Bizza 105 Posted June 7, 2006 Share Posted June 7, 2006 I think the worst thing that could happen is a 50\50 result from the scan, I'd rather it ruled him out completly so this whole thing can be put to rest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetleftpeg 0 Posted June 7, 2006 Share Posted June 7, 2006 I've always defended Sven for the main reason that there would be nobody better to replace him (and I knew that if he did go there'd be a pro-English manager campaign by the hacks) but the closer it has gotten to the WC the more clueless he's looked. I mean, JJ ffs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Kirkey 0 Posted June 7, 2006 Share Posted June 7, 2006 It's the best club in the world the England squad, once you get into it you'll never get out, as that little puff from n17 is proof. Doesn't matter if you play well consistently over the course of the season like Scott Parker or Kevin Nolan did, you've got little chance of getting in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 34496 Posted June 7, 2006 Author Share Posted June 7, 2006 Is anyone watching SSN? It's class man. Rooney has just come out of the hospital grinning so the bloke reporting says "I hope I'm not jumping the gun, but we could be witnessing the rebirth of everyone's World Cup hopes. Looking at people around they are smiling and relaxed. He's got into a car with David Davies which can only mean one thing etc. etc." Probably the biggest story he'll cover in his life and he's really fucking milking it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Sima Posted June 7, 2006 Share Posted June 7, 2006 gahahahahaa, SSN with a slow motion replay of him smiling ffs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papa Lazaru 0 Posted June 7, 2006 Share Posted June 7, 2006 Is anyone watching SSN? It's class man. Rooney has just come out of the hospital grinning so the bloke reporting says "I hope I'm not jumping the gun, but we could be witnessing the rebirth of everyone's World Cup hopes. Looking at people around they are smiling and relaxed. He's got into a car with David Davies which can only mean one thing etc. etc." Probably the biggest story he'll cover in his life and he's really fucking milking it. 146235[/snapback] It was to be expected though! Tbh he was smiling and i can't imagine he would have if he'd been told his world cup was over before it began! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Sima Posted June 7, 2006 Share Posted June 7, 2006 Just been sucked off by a nurse tbh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattM4 0 Posted June 7, 2006 Share Posted June 7, 2006 Is anyone watching SSN? It's class man. Rooney has just come out of the hospital grinning so the bloke reporting says "I hope I'm not jumping the gun, but we could be witnessing the rebirth of everyone's World Cup hopes. Looking at people around they are smiling and relaxed. He's got into a car with David Davies which can only mean one thing etc. etc." Probably the biggest story he'll cover in his life and he's really fucking milking it. 146235[/snapback] shouldnt post a link like this to NO, but http://www.newcastle-online.com/nufcforum/....html#msg411852 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 34496 Posted June 7, 2006 Author Share Posted June 7, 2006 Apparently he's away back to Germany on the plane, so it looks like he's probably staying in the squad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Sima Posted June 7, 2006 Share Posted June 7, 2006 Forgot his iPod tbh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodgate27 0 Posted June 7, 2006 Share Posted June 7, 2006 Just found out he doesn't have the claps. Decision re World Cup still pending. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Kenneth Noisewater 0 Posted June 7, 2006 Share Posted June 7, 2006 Rooney gets World Cup green light Wayne Rooney has been included in Sven-Goran Eriksson's World Cup squad, BBC Sport understands. Rooney appears to have won the race to prove his fitness after breaking a metatarsal in his right foot while playing for Manchester United in April. He has left on a flight back to Germany - which is due to land at Karlsruhe near Baden-Baden at about 2200 BST. He had earlier spent two hours at a Manchester hospital while doctors studied the results of an earlier scan. Football Association executive director David Davies had a broad grin as he left hospital with Rooney before they drove to Manchester Airport. An official announcement has yet to be made by either the Football Association or Manchester United - who announced on their website at 1945 BST that a "decisive" scan result "will be announced this evening". But it does appear that Rooney has been given the green light by the group that spent those two hours locked in the clinic at Whalley Range - which included United doctor Tony Gill and physio Rob Swire, England team doctor Leif Sward and other specialists. It is also thought that an independent consultant from Fifa was on hand should there be any conflict between Rooney's club and country - and it was reported that United lawyers were in attendance. But a decision has apparently been reached to retain Rooney in the squad - and send the unfortunate Jermain Defoe of Tottenham, who had been on standby, back to England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJS 3980 Posted June 7, 2006 Share Posted June 7, 2006 Just been sucked off by a nurse tbh 146243[/snapback] More likely a Hattie Jacques type matron given his tastes for the older woman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 34496 Posted June 8, 2006 Author Share Posted June 8, 2006 Rooney is injury free - Eriksson England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson said striker Wayne Rooney is "injury free" and will be able to play at the World Cup as soon as he is match fit. The 20-year-old returned to England's camp late on Wednesday after a scan on his broken foot in Manchester. Rooney attended England training on Thursday ahead of the opening World Cup game against Paraguay on Saturday. "I'm doing this in the best interests of Rooney, the England team and 40 million England fans," said Eriksson. Rooney has been out of action since breaking a metatarsal in his right foot against Chelsea on 29 April. There were fears the injury would rule the Manchester United striker out of the entire tournament. But his club issued a statement on Wednesday saying the 20-year-old would be fit - but only after the group stage of the tournament. United added that at that point a "very careful assessment" would be needed to decide if Rooney could participate. But Eriksson insisted the star, who had been tipped to be England's star player before the tournament, was only now working on his fitness. "The good news from Wednesday evening and today is that Rooney has no more injury. He's injury free," he said at Thursday's news conference in Baden-Baden. "Now, it's up to us to get him match fit and, when we think he's match fit, I'm prepared to take in any specialist we want to take in, or Manchester United want us to take in." Rooney returned to the England camp on Wednesday evening, where the BBC's chief football correspondent Mike Ingham - who was in the reception of the team's hotel in Baden-Baden when the striker returned - heard him declare 'The Big Man is back in town'. Rooney had flown to Manchester on Wednesday for the scan in a private jet and spent a further two hours at a clinic later in the day while doctors studied the results. Among the medical staff who were at the Whalley Range clinic where Rooney's foot was scanned were United doctor Tony Gill and physio Rob Swire, England team doctor Leif Sward and other specialists. It is thought that a consultant from Fifa was also on hand in case of a conflict between the club and the FA and it was reported that United lawyers were there. England captain David Beckham said the players were pleased to see Rooney back in the fold but insisted they were focused on Saturday's opening match against Paraguay. "It's nice to have him back but to be honest we haven't really been thinking about it too much as the players have been concentrating and focused on training and it hasn't been a distraction," he said. "Wayne's been doing the same tests and his fitness level is up there with the rest of us but whether he plays is up to the management." Sounds to me like Sven is planning to use him as soon as possible. I reckon he might get on for a bit in the Sweden game. Also - the bit in bold. What a plonker! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted June 8, 2006 Share Posted June 8, 2006 Still can't believe Sven is only taking 4 strikers inc. Owen and Rooney - mental tbh. The midfield is ridiculously overstaffed. Just supposing Beckham, Gerrard and Lampard all got injured for the same game, there would still be Lennon or Joe Cole could play wide right (with Bridge/Ashley Cole or Downing playing left. And Cole/Carrick/Hargeaves/Jenas would be able to fill the two central positions. So even if 3 of the starters got injured we've still got too many midfielders. Clueless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted June 8, 2006 Share Posted June 8, 2006 Just been sucked off by a nurse tbh 146243[/snapback] More likely a Hattie Jacques type matron given his tastes for the older woman. 146275[/snapback] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catmag 336 Posted June 8, 2006 Share Posted June 8, 2006 Press conference this morning - Erikkson with a face like fucking thunder "The last say in this story is Rooney's and mine" In other words - Butt Out Fergie! Clicky I'm not quite sure that "injury-free" is entirely accurate like... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geordieshandy 0 Posted June 8, 2006 Share Posted June 8, 2006 Press conference this morning - Erikkson with a face like fucking thunder "The last say in this story is Rooney's and mine" In other words - Butt Out Fergie! Clicky I'm not quite sure that "injury-free" is entirely accurate like... 146531[/snapback] Don't think Nicky really had a chance to get into this squad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetleftpeg 0 Posted June 8, 2006 Share Posted June 8, 2006 He'll come back for the second round game and be shit. Too much hope pinned on him, not helped by the gutter press devoted fornt pages to it with slogans such as 'There is a God.' Bejesus weptathon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 34496 Posted June 8, 2006 Author Share Posted June 8, 2006 Fair play to Sven like. He knows he doesn't have to deal with that interfering Scottish prick much longer, so he's quite rightly telling him that Rooney's on England duty now, and to keep out of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBass 2231 Posted June 8, 2006 Share Posted June 8, 2006 Fair play to Sven like. He knows he doesn't have to deal with that interfering Scottish prick much longer, so he's quite rightly telling him that Rooney's on England duty now, and to keep out of it. 146548[/snapback] Would you be of the same opinion if it was regarding Owen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 34496 Posted June 8, 2006 Author Share Posted June 8, 2006 Fair play to Sven like. He knows he doesn't have to deal with that interfering Scottish prick much longer, so he's quite rightly telling him that Rooney's on England duty now, and to keep out of it. 146548[/snapback] Would you be of the same opinion if it was regarding Owen? 146571[/snapback] Don't be silly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Kenneth Noisewater 0 Posted June 8, 2006 Share Posted June 8, 2006 Press conference this morning - Erikkson with a face like fucking thunder "The last say in this story is Rooney's and mine" In other words - Butt Out Fergie! Clicky I'm not quite sure that "injury-free" is entirely accurate like... 146531[/snapback] The porridge-gobbling Whisky fanatic will be seething Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 34496 Posted June 9, 2006 Author Share Posted June 9, 2006 Press conference this morning - Erikkson with a face like fucking thunder "The last say in this story is Rooney's and mine" In other words - Butt Out Fergie! Clicky I'm not quite sure that "injury-free" is entirely accurate like... 146531[/snapback] The porridge-gobbling Whisky fanatic will be seething 146691[/snapback] Yup! Knives out in the battle of wounded foot Rooney may have harmed his relations with Ferguson as Eriksson and the United manager are no longer talking Daniel Taylor in Baden-Baden Friday June 9, 2006 The Guardian Sir Alex Ferguson has slammed down the phone on Sven-Goran Eriksson once already this week and England's coach can brace himself for another tirade when the news gets back to Manchester United of his plans for Wayne Rooney. A day of fierce mudslinging and finger-pointing concluded here last night with Eriksson apparently determined to defy Ferguson by playing the forward in the group stage and, most worryingly for Rooney, the very real danger that he may have damaged his own relationship with his club manager. The first disclosure from the Black Forest was that Eriksson's dispute with Ferguson is now laced with so much antipathy that diplomatic relations have officially been called off. The next revelation was that Eriksson still hopes to play Rooney against Sweden in 11 days' time, even though it goes against the advice of the leading foot specialist in the country. Throw in allegations that United deliberately misled the public about Rooney's rehabilitation and an increasingly rancorous saga threatens to become one of the biggest controversies in World Cup history before a ball has even been kicked. Publicly, Eriksson said only that Rooney's x-rays had shown his broken metatarsal had fully healed and that, out of courtesy, United could send their medical staff over to Germany to take a second opinion once he had decided the player was sufficiently fit to make his comeback. Arrangements have also been made to unbolt the gates of their training ground if United want to send in Professor Angus Wallace, the independent specialist who oversaw Wednesday's scans in Manchester and reported back that Rooney should wait until after the group stages. The one thing that United and the Football Association agree on is that Wallace, a professor of orthopaedic surgery at Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre, is one of the best in his business. Yet Eriksson has made it clear he regards the professor's advice as secondary to that of his fitness coach Ivan Carminati. The other players were told not to tackle Rooney when he resumed full training for the first time yesterday but paradoxically the issue, according to Eriksson, is no longer the condition of the player's foot but the length of time it will take for him to be match-fit. On that count, Eriksson has made it clear he will give little credence to a professor with no football background and will take his recommendations from his own backroom team, starting with Carminati. Ferguson regards that as reckless but Eriksson, using Fifa's competition rules, has been able to pull rank and, despite his natural aversion to confrontation, the Swede believes he has no reason to feel guilty. Tellingly, the FA's information is that Rooney's injury was never as bad as United made out. Eriksson, it transpires, was informed at an early stage that Rooney would make it and there is deep-rooted scepticism within England's camp about the reasons for United releasing a statement 10 days ago stating it was a double fracture close to the joint of his foot, making it "an injury which takes longer to heal". The suggestion is that that claim was highly dubious. Rooney's first concern is getting himself into the shape that lessens the risk of further injury. He was blowing heavily in yesterday's session and underwent tests afterwards with Carminati. The scales showed he had lost 7lb. Beyond the World Cup, Rooney will have other concerns. Ferguson, it emerges, wanted the 20-year-old to put club before country and withdraw of his own accord. United's manager expressed his feelings in the strongest possible terms, breaking off from holidaying in the south of France to warn his player of where his priorities should lie. The consequences would be dire if he were to be re-injured, and a deeply aggrieved Ferguson said as much. Wallace also lectured Rooney about the dangers of rushing back and susceptibility to secondary injuries such as hamstring and thigh strains. He was adamant Rooney should wait until the knockout stages and United asked the FA to add its name to a joint statement confirming the striker would be held back. Eriksson refused. United's stance is that Rooney's foot still needs protection, which is substantiated by the fact he has been instructed to put special insoles - orthotics - in his boots. The club have also cited Eriksson's declaration from the last World Cup that David Beckham had fully recovered from his metatarsal injury. Eriksson subsequently admitted Beckham was only 70% ready. The ructions seem certain to continue though Rooney's presence has undoubtedly lifted the mood. "Wayne is buzzing and so is the rest of the squad," said Steven Gerrard. "He's our best player and having him back helps our chances of going all the way. We need to be patient because you can't really throw a player into a World Cup game if he's not match fit." According to the BBC both England and Manchester United are agreed that his foot has fully healed and that all that remains is for him to regain full fitness, which is canny promising really. All the reports this morning make it sound like Sven plans to use him in the group games as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattM4 0 Posted June 9, 2006 Share Posted June 9, 2006 If we win our first two games without him, can't seeing him being risked in the last one. In any other circumstances, it looks like he'll definitely take part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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