Is Wayne Rooney English Soccer's Larry Bird? "Soccer Jesus" to save english football from the seeming dominance of the superstars of otherwise silly nations . . . Henry, Reyes, Ruud, Cisse, Drogba and so forth?
3 Goals in the 1st 50 minutes of his champions league and man u debut after being out for three month seems somewhat impressive. (That's his total as I write this blog, he could have 8 goals by the time the match is over)
However, since EVERYONE will likely now add Rooney (or Young Slapper) to their EPL Fantasy line-ups, the question is, will he even start this weekend? He is young and Fergie will not want to over use him - will there be a much dreaded striker rotation?
As in NFL Fantasy - running back by commitee or RBC is death to fantasy dreams - its analogy in EPL fantasy is striker by commitee or SBC - Liverpool, Newcastle, Chelsea and Manu (Rooney, Ruud, Smith and also Saha to spice it up) all have numerous options in attack. Will Rooney be an every weekend machine like Henry or a hit and miss bundle of aggravation and frustration for fantasy owners. For now it may be unclear, but as time passes it looks like he will be the real deal for future seasons.
That being said, he has played 75% of one match versus a frickin turkish soccer team - who is probably just happy not to have fans lobbing mortars and nerve gas cocktails at them from the stands . . . how good can a soccer team be with a "Ç" in their name be after all.
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