But this is precisely where your reasoning (as I take it - I could be wrongly interpreting it, of course) escapes me: It was Fergie himself - the offended party, as it were - who made the call at the end of the day: He decided that Rooney was an important enough cog in the machinery to keep him. So - was he wrong?
I don’t quite get it: Rooney made a move, Fergie made a move in response - and on the face of it the whole affair turned out well enough. Rooney did very well for us for a good while after the incident in question - so Fergie’s decision, as a managerial call, seems to have been the right one. Does it matter, then, that Rooney acted selfishly (as you put it above)? To me, it doesn’t. I don’t expect footballers to act in any other way - if they don’t act selfishly when it comes to contracts and money, it’s an unprecedented bonus.
Anyway, I think this subject is exhausted as far as my contributions are concerned. My basic stance remains this: Do I approve of Rooney’s actions? No. Do I really care, though? No. He’s a football player - what he does or doesn’t do on the pitch is pretty much all that matters. In a football sense, Fergie’s call stands up to scrutiny - that’s all I’m interested in.
