I must have been recalling 2008, then. So, scored the winner in 2008... and top scorer in 2012 - not bad.
6 people scored 3 goals in 2012, its hardly a huge amount of goals in a tournament these days though he made a similar number of appearances he played less minutes than probably anyone else on 3 goals. Of course 2 of those were against ireland, one against an Italy who were dead and burried and out of this site.
As much as he amuses me these days 22 goals and those honours isn't bad for a player who's universally perceived to be a complete flop.
To think that the difference between 22 and 25 goals is the difference between being classed as a flop and winning you global recognition, countless individual awards as well as comparisons to players like Messi and Ronaldo
Wolves, Monteray(CWC), Leeds, Brentford, Middlesbrough goals in the cup, FC Nords, Rubin, Steaua, Shaktar, Benfica(there are more, I got bored) in Europe and most of his 8 league goals were Sunderland, Villa, Norwich, Newcastle, Reading...... infact the goal against Arsenal is probably his only goal against a basically non awful team in the league.
People score goals, it doesn't matter how terrible you are, Heskey playing at Utd, City or Chelsea WOULD score goals, because thats football, if you stand in the box for a team that gets the ball in the box, it will drop to you now and then.
Bale is creating and scoring goals all for himself, Torres isn't, Bale is scoring goals few if any other players in the world can score, Torres is scoring goals basically any striker in the world can score, and missing chances most other strikers wouldn't miss.
This is what makes Walcott crap, most of his goals are put on the plate for him, and I can't think of more than 2-3 in his entire time at Arsenal that any striker can score, while RVP was putting away chance after chance that most strikers can't score. It does not matter how crap you are, anyone physically capable of running a small amount, at a top team, would end up in the box and scoring a few goal.
People are mostly rating Torres on the chances he's seen missing rather than the chances he scores. He has missed stupidly easy chances, repeatedly, for 3 seasons, and 8 goals in the league is still pathetic for a guy on 200k a week and costing 50mil. Everyone misses chances no matter how deluded some fans get when the start talking about a dip in form because say RVP misses 5 chances in one game, thats completely normal. Its when you miss 5 chances in a game so often in a season you haven't scored more than 10 in the league for a few years, or when you can't get in the position to miss 5 chances in a game because of your poor play.
Torres has also appeared in 23 more games total this season including the summer, excluding the summer its still 18 games extra.
. His scoring record last season was 1 goal in just under 3 three games which isn't bad to be honest but it's his 8 goals in 36 league appearances that has let him down.
as I don't know what our system will be next season (I think we'll go for some sort of 3 at the back counter attacking hyprid thing)