What the hell is gone wrong with Rooney

[Jangle]

Really? What about "legitimate" rape? Or "forcible" rape?

[Gamma]

yuh running for public office now?

[Jangle]

thinking about RBSC presidency. I am itching to get control of that delete button.

[Gamma]

and i shall make sure it stays right here!

[GazX]

Look like RVP tek ova the top man at O.T already

[Westman]

Well, after Monday gone, him decide say him dont like hair dryer inna him face. Also, my opinion is that your performances from previous seasons dont mean a thing. We are trying to win things now so you need to perform now. All who want to hang out to the past can go walk with deluded gang of X, Mosiah, R, Marin, etc. Me want to walk alone at the top.

[Lionpaw]

Rooney: The most overrated football player of all times

[Dunny]

There's fat chance Fergie will play me! Rooney reveals weight battles at United



By Sportsmail Reporter
PUBLISHED:08:58, 5 September 2012| UPDATED:13:22, 5 September 2012

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Wayne Rooney has admitted his recent spat with Sir Alex Ferguson isn't the first occasion the pair have been at loggerheads over the striker's below-par fitness.

Ferguson was not happy with Rooney's condition when he returned for pre-season training this season and the United boss even suggested an enforced break after cutting his leg might be just what last season's top scorer needed to rediscover peak condition.

And now the England striker has admitted needing to take action when his fitness levels were below the standards required, recalling an episode in 2009.


Back to basics: Rooney has conceded he was overweight when he returned to training in 2009

Rooney reveals the moment he told team-mates about his hair transplant


Before the last day of the 2010-2011, I decided to tell the rest of the United players.

I knew if I went on holiday with thinning hair and came back looking like Andy Carroll, they'll slaughter me.

After the Blackpool game, I said: 'I'm going to get a hair transplant done when I go away for the summer.'
'Oi, Wazza,' someone shouts. 'Are you going to grow a ponytail?'


'Early July: The first day back at pre-season training. I'm like most blokes, I put on a few pounds after a holiday' he said in an extract of his new book 'Wayne Rooney: My decade in the Premier League' in the Mirror, who are serialising his latest autobiography.
'Even if I don’t train for a week, I put on two or three, but when I get back to Carrington for the first day of work, I’m in for a shock.

'The scales in the club gym tell me I’ve put on a few more pounds than expected – seven. Seven!
'Then I remember – I drank a few bevvies while I was away. I’m stocky. I’m not like Ryan Giggs, all bone and lean muscle.

'But I gain weight quite easily. It’s not a problem though. It’s not as if the manager is leaning over my shoulder as the numbers come in, tutting and making jokes about me eating too many chip butties.

'As a striker I need to work hard all the time. I need to be sharp, which means my fitness has to be right to play well. If it isn't, it shows,'


Weight of responsibility: Rooney was used as a sub against Fulham and promptly injured himself



Rooney's injury recovery nightmares


When I'm out injured, I know I can't help the lads prepare for the next match so, typically, I get grumpy.

Still, it could be worse. Owen Hargreaves had operations on both knees and didn't play for 18 months and he was a United and England regular before then.

Players become a spare part when they're seriously injured. They become forgotten men around the club.

When I'm injured I get wound up and nervy watching games. It's so frustrating. I can't influence the game at all. I'm helpless.


'It would probably be different if I were a full-back. I could hide a bit, make fewer runs into the opposition half and get away with it.
'As a centre-forward for Manchester United, there's no place to hide. I've got to work as hard as I can, otherwise the manager will haul me off the pitch or drop me for the next game.

'There's no room for failure or second best at this club.'
Rooney found that out late last year after he was dropped for a match against Blackburn at Old Trafford. Ferguson was unhappy after it came to light Rooney had been out socialising after a game.

'I'm happy at Manchester United, despite the downs that sometimes take place at a football club,' he continued.
'Like when we stuff Wigan 5-0 on Boxing Day.

All smiles: Rooney knows that one bad challenge could end his career in an instant



'I go out for dinner with a few of the lads, and our other halves, to a hotel. The next day, the manager pulls me up and tells me he's not happy and doesn't feel I've trained properly.
'He fines me, but there's worse to come. I'm dropped for the next game, on New Year's Eve, against Blackburn.
'At a lot of clubs, people wouldn't bat an eyelid at players having a night out six days before a game. But that's the difference at Manchester United and a mark of the high standards the manager demands.
'It's a big deal, another lesson learned.'

And Rooney also knows his body is not as durable as it used to be.

'Physically I've taken a bit of a battering over the years; being lumped by Transformer-sized centre-backs or having my muscles smashed by falls, shoulder barges and last-ditch tackles, day in, day out, has left me a bit bruised,' Rooney said.

'When I get up in the morning after a game, I struggle to walk for the first half an hour. I ache a bit. It wasn't like that when I was a lad.

'I remember sometimes when I finished training or playing with Everton and United, I'd want to play some more. But football has had a massive impact on my body because my game is based on speed, power and intensity.

'Like any player I'm fearful of getting a career-ending injury. I could be in the best form of my life and then one day a bad tackle might finish my time in the sport. It's over then.

'But that's the risk I take as a player in every match. I know football is such a short career that one day, at any age, the game could be snatched from me unexpectedly.

'So I want to decide when I leave football, not a physio, or an opponent's boot.


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[Jangle]

'There's no room for failure or second best at this club.'

Well I guess that says it all.