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Old 21-06-2014, 21:04
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They'll be back for the Euros, desperate to scapegoat anyone if England lose.

Goals will be irrelevant, qualification (if achieved) will be irrelevant. They'll come to discuss the really important football matters in the football forum, like the players going on holiday with the family, tattoos, adverts, and how the players haven't apologised to them personally after a defeat.
France should make a giant French shirt for the Eiffel Tower
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Old 21-06-2014, 21:04
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They'll be back for the Euros, desperate to scapegoat anyone if England lose.

Goals will be irrelevant, qualification (if achieved) will be irrelevant. They'll come to discuss the really important football matters in the football forum, like the players going on holiday with the family, tattoos, adverts, and how the players haven't apologised to them personally after a defeat.
And don't forget what food are we eating while watching the matches.
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Old 21-06-2014, 21:25
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If the England players didn't try or care then I think there's an argument to be made about endorsements and commercial activities, but I don't think that's the case. They did their best but weren't good enough for a multitude of reasons, that's the way it goes but Rooney and Hart appearing in adverts has no relevance.

Football is a lucrative and hugely popular sport so I don't see why the top players shouldn't be able to take advantage of that, provided it doesn't have a detrimental effect on their game or the sport in general of course.
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Old 21-06-2014, 21:26
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The stupidity bar keeps being raised....
english players are so overrated. look at ghana now doing well against germany. england would lose 4-1 again to them
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Old 21-06-2014, 21:30
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You simply have no idea about football
Obviously a Liverpool fan is going to say that.

Gerrard handed Suarez two goals on a silver platter. He gets an incredibly easy ride when England fail. He cost Liverpool the title in May and now cost England getting out of the group in June.
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Old 21-06-2014, 21:57
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As a few posters have already stated, he shouldn't really need to apologise.


Im a Man United supporter yes, no raw nerves with me, I would defend anyone if I felt the need to, I defended Steven Gerrard the other day as well when he was getting slagged off.

When all you are doing is bitching about Rooney post after post, it becomes a tad tiresome.

Get the picture.
Is this you defending Steven Gerrard?

Steven Gerrard has been shit tonight.
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Old 21-06-2014, 22:20
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As a few posters have already stated, he shouldn't really need to apologise.




Is this you defending Steven Gerrard?
That was in another thread, from the first match I defended him, the second match on Thursday yes he was poor.

Don't try and pull me up.
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Old 21-06-2014, 22:30
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That was in another thread, from the first match I defended him, the second match on Thursday yes he was poor.

Don't try and pull me up.
No worries.

Oh, and I wasn't pulling you up, just asking a question.
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Old 21-06-2014, 22:32
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I guess he didn't give a shit when scoring the goals that got England to Brazil.
and if he did give a shit there'd probably be a thread about it.

Wazza, has a dump,the shite hawk. Discuss.

There's probably less nonsense going on at Stonehenge tonight than there is on here lately.
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Old 21-06-2014, 23:09
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If Wayne Rooney was genuinely sorry then what's stopping him from donating 3 months wages to developing grassroots football in England? At least a gesture like that would do something to help England's chances in the future. But of course he won't do that and his words of apology are about as worthless as his performances on the pitch.
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Old 21-06-2014, 23:12
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He usually gets an extra £100k a week after each failure so he'll be quids in! Messi & Ronaldo must shudder when appearing in the same ads as him!

Credit to his agent for getting him these unbelievable deals!
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Old 21-06-2014, 23:13
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If Wayne Rooney was genuinely sorry then what's stopping him from donating 3 months wages to developing grassroots football in England? At least a gesture like that would do something to help England's chances in the future. But of course he won't do that and his words of apology are about as worthless as his performances on the pitch.
I fully agree. That would make all the difference, and we'd definitely win the World Cup next time.
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Old 21-06-2014, 23:15
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He usually gets an extra £100k a week after each failure so he'll be quids in! Messi & Ronaldo must shudder when appearing in the same ads as him!

Credit to his agent for getting him these unbelievable deals!
Proof that you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

Brilliant.
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Old 21-06-2014, 23:30
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The stick Rooney has received for our World Cup disaster is embarrassing to read. The problem is that the media have built him up to be a world class player when he isn't one. Then the public expect him to do something like Messi did today and when he doesn't they go mad. He was one of Englands best performers in both the games. Henry and Seedorf both said that for 60 minutes he was Englands best player against Italy. Only our own slag him off in such a manner

He isn't the messiah and he is a very naughty boy but he was one of our better players in this tournament. He is getting a lot of stick purely because he is Englands poster boy and highest paid player. None of these two things are his fault.

Beckham got similar stick in 2006 simply for not being as good as people thought he was
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Old 21-06-2014, 23:32
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Why are people obsessed with players giving their club wages away when they don't perform as expected for the national team?
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Old 21-06-2014, 23:45
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Why are people obsessed with players giving their club wages away when they don't perform as expected for the national team?


People just want the players to suffer in some way because they are upset. Why people blame the players for the money they get is totally beyond me. If someone offered you it then you would take it. There is a lot of raw emotion around to be fair but some of the comments being made are so ridiculous. It just sounds like children saying "If we don't win then I will scream and scream and scream"

There are huge problems in the English game. Wayne Rooney not giving his money to a multi million pound corporation such as The FA is not one of them
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Old 21-06-2014, 23:51
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I've said elsewhere, all current, eligible, English players should retire from international football.

It's just not worth it. We have a massive population of clueless idiots who always shout the loudest, during an international tournament. These are the same people who bleat about footballers' wages at any given opportunity, and pay little attention to club football. They also have seen none of the qualification process.
As angry as I was by our inept performances , I am far more saddened by the bleating of our public. Even the media on the whole have been pretty level headed this time around.

I was laughing at the reaction of the Brazil fans after their draw with Mexico. Their fans were still confident, their media criticised the performance is a measured way and nobody is panicking. If that was us in their position half the country would be burning effigies of Wayne Rooney
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Old 22-06-2014, 00:56
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I think the criticism of Rooney himself is actually misplaced.

It's not Wayne Rooney who's been telling us he's the world class saviour of English football - it's the media and pundits in this country. They hyped the crap out of him before he even kicked a ball for Everton in the premiership and it's been that way for his entire career. Every time he does anything at all for his club, the pundits go nuts over it like we have just witnessed the equivalent of Maradona's second '86 World Cup goal against England.

There's no doubt at all that he's hugely overrated and next to the true greats in modern football, he is decidedly average, but he genuinely is one of the best English players around today. In the league he looks decent enough, but the fact is he can't deliver the goods at international tournament level because he simply isn't as good as the British media make him out to be.

It's unfair to blame Rooney for our terrible performance at this World Cup. He's created a goal and scored one in two games, so all in all, he's one of the few players who can say they made a positive contribution. Sure, he looked poor at times, but the entire team were poor - particularly our defence, which was absolutely dreadful.

If you want to have a pop at anyone over Rooney, have a pop at the clowns who have overrated and overhyped him since he was a kid. He could never possibly hope to live up to it.
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Old 22-06-2014, 01:04
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The only thing about the apology that bothered me is that it looks weak. If they tried their best then no need to apologise.
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Old 22-06-2014, 01:10
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He'd probably get more of a kicking for percieved arrogance
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Old 22-06-2014, 02:53
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If Wayne Rooney was genuinely sorry then what's stopping him from donating 3 months wages to developing grassroots football in England? At least a gesture like that would do something to help England's chances in the future. But of course he won't do that and his words of apology are about as worthless as his performances on the pitch.
I think at this point, he should just do like a samurai and open up his belly with a big ass sword on national TV. Only then can he be forgiven for the warcrimes.....oh thats right he was involved in a football game....

If he said sorry I would lose any respect for him whatsoever as a human being. This is sport, sometimes you win, sometimes you don't.
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Old 22-06-2014, 03:20
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Rooney should do the decent thing for once and retire from international football.
WIll you desist from your incessant need to start the thread of practically every World Cup match?

So why is everyone defending him, a player, that was meant to be World class, didn't bother yet again apart from a easy goal and one great pass, will be counting his money, while England fan's who paid a lot of hard earned money to go out to Brazil, come home after the mess that is the England Football team,
No way should he ho adverts at this stage, if so give the money to a charity, when did to fail become so money making..

Hope as other's have said, he hang in the towel for England, give other a chance who really try hard and care.
What a load of absolute shite.

England have scored 2 goals, he has played an integral part in both of those goals for a reason.

Gerrard should be the only player to come out and apologise. His mistake cost England the game nobody to blame but himself.coward.
It was far more the centre halves to blame than Gerrard. Any football fan would know that.

to appease british hooligans and continue to fool people into thinking he's a world class player when of course he is not
British hooligans? Yet another load of shite.

Why are people obsessed with players giving their club wages away when they don't perform as expected for the national team?
Idiots will always be idiots.
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Old 22-06-2014, 05:56
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He doesn't owe me an apology.
I believe that he tried his best and he was actually one of the players who did the most for our team in this World Cup.

I agree with the people who said that he has been vastly over hyped by the media and this simply isn't fair to him. Like many of 'The Golden Generation' they had been made out to be virtual supermen, who were 'world class'. This is the media saying this, not them.
He's a great player for the clubs he's played for, and it's not his fault that he didn't live up to the expectations people invested in him.

So no complaints from me. England as a team just aren't good enough yet. You have to accept that and move on.
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Old 22-06-2014, 06:06
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Why are people obsessed with players giving their club wages away when they don't perform as expected for the national team?
No, but give the huge amount he made on World Cup advertising, to help new young footballer's then we would believe he really cared about England, Beckham did!
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Old 22-06-2014, 08:15
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No, but give the huge amount he made on World Cup advertising, to help new young footballer's then we would believe he really cared about England, Beckham did!
You are still going on, dear oh dear you sound like a broken records that needs throwing out,
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