article on rooney by lawton in independent

Originally Posted by koppas

Who is there really to rival him? No one comes close.

John Terry?
Ricardo Carvalho? Probably the second best imo.
Puyol?

I've heard people say Terry is better than him and Carragher. It's embarassing, you actually hear journalist's/commentators/pundits etc say Carragher is 'world class'. All he does is launch it.

Originally Posted by Pop

Off topic:

How about that small ginger fella who plays for Utd whom it could be argued is better than both by far?

post of the day ..by a £#%&!ing mile

Carvalho is class, but he is a dirty, cynical @#%&!. Rio is so good he never has to foul or cheat. That is a true reflection on how good he is. I bet he gets 3 or 4 yellow cards a season, and half of them will be for giving ref's shit for poor decisions.

Rio IS our most important player.

The article makes too much out of the paparazzi etc - he may well have gobbed on a photographer but we all know how intrusive those £#%&!ers can be. Suppose this journo felt the need to defend one of his own but he made too much of it.

On the football side of things, what he's saying is nothing new, we all have known for some time that rooney was playing in positions that took away some of the creative parts of his game - even fergie admitted as much recently and even accepted some of the blame for that.

So overall i just dont see anything in there that gives us a perspective that we haven't already seen.

He is still only 22 anyway.