Wayne Rooney made his return to English football on Saturday, but it was also the day Sir Bobby Charlton passed away
He will not forget this afternoon, Wayne Rooney. He may want to, given his new charges finally succumbed to in the 89th minute after enduring a rising tide of pressure on saturated Teesside. But Rooney’s hands-on-hips frustration at Morgan Rogers’ goal was just one emotion on a day when he also shifted from personal pride and happiness back to deep sadness at what had been lost. Advertisement After 16 months away in the U.
There were instances in the first half, when the play was more equal, when at right-back and at left-back, were so advanced they looked like wingers. Ashley Cole and John O’Shea, two full-backs Rooney has brought with him as coaches to Birmingham, will presumably have a lot of input. Advertisement “It’s a lot more work for the full-backs,” Rooney said of the stylistic alteration. “The full-backs are really important in the system and we saw the full-backs tired towards the end of the game.
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