Five years ago I travelled up to Goodison Park to watch Aston Villa’s youth team give Everton a real mullering 4-1 in the first leg of the FA Youth Cup Final. The undoubted star of that Everton team was 16-year old Wayne Rooney, who scored the first goal before stripping off his shirt and running to the Evertonians with the legend ‘Once a Blue, always a Blue’ emblazoned on his vest in blue ink.
Yesterday, in the same corner of the ground, the little fat kid was at it again. Except this time he was scoring against Everton, and he was kissing the Manchester United badge, no doubt, now a Red, and he’ll always be a Red…. unless Real Madrid make him a passionate White. I know exactly the level of disgust the Everton fans felt as they watched this vomit inducing little scene. We took Dwight Yorke from playing on the beach in Trinidad to scoring in a League Cup Final at Wembley. He was a passionate Aston Villa badge kisser… until he became passionate about running towards all those kids from Surrey, Belfast and Devon and kissing the Manchester United badge.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t blame him if he wants to bugger off and ply his trade elsewhere, but please spare us all that badge kissing cobblers. When we sing, “Villa ’til I die”, it’s because we mean it, not because someone is paying us millions of pounds a year to do it…. so please, get on with the job, and leave the badge kissing to us.
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I agree with you 100%, and not just because I am an Evertonian.
What is really odd is that his whole family remain Evertonians and his brother is also signed to the club. What Wayne cannot understand, and I really mean he cannot understand, is that he was manipulated by people around him in to moving. he was led to beleive that David moyes was leaking information about him (which is why David Moyes is suing him), yet he was unable to see that the only other people who knew what Moyes knew was his management company “Pro-Active”, who had the most to gain from driving a wedge between Rooney and Everton and ensuring he got a move.
He might impress the Man utd fans (and I watched the game yesterday surrounded by them and to be honest, if 1% of th people in that pub had ever seen them live, I’d be shocked), but real football fans see through him as petulent and, I hate to say it, but a perpetual underachiever for his club. It seems that money is what he loves (thus kissing his Man utd badge), whereas Everton and England is about pride, and he cares little for that, in my opinion.
Sorry, I meant to say a perpetual underachiever for his country ! Note, he has not scored a competitive goal for England since joining Manchester united three years ago.
Amen to that Bob.
Hi Bob
Its the same with most players (and owners&managers) I,m not sure Rooney is any better or worse than the rest.Loyalty is all one-way in professional sport.Today, i even feel sorry for Leeds fans! All that passion wasted!
Stick to the lower leagues Bob. it’s where the real action is. If I repeat that enough I might yet believe it…
Well I agree with that Bob except I believe it’s the same throughout the professional game (with a few notable exceptions).
From next season when the £30million for finishing LAST kicks in, we are going to see another glass ceiling appear halfway down the Championship (Division 2 as was when I were a lad). The Northamptons and Oldhams and Hulls of this world will have no chance of breaking through.
A disgrace.
To add to that Frank Lampard has to be one of the worst examples of badge kissing. Funnily enough my all time fav, Matt Le Tiss, spent all his career with Southampton and yet I never saw him kiss his badge after scoring, a wave to the crowd would normally be enough.