Are people really, really blind enough to not see that one, Roy doesn't control the team and two, pundits are paid to hype players. They are now saying stuff like Rooney looks like he's played there forever, they are saying he's brilliant, he was absolutely awful. I also like they are playing his shot in slow motion to hide the fact that he tried a really basic pass into the far corner. The keeper randomly threw himself at it rather than walk over and pick it up.
MOTM tonight, dictating the play, grabbing the game by the scruff of the neck and driving everyone forwards....
THese people are literally paid to talk up Rooney because he's worth a lot of money to the FA, he plays because he's worth a lot of money to the FA.
For 15+ years England picks all the most popular players from the biggest teams and starts them in systems that don't work, playing poorly and even if those players are horribly out of form then the manager gets the blame, we get a completely different manager but exactly the same strange popular players get into the team in similarly compromised systems to fit the big names in. This is either a complete coincidence, or the manager is basically a well paid figure head for the FA who chose the majority of the squad/starting lineups.
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