Sir C;3484939 said:Well he could never emulate them because he didnt come up through the academy, and as much as I love Rooney as a player you have got to admit that he is pretty damn thick and prone to bad advice... one of my friends' fathers is a sports journalist (Jim White) who regularly meets him and says that in person, unscripted he is actually so slow and simple he would possibly be defined as mentally retarded if he were not a gifted footballer. Pretty much everything he does is as a result of bad advice - look at the people he is surrounded by, his father is a bastard and his agent a former door to door vacuum cleaner salesman.
Best football journalist I've seen. You must be getting all these crazy insights on players