Wayne Rooney suffered an ankle injury towards the end of last season, and since then he hasn't produced a single performance of merit for club or country, World Cup or Premier League included. So far this season he's scored one goal for club and another for his country. This is not the performance level required of a so called 'world star'!His very public misdemeanour's, his contract wrangles and a stated desire to leave Manchester United all add up to a very troubled individual. The performance of Man Utd seems so much better without him that I'm now tempted to suggest he's not worth a starting berth with England. How could anybody ever suggest such a thing? Unfortunately even Fabio has now contemplated the impossible, and the next two friendlies provide him with the ideal opportunity to test that theory without doing any damage to our qualification for Euro 2012.
Fabio has constantly suggested that he won't pick anybody who isn't playing well for his club, but those seem empty words when you examine his selection for South Africa! How poor were some of his choices, both in the squad and the starting 11? Yet he seems determined to leave Rooney out of the next two games, at least that seems to be the rhetoric coming out of the Fabio camp this week. If he is even remotely serious about doing this I suggest he goes the whole hog and drops some of the other lame ducks that currently occupy the starting 11 for England. Then again, what's written in the newspapers and repeated on Sky News doesn't always bear any resemblance to anything that really happens. Watch this space as they say!
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