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Lukazan

Ricky1985 wrote:
Lot of luck involved. Sometimes you catch it sweet and it flies in, other times it flies over the bar or you miss it all together.

Rooney pretty much said this himself in the after match interview.

Was a cracking goal. You'd have drowned in your own dribble if Wilshere had scored it. 😛

Ricky1985

Rooney shinned it. Haha, didn't notice it at the time, but just seen a replay after someone said he did on A-M, and you can see he shinned in good and proper. Still a great goal, just a bit lucky.

Gazza M

United were toilet again apart from Nani, Giggs and Smalling. Rooney was woeful apart from the wunder-strike. Credit to him for burying a chance like that in a match where he could barely control a 5 yard pass.

A word on Nani though - Unfortunately I think the Mancs have found their new leading light in attack. He's fast becoming the lynchpin in their forward line. He's still a selfish cunt, but he's a better all round winger than Ronaldo was in his time there imo. His dribbling and crossing make him a threat every time he's on the ball. Must stop him at the Emirates.

Burnwinter

Superb goal from Rooney, in terms of both quality and importance. Ricky it's all very well to point out he shinned it, but given his shin was a foot and a half above head height at the time I think we can forgive it.

Hate to say it but we could rue those two points at the end of the season.

Lukazan

Ricky1985 wrote:
Rooney shinned it. Haha, didn't notice it at the time, but just seen a replay after someone said he did on A-M, and you can see he shinned in good and proper. Still a great goal, just a bit lucky.

I noticed that on the replay too. Doesn't really take much away from the goal though.

This isn't directed at you, because I saw what you said regarding the goal on the other page, but I wonder how many of those Arsenal fans who will obviously belittle Rooney's goal because it was slightly shinny are the same fans who think RVP's against Charlton was one of the best goals ever.. we all know he shinned that one even worse than Rooney did.

Tony Montana

I remember pointing out the RVP shin thing on A-M.

YBF went mental because he was an RVP fanboy. He just had to prove that he was better than Henry.

Ricky1985

Burnwinter wrote:
Superb goal from Rooney, in terms of both quality and importance. Ricky it's all very well to point out he shinned it, but given his shin was a foot and a half above head height at the time I think we can forgive it.

Hate to say it but we could rue those two points at the end of the season.

I was only really joking tbh. It was a great, great goal, that I feel was still a little lucky. And I genuinely say that about most goals like that. They would never win my goal of the season.

I felt the same about that goal from the Irish league (the outrageous backheel) that was up for the goal of the year award. It was incredibly lucky, nothing particularly calculated or intentional about it. Still a great goal, once in a lifetime., but incredibly lucky.

asajoseph

Suarez looked very tidy for Liverpool yesterday.

Burnwinter

@Ricky I guess I'm from the "a great goal is a great goal" school. Anyway, fuck Rooney, we've got van Persie.

Tony Montana

asajoseph wrote:
Suarez looked very tidy for Liverpool yesterday.

But if he has a poor game will you write him off?

Maybe a string of poor games.

And before you say anything i'm not a big fan of Chamakh either.

asajoseph

Pardon?

Burnwinter

I believe that was a sly dig regarding your disdain for Chamakh.

Tony Montana

CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW ASAJOSEPH!

I don't really like Chamakh that much either.

But I remember him specifically saying Koscielny looks great during his pre-season games but then at Blackburn he didn't really like him.

With Chamakh he's more or less consistent.

asajoseph

Sunday Supplement did a feature on overhead kicks this morning, and for some reason didn't include this one - still one of the best goals I've ever seen.

Clearly shinned it though.

Mauro Bressan's was good as well, but it's the timing of Sinclair's which (like Rooney's) makes it so exceptional. Laurent Robert's was the other one that impressed me the most.

Tony Montana

Outside of the area.

Ricky1985

Burnwinter wrote:
@Ricky I guess I'm from the "a great goal is a great goal" school. Anyway, fuck Rooney, we've got van Persie.

Fuck Rooney indeed. That moment of great, great quality aside, he was bloody awful, completely ineffective, and looked so slow and weak. Looks to me like 10 years of hard football at the top, when he's body maybe wasn't totally ready for it, have really caught up with him.

Burnwinter

Agreed. I think his alleged recent "form surge" is much exaggerated. But United still get the points.

Tony Montana

@ Ricky

Have you seen Sky Sports this afternoon? They are wanking over this! Hahahha! The Sky hype. 😆

They went through Rooney's top goals since 2004/05 (including his goal against us at Emirates last season).

They then showed some Sunday league team trying to recreate the goal. A guy crossed in some nice loopy balls and a guy tried to bicycle kick it. Most of them were missed completely (they couldn't even get their legs that high) before eventually a guy smashed one in. There was no opposition. Just a crosser, a shooter and a keeper.

Then they showed the league team claiming it to be the best goal of the season.

Then they showed Rooney's goal.

Then they spoke to the United fans outside the stadium.

Lukazan

This one is pretty special:

And I was at this game, behind the goal!!!

Tony Montana

Are leicester your second team or were you a former fan?

Great goal by the way.

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