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| Quote Walt Mooney Fan Club="Walt Mooney Fan Club"My response was to the point you made! - and I ask again....what has the fact that Rooney plays for Man Utd got to do with him turning out for England? And what difference do his perfomances for England make to those who dislike Man Utd?
The analogy to Sam Tomkins, I feel, still applies. In all team sports fans can 'hate the club' (be they local rivals, the successful, the rich, or the arrogant!), but adore the individual when they turn out in 'representative' games (county, state, country).......as has always been, and will always be!!
I don't hate Man Utd - I'm, on the whole, 'neutral' these days over football (especially the over-paid primadonnas in the Premiership!)
For me, being a Leyther must be what it's felt like to be a City fan over the last thirty years.....living in the shadow of your record breaking neighbours, watching on year after year while they collect titles, go to Wembley, cups, gongs, open-top buses, etc, etc.........Imagine Whitehaven in '82 (where a win was needed to clinch the title) then multiply that pressure - tenfold - a hundredfold....and imagine that it was W*gan sitting in 2nd place, level on points!! Now THAT is what it feels like to be a City fan at the moment, so you can't blame them for being a bit giddy!! You also can't blame fans of other clubs offering up banter.....in the same way that Saints/Wire/Leeds/etc would (on "The Cherry & Sh[iy[/ite"icon_wink.gif if the scenario I'd just described had played out!!.....we all can but hope!!
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| Quote Cokey="Cokey"Sorry mate but that is still irrelevant to my
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| Quote Walt Mooney Fan Club="Walt Mooney Fan Club"OK - I give up!! What point were you making?
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Ok-Well you did slate him in one of your post,just like lots of other people do.So that goes with him and his club. But like i said everyone will be celebrating if he makes the difference in the euro champs. So I think the answer is ( 2 faced ). |
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I counted up the money United spent and City over the last two seasons, United 87.1 million, City was £230.75, a big difference.
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Ah well, I'd prefer a bright future than a glorious past any day!!
....and how many of the Utd team came through the youth system??! |
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| Quote Cokey="Cokey"Ok-Well you did slate him in one of your post,just like lots of other people do.So that goes with him and his club. But like i said everyone will be celebrating if he makes the difference in the euro champs. So I think the answer is ( 2 faced ).'"
I slated Rooney for holding his club to ransom for a massive pay rise, and for being ineffectual (along with most of his team mates) in the last World Cup - both statements factually accurate. I could also have a go at him for turning his back on his hometown club, and slating the manager who nurtured his talents ("Once a Blue - Always a Red"!!) - and, as I explained before, I will be entirely indifferent if he scores the winner in the Euro 2012 final, as I'll be supporting Ireland.......so please explain how that makes me Two-faced??
Ask yourself this - if Fergie (as has happened so oft in the past) had applied his usual 'No player is bigger than the club' rule to Rooney's transfer request....and he'd gone to City (in a Carlos Tevez stylee), and it was he who'd scored the goal, in the fifth minute of 'Fergie time' that had won them the Championship, or he'd scored the winner in the derby match, and run the length of the pitch (Adebayor style) to celebrate his goal in front of the United fans....then he turns out for England, and following a poor all-round performance, petulantly berates - live on TV - the fans who've spent the sort of money he'd consider loose change, and travelled thousands of miles, just for giving voice to their frustration.......would you honestly feel the same way about him in an England shirt??
And I STILL maintain that the example of Sam Tompkins (or any other player from a club you don't like) scoring the winning try against the Aussies is a valid one.......and it will be interesting to see what the reaction of RL fans would be if, as I suspect, the "Saviour of English/British Rugby League" ends up following his brother over to 'The Dark Side' before the next Union World Cup!! |
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| Quote Brad Fittler Fan Club="Brad Fittler Fan Club"Isn't it fantastic how Man Ure fans have suddenly become wonderful historians!!
Ah well, I'd prefer a bright future than a glorious past any day!!
....and how many of the Utd team came through the youth system??!'"
current team:
Paul Scholes
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