Only ever had one good tournament and that was he's first one when he was 18.
Got 4 goals which I think ended up being he's total for all the tournament's he played in.
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Got 4 goals which I think ended up being he's total for all the tournament's he played in.
This really is beyond a joke though, for all the success Rooney had at club level with Man Utd, he was mostly a failure with England, he may be the record goalscorer, but it's a very deceptive record, at least 95% of his goals came in friendlies or qualifiers against lower tier opposition.
I'd need to double check it, but he only scored something like 6 goals against what could be considered at the time he played them as "top tier" opposition, and they were all in friendlies.
His major tournament record, especially in the World Cup was woeful, it took Harry Kane one game to better his record in that competition.
I'd need to double check it, but he only scored something like 6 goals against what could be considered at the time he played them as "top tier" opposition, and they were all in friendlies.
His major tournament record, especially in the World Cup was woeful, it took Harry Kane one game to better his record in that competition.
That's wrong.
But you're right that Euro 2004 was his best tournament. We really should have won it.
Seems to me this is purely about the FA chasing money from the expanding football market in America - Rooney just happens to have the profile over there to facilitate it.
I don't see the problem. Even having an international is farcical and pointless so why not just play all the 'legends' and let Kane and co rest.
Never forgave the ugly little scrote for his criticism of the England fans that had travelled all the way to South Africa to watch him and his mates barely raise a sweat. Next to useless when it mattered for his country.
Pretty exciting USA Team.
McKennie is excellent in midfield (Dembele-like) and Pulisic and Weah are very highly rated young players. Green was supposed to be the next big thing and played for Bayern Munich at one stage but things hadn't quite gone as they had planned.
England should still win but American fans should be excited for their future
No matter who wins, there are excellent youth talent on both sides of the field that both countries should be excited for. Will be a good game.
If Dele (or Dier, Kane or Winks) suffers a setback tonight I may have to get the next flight to London, go to the FA and fuck some fucking shit up.
Too late. You’ve seen Wembley right?
1 Jordan Pickford (Everton); 2 Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool), 5 Michael Keane (Everton), 6 Lewis Dunk (Brighton & Hove Albion), 3 Ben Chilwell (Leicester City); 4 Fabian Delph (capt; Manchester City), 8 Harry Winks (Tottenham Hotspur); 7 Jadon Sancho (Borussia Dortmund), 11 Dele (Tottenham Hotspur), 14 Jesse Lingard (Manchester United); 9 Callum Wilson (AFC Bournemouth).
Substitutes: 21 Alex McCarthy (Southampton) for Pickford 46, 22 Eric Dier (Tottenham Hotspur) for Chilwell 58, 16 Jordan Henderson (Liverpool) for Dele 58, 10 Wayne Rooney (D.C. United) for Lingard 58, 23 Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Chelsea) for Winks 70, 19 Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) for Wilson 79.
Well I suppose Southgate gave debuts or minutes to a number of players who aren't or haven't been majorly involved in recent games - Keane, Dunk, Chilwall, Sancho, Wilson, McCarthy, Loftus-Cheek - which has to be good news to get a bigger catchment pool for the squad, and I for one have been calling out for Wilson since before the World cup as a rotation option for Kane as England haven't had any goal scoring striker alternative to Kane for sometime (Rashford hasn't been scoring etc). And I guess the injury prone Sturridge did himself no favours in getting (or not) an England recall by being 'done' by the FA on betting charges. Equally he's enlarged the goalkeeping pool by playing McCarthy for 45 minutes.
But given its a friendly maybe he could have agreed a bigger subs bench with the US and tried out a few more players - after all why bring on Dier or Henerson as he's not going to learn anything new about them.
Only good news is that none of the Spurs players involved played the full 90.
A schoolboy report on Southgate might read 'Mark : B+ 'could try harder'
Substitutes: 21 Alex McCarthy (Southampton) for Pickford 46, 22 Eric Dier (Tottenham Hotspur) for Chilwell 58, 16 Jordan Henderson (Liverpool) for Dele 58, 10 Wayne Rooney (D.C. United) for Lingard 58, 23 Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Chelsea) for Winks 70, 19 Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) for Wilson 79.
Well I suppose Southgate gave debuts or minutes to a number of players who aren't or haven't been majorly involved in recent games - Keane, Dunk, Chilwall, Sancho, Wilson, McCarthy, Loftus-Cheek - which has to be good news to get a bigger catchment pool for the squad, and I for one have been calling out for Wilson since before the World cup as a rotation option for Kane as England haven't had any goal scoring striker alternative to Kane for sometime (Rashford hasn't been scoring etc). And I guess the injury prone Sturridge did himself no favours in getting (or not) an England recall by being 'done' by the FA on betting charges. Equally he's enlarged the goalkeeping pool by playing McCarthy for 45 minutes.
But given its a friendly maybe he could have agreed a bigger subs bench with the US and tried out a few more players - after all why bring on Dier or Henerson as he's not going to learn anything new about them.
Only good news is that none of the Spurs players involved played the full 90.
A schoolboy report on Southgate might read 'Mark : B+ 'could try harder'
In case anyone is interested.