikely it will be a 3 game ban. if it did turn out to be a 3 game ban then you have to to questioning whether Rooney. should even be picked for the squad.
England have no chance of winning anything under this current regime.
yes it is a red card and yes he is stupid for what he did , but thats is it was stupid, if you watch what he did , he said sorry to the ref after he did it , he knew straight away he did wrong. lets just leave him now, but no , its wayne rooney, so lets hammer him.
and jamie redknapp can f### off. he is so biased , as he is a liverpool fan.
if this was steven gerrard, or , any other player jamie would not be like this.
Oh right. Who did we draw in the groups?
OH PLEASEEEE. FFS he slags Liverpool off just as much. All he talked about was that the fans didnt give Woy Hodgeson enough time...but anyway this is off topic.
Don't forget his cousin is Lampard, so he is immune from criticism from Jamie.