posted Mar 7, 2007

complete garbage to suggest beckham and rooney are similar "talenst".Rooney is undoubtably out of the maradonna,best,gascoigne genius mould and only time will tell which one of those 3 his career will mirror,if any.

Beckham was a nice guy whos achievements were similar to those of david platt,another player who practised tirelessly on a limited natural ability.

Must ask about the 1st world cup comment.We`ll never know but england,in most peoples opinion,were on top of argentina before beckhams childish petulance(not the last time wed see that)sent us down the swanny.

Lets hope rooney has a far better record when his international career winds up in 10 years or so,im pretty sure it will and he`ll have at least turned up in some of the big quarter,semi and hopefully final matches england will get to in his time,something beckham never did,alas.

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posted Mar 7, 2007

"Rooney is undoubtably out of the maradonna,best,gascoigne genius"

Now you are just deluding yourself.

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posted Mar 7, 2007

and seriously anyone bringing up that god dam greece match back in 1685 EVER again on these pages deserves to be shot,im sorry.

Im quite sure that if gerrard had been given 10 free-kicks in and around the box in a single match,he would have hit the target once as beckham managed.Its typical of him that he finally managed it in injury time,thus garnering maximum praise and being able to live off it for the next 5 years as youve just proved.

It continues to amaze me how any positive thing he ever does gets such widespread coverage yet other players contributions are swept under the carpet.For example if hed done what lennon did on sunday,it d be all "recall him now",LOOK AT THAT SKILL!","HOW CAN MCCLAREN IGNORE THAT!" but as it wasnt him,it gets mostly forgotten.PLus the usual suspects kkep saying he "provided" the most asists in the world cup against ecudor,trinidad or pitcairn island or whoever but never mention steven gerrard scored 2 more goals than he manged in open play-we can all play the spin game but no-one,i concede can play it like the beckham camp and his celebrity fans.

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posted Mar 7, 2007

"Rooney is undoubtably out of the maradonna,best,gascoigne genius"

Now you are just deluding yourself.


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wait and see.NO england player has had an impact on a tournament like he did in 2004 in recent years,certainly not beckham.Dont forget rooney is still YOUNGER than beckham was in france 98 and we were all told to forgive him his petulance coz he was still "a kid" at 23.Give rooney time and he could be our first world talent since gascoigne.

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posted Mar 7, 2007

Ever heard of Michael Owen?

Now *that* was an impact on a tournament.

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posted Mar 7, 2007

I'm sorry...Owen...Bechham???
Good players with good sponsors, but Joe Cole that's someone that effects matches and England will benifit from his return then more then either of them.

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posted Mar 7, 2007

joe coles got alot to prove still but i conced,if the "icon" had scored that volley against sweden in the wc(instaed of being utterly incompetent against a decent country yet again),wed NEVER hve heard the end of it.But ask any general fan about that goal and most have already forgotten it.Just imagine how many times it would have been replayed and brought up on these pages to the day if beckham had scored it,it barely needs thinking about.

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posted Mar 7, 2007

You are talking about the same Joe Cole that gives the ball away more times than he actually completes a pass to someone on his own team??? This is simple if Beck's is playing well then he should be in the squad if he isn't then fair enough. The problem facing Engald is that we have an incompetent manager who clearly can't get the balance of team right. i'll put money on he still picks Gerrard and Lampard together if they are both fit against Israel. I think we all know now this partnership doesn't work.........

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posted Mar 7, 2007

No I'm talking about the Joe Cole who's goal saved Englands butt last WC. I'm talking the Joe Cole who is the only player on the Egland team with creativity and dribbles round his opponents.

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posted Mar 8, 2007

i think that david beckham should play for england again because his form has improved imensley with real madrid he is the free kick master from jon jefferson - liverpool supporter

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