Caporegime
- Joined
- 18 Oct 2002
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It genuinely amazes me that people don't understand this. the team is picked on popularity. Rooney was dire in every game, too many fans think only missing your passes makes for a bad game so people said he was good in the first two games and only actually bad in the game against Ireland. English fans need to learn freaking football, a pass in the wrong direction killing every attack is bad, when 90% of Rooney's passes hurt the team rather than helped, if that is passing backwards rather than forward, to the wrong player, or actually missing the pass doesn't matter. Every action, 'successful' or not can be good or bad for the team.
But when Rooney was playing he'd make a completely pointless 40 yard pass across the pitch which didn't help and fans would chant his name. I don't even blame the FA that much, fans chant Rooney's name and want him to play despite being utterly woeful all year.
I would say people who actually go on a forum to discuss football and who watch more than just one team and usually one league tend to know more, I would say this forum has a decent number of fans with above average knowledge and here 80% of people at least were saying Rooney should be in the squad if not starting and multiple people said he was good in the first two games.
Why would the FA not take him when the fans are essentially demanding it and it's financially positive for them.
England needs to completely ignore the fans, they need to take financial benefit out of the equation, they need to frankly hire almost any manager and actually give them control to build a team that can play together. That is what Wales have done where Belgium and England haven't. Both teams favour getting as many supposed stars on the pitch rather than putting the best actual team out for a given game.
Sven, Capello, the clown, Hodgson, all picked ridiculous starting teams over and over again. repeatedly in that time frame we had no DM, but Gerrard and Lampard with usually Lampard, a pure attacking central mid, as a more defensive midfielder. But this works out for the FA doesn't it, because fans decide to focus their anger on the manager rather than the FA, the same will happen again and the FA are insulated from the anger by the token manager.
