Lagger
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Cheers for that.
You sound very much as if you have something against British players and an inability to consider them on par with foreigners, no matter their quality. Being more convinced by Balo friggin' telli than Bale pretty much sums your bias up. That's not rational, you clearly have something against British based players. Rooney for example has been twice the player Balotelli has ever been in his career, yet you'd probably prefer the latter just because he's Italian.
You're welcome.
Forget Balotelli for the moment, or any name really. A comparison wasn't really the point of tossing names into the post. The point is that - even if you think I may irrationally hate english players - some people are blinded by things like transfer sums, style and name rather than what is happening on the pitch. I don't want to diss Rooney on a United forum, really, but I have never ever seen a game from him that closely resembles what people like you are telling me. I don't follow the EPL as closely, of course, so I miss 90% of his games. But I'd expect when he plays against Bayern Munich, Dortmund in the CL; or Germany's NT in friendlies or anywhere... at some point I'd see ONE good game where I'd be legitimately scared of Rooney. So, either he's got the biggest Germany-complex in the history of England, which really would be a feat, or he just isn't that good when it counts. Which basically makes him just not that good, because nobody cares about Rooney being a champ against a lower third EPL team.
I like Rooney, because he embodies what pure football was about for me. Working class guys playing their game and working in it and being able to succeed in it. I actually like english players despite what you say. That's why I care enough to enter into a debate about english football with english football fans that could very well rip my head off if I did that in an english pub. Or perhaps not, who knows.