Did Rooney win the PFA award? Really?
For some reason I've completely forgotten the results, laughable if true, while the OP comes across as.... odd and I don't think Drogba was ignored due to racism, he was signiifcantly better in every single area of his game than Rooney.
Better in midfield, better closing down players, better defending from the front and better defending at corners and things where he's immense. His passing/vision/playmaking put Rooney to shame, who spent the majority of the year finding simple passes quite hard to make. THe finishing goal scoring as said, Drogba scored a lot of great goals, from anywhere in any situation, Rooney did very little throughout games.
Rooney was like RVN, good, got goals but uninvolved for huge parts of games and could realistically be replaced by a dozen similar players, Drogba was Henry at his best, running games, bullying defenders(more with strength than pure speed, but defenders were utterly scared of both), dropping deep, creating chances for everyone, scoring from anywhere, freekicks, anything, just a massive influence on a team that also won the title.
ROnaldo though, not even close to over rated, scored a little less in the league than Messi, but had a big goal scorer ahead of him and a bit of a flop team around him, while Messi is in an established side with quality all around and he was the focal point. In a more established team with better players Ronaldo has moved up pretty significantly since last year.
Rooney, horribly over rated, if he was African/French/South american/anything else most people would have said great but lucky year, absolutely useless this season, never in a million years would he have won a PFA type award, he's never been a world class striker, he's never been a world class forward, he's never been a world class playmaker, nor a world class midfielder.
I've said this a million times before, throughout his career he's played the fox in the box, the winger, the wanna be Scholes midfield playmaker(but does this by dropping WAY too deep which leaves a striker missing upfront), the harrasing forward. But he's still after 5-6 years, yet to specialise in a single role all season long, whenever given a role, he wants a different one. When he was a deep lying forward he wanted to be the man that got goals, when made a lone striker he drops back into midfield, the only position I've seen him comftable in was left wing, he was happy getting the ball and running forward, hard, thats what he does best, its the only time I've seen him influence games consistantly and use the strongest part of his game every game all game long and not spend the entire game trying to be someone else.
Theres potential for him to get back to his best, game dominating self, but he needs a single role, and its not tap in artist for me.
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