No One-Man Procession As Rooney Turns Into a Sulky Kid the Real Skills Came Fromman in Y-Fronts On the Ad ; Expectations Weigh Too Heavily On the Young England Star As He Reacts to Being Substituted Early.
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WHEN we saw him troop back to the bench here last night, face like thunder, booting his water bottle away and quite unable to conceal the look of a sulky schoolboy who hadn't got his own way, it dawned just how absurd the expectations had been all along on young Wayne Rooney.
All that stuff about how this kid was going to end all those weeks of injury recuperation by springing off that reforged metatarsal and single-handedly turning England's World Cup assault into a triumphant one-man procession was shown to be the nonsense it always had to be.See the full content of this document
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No One-Man Procession As Rooney Turns Into a Sulky Kid the Real Skills Came Fromman in Y-Fronts On the Ad ; Expectations Weigh Too Heavily On the Young England Star As He Reacts to Being Substituted Early.
Here was a young lad not looking match sharp, struggling to find his touch and passing range and getting increasingly mad with himself because of his inability to perform to the exalted standards he demands. In the circumstances, you'd have to say he tried his soc...
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