Sunday 13th February 2011.
By Matt Bowring
The day after the Manchester derby. A game that many City fans declared the day that will show the rest of the Premiership that they really are title contenders and yet I’m sat here writing this with the blue side of Manchester still title pretenders. A little harsh I hear some people cry as City after all played well and that is my point.
Manchester City played well and lost 2-1, Manchester Utd did not play well and beat them. By no means was it a bad Utd performance but it was way below their best and the standard that many have come to expect.
The first half was far from a classic encounter and after 4 minutes Silva should half put the blues a head. One on one with Van Der Saar, he shot wide of the far post. City continued to have the best of the ball, although never really looked like scoring.
Against the run of play, the Utd keeper went long ball, a small flick by Rooney, an inch perfect pass by Giggs, a glorious first touch by Nani, before slotting it past the on coming Hart. 1-0 after 41 mins.
The second half started much the same as the first, City advancing and not looking capable of scoring, although playing well. They eventually get a lucky break, a shot from Dzeko, deflecting off Silva’s back and squirming into the far side of the Utd net. Silva and Dzeko are claiming it, and in my opinion, it has to go down as Dzeko’s.
So with it all to play for at 1-1, Utd bring on Berbatov in a hope to get the all important winner and yet another victory over the so called “Noisy Neighbours”. Wayne Rooney is again having a shocker, with every second touch of the ball being a tackle. I don’t think he has played a decent pass for the entire game.
Nani has the ball out wide and whips in a decent looking cross. Rooney finally gets out of Kompany’s pocket, launches himself into the air, spins, summersaults, does a little twirl, then from out of nowhere, his right boot connects and the ball fly’s into the top corner.
Where did he learn to do that? This is a guy that for the last 9 months has been unable to score (on the pitch), unable to even pass the ball let alone kick it. Yet he has just produced a strike like that. The papers this morning are saying…
“That is why he is worth 200k a week”
“Goals like that define history”
“Only a player like Rooney can score that kind of goal”
What a complete load of rubbish!
Firstly, nobody is worth £200k a week, NOBODY. The Prime Minister gets about £140k, a year and he runs the country. When Wayne went public just before Christmas saying he wanted to leave as Utd lack ambition, what Sir AF should have done was stick the ungrateful, spoilt brat in the reserves until he realised that to be part of Man Utd, who are one of the top 3 clubs in the world, is a honour. Instead of that he gets an absurd pay rise that will see him earn in the region of a £1 million a month. Then all of a sudden, he says this is the greatest club in the world and that he never wanted to leave. No Wayne, it’s not about the money is it?
For the papers and pundits to come out and say that the goal yesterday proves he is worth the money is plain and simple, stupidity.
If that is the case then I know several builders that should be earning the same. I spent many years playing lower league football in my late teens, early twenty’s. I have seen goals like that so many times, in fact I’ve seen better and I’m sure that many of you reading this have too. Granted, Rooney’s’ was a great goal, but let’s not get over excited by it. I think it is just because he is at a big club that everything he and the team does is so brilliant. Plenty of other goals scored by the, lets say, unfashionable teams go unnoticed.
As for the person saying “Goals like that define history”, Oh come on, what history teacher did you actually have? The goal will be rewound time and time again, yes only if you have absolutely nothing else to do.
Wayne Rooney scored a goal that was a bit different, it was something that we don’t see week in week out like the do in La Liga. To say that because of that goal, Rooney is well worth the ridiculous money he gets in every pay packet is blind thinking, the sort of talk you hear in a pub after 10 pints. Considering he has contributed nothing at all this season, well not in football terms, he is lucky to even be at the club, lucky to have his life style, lucky to have anything at all.
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