If Rooney wants to play, just move clubs…

If Rooney wants to play, just move clubs…

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Why doesn’t Rooney do a Jack?
While I agree with most of John Nich’s comments about the England captain – my own view is much simpler.

Rooney can’t play striker anymore and with the likes of Henderson and Wilshere to choose from, why choose an inferior player in an unfamiliar position?

I’m not Jack’s biggest fan but he’s left us go and get first-team football and is playing again. He’s an actual midfielder and has actually shown willing to take a step back to get his England place back.

Rooney, on the other hand, seems to think it’s fine for him to carry on as normal and worse still the media and pundits seem to agree.

For me, Rooney shouldn’t play for England again until he knows exactly where he wants to play. Look at the resurgence with Walcott since deciding upon winger over striker.

Like Jack, I also think Rooney needs to take a step down. Halving of his salary and a return to Everton would convince me he’s serious.
Graham Simons, Gooner, Norf London

Lest we forget…
There will be people who have a lot more to say about this than me, but Wayne Rooney is the most talented English player I have seen (watching since 96) including Gazza. He deserves to be dropped as he’s not the best England player in any position anymore but let’s not forget the player who burst on to the scene with that goal for Everton against Arsenal, that Euro 2004 performance and so many great goals.
Bernard MUFC

Booing Football365 and its politics
I was going to write in this morning due to my ever disgruntlement that this website is being less football and more the Canary every week after reading that Extra Mediawatch article. I understood the point in the extra Mediawatch to point out the buffoonery of Savage’s latest brain fart but why the need to go socialist half way through.

This not to mention the weekly moans about Brexit in the mailbox. It’s a football discussion website guys! Please go talk politics with your other delusional mates on Facebook and the Guardian.

Then we get that Rooney article and get the full Jez Co’ speech. Again this a a F.O.O.T.B.A.L.L website! What is the need. Also John Nicholson writes the same article every week, how can you not see this? Bet he has got more than 1k in his bank.

And talking of people being jealous of others being the reason Rooney got boo’d, one of your comrades states weekly that he has never had a salaried job! Well I and most of us have, it sucks but we do it, so stop rubbing our noses in it, so booooo.

Could it just be we boo’d Rooney because he player s**t, in an England side that played s**t, and he is the captain!

Football365, booooo.
Luke U

The mainstream media have turned up very late
Like one of those friends that you invite, but don’t think will turn up, then they do and they’re raging drunk and rowdy and accompanied by some weirdos you don’t like the look of, and they stay really late and don’t take the hint and they’re not even that close a friend anyway, and you only invited them to push the numbers and because you got carried away with clicking ‘add’ on Facebook, and now they’re opening every can of beer and not even finishing them and all you want is to go to bed and sleep and wake up late and spend the day in bed watching badly made Hollywood action films and eating pizza and drinking coke but right now you feel that may never happen because here is this annoying drunken b#stard. Know what I mean?

Just me?

Well, that’s what the Times is. Henry Winter’s article today entitled ‘Why it’s time to drop Rooney’ made me think I’d travelled back in time at least a year. Little late to the party there fellas. Underneath it…the words ‘The sharpest football analysis’. Now that just made me snortlaugh on the tube and the guy who was reading it looked up at me with a disturbed look.

I’m tired so this is probably not that funny. But it made me chuckle.
Alay (Rooooooooonneeyyyyy), N15 Gooner

Fed up of fact-allergic ex-players
In the wake of the Savage ‘GizzaGiggzyajob’ stream of consciousness, and the continued twaddle from Hoddle and others on Wayne’s Emperors New England Shirt performances, isn’t time that we start looking at the worth of ex-Premier League players as pundits and journalists? Wouldn’t we rather see the likes of the insightful, knowledgeable, trained pen-smiths such as Marcotti on Match Of The Day rather than a middle aged man with a twenty years olds hair like Robbie just pointing out what anyone with eyes can see?

Maybe, in the style of the PFMs tried and tested “we tried foreign and it failed”, we should collectively say “we tried monosyllabic ex pros and it failed”. I’m fed up of the mouth-breathing, fact-allergic gumps frankly. They’re blocking the way of decent, young British journalists or something.
Jae, Tunbridge Wells

Poor Savage
How dare F365 criticise Robbie Savage for his recent article on Ryan Giggs. Nobody knows more about Welsh footballers and teams than Robbie Savage. It makes me despair that he should have to prove himself as a competent pundit and journalist in order to receive the faintest of praise.

I guess you’d rather read articles by Paolo Bandini and Raphael Honigstein but what message does that send out to retired, multi-millionaire footballers? Have they ever won the Worthington Cup?

What does Savage have to do? Get a job at the Merthyr Tydfil Times reporting on division one of the Western League which he knows nothing about? No. Robbie has earned the right to voice his opinion through a regular article in a national newspaper without any prior experience or qualifications.

Robbie for President.
Tom, Bexley

Rejecting the clickety-clicks
Thank you Joe, AFC, Manchester for writing the email I’ve tried to write for about a year (and failed because it made me too angry to finish it). The only thing I’d add is that it isn’t just SEO, in fact, these days I’d argue it’s more about social media and ensuring people can read, judge and share an article without even having to waste time reading it. Welcome to the Twitter generation, one where a sentence is enough to get outraged enough to share spurious crap and ultimately generate clickety clicks.

…Bloody hell, you can tell it’s an international break when a mail the size of Joe’s gets published. Saying that, I don’t want to discredit the quality of the writing and it really was an interesting read.

In my mind, this shift towards a loud, click bait type of journalism is a product of the internet age. As the number of channels of communication increases, some (most?) journalists have chosen to adopt a mass market approach and move away from quality, in depth pieces towards a more soundbite style of writing. Given the popularity of digital communication, I’m afraid this will only get worse.

Ironically, this increase in channels also means that a much greater number of sites like this can exist, since anyone can set up a website and get their voice out there (whether it becomes popular enough to be heard over the noisy neighbours is another matter).
Dave, MUFC, Manchester

Frankly, that’s presumptuous
I don’t know if anyone else noticed the Frank Lampard article on the site over the weekend, but it was exactly the type of arrogance and narrow mindedness that we have come to associate with PFMs.

I love the fact that he is planning to take his badges, but ‘only wants the Chelsea job’. Why would he not try somewhere else first? He is living abroad in the US, why not start there first?

I can’t wait to hear all the gnashing of teeth from Chris Sutton and Robbie Savage when Chelsea next appoint a manager with 10+ years of top level experience over a complete novice.
Tom (can I have the Arsenal job, I was really good at something completely different), London

The point of Michael Owen
This video justifies his existence:

Watch it with headphones in a dark room.
Nicholas Smith

The best disallowed goals?
After last week’s mailbox idea of the ‘best worst goal’ it got me thinking of some of the best disallowed goals I have ever seen.

This Ronaldo bicycle kick which features a glorious assist from Deco’s shoulder. This finish from Liverpool legend Oussama Assaidi and this time that Nani did his best David Nugent impression all feature in my personal favourites.

Does the mailbox have any other gems to offer?
Richard (Lampard’s v Germany?), Limerick

Getting serious again…
Continuing on a theme from last week I thought it was worth mentioning that today is World Mental Health Day. The FA and some of their county associations are holding various events and workshops across the country from grassroots level up. I also managed to find this tournament in Bradford later this week which may be of interest to somebody.

The reason I mention this is a football-mad friend of mine took his own life days before this season started. I have struggled to maintain my usual love of the sport but know it will return partly due to the good work being done by people in and around the game. Apart from these events raising awareness for a much-maligned subject it shows the positive impact the sport and wider community can have. Yesterday at Cambridge United there was another benefit match for two local players who recently suffered life-changing injuries. Over 1,600 people attended which is amazing when you consider that these two were amateurs from further down the footballing pyramid. Signed Messi and Bale shirts were included in an auction to boost a fund for current and future medical needs that has so far raised over £100,000.

I know some of their ex-teammates and friends and the support they have had from the football community, including the local FA, has been overwhelming; their positive approach to their injuries for want of a better word has been inspirational. It just goes to show that football will continue to provide life-affirming moments on and off the pitch. If you stick with it there’s always something to remind you how fortunate we are to enjoy this beautiful game.
CP, Cambridge