World Cup Games (Sat, 14 June 2014)

[Kenneth]

I don't know, I can't see the dropping Rooney thing. The other teams will all be rubbing their hands together. He's the most talented player we have without question. He plays in weird positions, gets doubled-teamed... What is it with our treatment of our most talented players - John Barnes, Waddle, we never played to their strengths. We'll never win another tournament with our system.

You've got to be trolling now. He's been bang average for club and country for years now. He scored goals for the best team in the league who created a chance a minute. All sorts of **** has scored buckets for them over the years. He has done nothing to warrant a comparison with Barnes. The whole Rooney being world class thing should have blown over in about 2006.

[Chris]

Who is in the England team?

Steven Gerrard can do things with a ball Rooney can only dream of. Ignore the Manc hype machine, Stevie might be past prime but he's got much more talent, ability, whatever you want to call it than Rooney has ever had. Sterling, Sturridge on current form aswell.

[Leyton388]

Sturridge and Sterling are 10 times better than that waste of space. If he's not playing up top he has a bitch fit and does **** all but he's not good enough to play up top ahead of sturridge.

Steven Gerrard is Englands best player by a country mile.

[Venton]

You've got to be trolling now. He's been bang average for club and country for years now. He scored goals for the best team in the league who created a chance a minute. All sorts of **** has scored buckets for them over the years. He has done nothing to warrant a comparison with Barnes.

For England, are you serious? Barnes, apart from one or two games, was **** for England. Any why was that? Because we have a style and set up and pisses over proper talent in favour of gut-busting blood and thunder.

I've said for years that the problem with English football is the style of football demanded by the fans. Up and down like a fiddler's elbow, no proper style or talent. And then we're amazed when we lose in the internationals. Who are our world class talents now?

[TheElephantMan]

Name me another forward who is as good as him then. Show me how many have scored anywhere near as many goals in recent times. Who'd you put in there in his place. The decent teams wouldn't even bother marking them out.

Come on stop it now.

[Kenneth]

I've said for years that the problem with English football is the style of football demanded by the fans. Up and down like a fiddler's elbow

He was at his worst under fabia capello in 2010 who definitely didn't play like that.

[Venton]

Come on stop it now.

Noting you've got nothing to come up with there. You're mimicikng the typical England fan, not understanding anything about the game and booing the best talent we have. Remember when everyone was booing Barnes at Wembley whilst playing for us? And he was a lot ****ter for England than Rooney has been.

[Chazza]

The ball in for the equaliser was brilliant.

[Kenneth]

The ball in for the equaliser was brilliant.

It was a very good cross. Sterling did at least two similar, and Johnson did one, but nobody pushed to get on the end of them.

[Venton]

He was at his worst under fabia capello in 2010 who definitely didn't play like that.

I'm not entirely sure what you are saying here, we were terrible under Capello. I understand you don't like Rooney but who would you put there? The system is set up for the most talented to fail.

[Leyton388]

If Rooney is our best player we are ****ed

[Chazza]

It was a very good cross. Sterling did at least two similar, and Johnson did one, but nobody pushed to get on the end of them.

With their weaker foot?

I don't get all the Rooney bashing to be honest but there you go.

[Venton]

It was a very good cross. Sterling did at least two similar, and Johnson did one, but nobody pushed to get on the end of them.

Rooney looked up and saw Sturridge coming in and put it right there. It was deliberate, not a shot of hope.

I know I'm coming across as a Rooney apologist but I genuinely think he's the best talent we have and I've seen us **** all over our talented players with our **** style of play for 30 years and it ****s me off big time.

[Venton]

If Rooney is our best player we are ****ed

That's my exact point but you don't understand it.

[Kenneth]

I'm not entirely sure what you are saying here, we were terrible under Capello. I understand you don't like Rooney but who would you put there? The system is set up for the most talented to fail.

Capello has the highest win percentage of any England manager, ever.

I'm not going to defend Roy's tactics, but when a player walks off as the worst attacking player on the pitch then it's not the system that makes him ****, it's the player.