Even though I got the same birthday gift last year, I am as happy as I was last year. A warning to all Manchester United players. You have raised my expectations w.r.t. birthday presents, so you will have to maintain the same level forever.Forgive me for the megalomaniacal first para. I just could not help it. I am delighted to see ManUtd win. Though I watched only parts of it, I must say the passing and the movement is getting better and better. And this is what ManUtd are best at.
However, one thing peeves me no end! Why is all the attention going to Rooney? Yes, it was a good header. However, lines like "Rooney inspires ManUtd to Carling Cup Victory" or "Rooney comes off the bench to guide ..." give a totally wrong impression. Rooney is truly world class and has always been, the only difference nowadays is that he is scoring more goals and that is good for him as well as the team. However dubbing ManUtd as a one man team is ridiculous.
I will go ahead and make a strong claim. Rooney is probably the most effective player in ManUtd today. However, I feel Berbatov is classier. And in fact, the star and the man of yesterday's match was Berbatov. Both goals were offsprings of heavenly passes from him. And though as usual he looked his usual bored and lax self (which I just think is his style, not his true picture), he made the best passes in the game. He is a true master and a class act. Going by how rarely he plays, there is a good chance he might go the Veron way. I sincerely hope that does not happen with him.
Over the past few days, Rooney is being credited with everything good ManUtd does. I am extremely happy for him, but it does not do justice to the team. The media has a tendency to make an individual either a complete hero or a complete villain. That is just not fair to anybody. Same was the case with Nani. He performed well quite a few times this season. In spite of that, he was always blamed. And with the arsenal game, in which he made just one great move, they dubbed it his performance every in a United shirt. I think he has had far better games than that. Of course the result was big, but there have been games where he did more than just one brilliant thing.
Rooney is doing great and I could not be happier. I have felt that he has been the best player at ManUtd, not just this season, but for quite a while now. However giving him all the attention will be harmful to both him as well as the team.
Coming back to more pleasurable things - hope we continue the form and rock everyone. Good that Chelsea lost to Man City. We now have a chance to get ahead of them. However we have to play City too; apart from them, we have Chelsea + Liverpool. Hope all goes well.
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It was a good game and a nice win. Its proud to be an united fan when the team wins a trophy!
Rooney is world class, no doubts about that. I feel even when others are playing well for the team, its always the goal scorer who stands out. Rooney is virtually scoring all the goals for us, which makes us feel like are we totally dependent on rooney? What if he doesn't play? Will we score? If we don't score, then he comes on as a sub and scores, then are we a one man team? Even if you dont want to think like that, you will atleast feel like that.
Same with me. Nice to see it :)
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