Do you think bench players are secretly

I know it's a different level but when I played Saturday league football I wanted the team to lose if I was on the bench.

If they kept winning, I wasn't going to get back into the team, if we get hammered 7-0 and both centre backs had a nightmare, I knew i'd be back in the team.

I think at professional level the players have signed contracts, get paid handsomely and in some cases re-located themselves and their families to play for a club.

They probably want the team to win, but also want the chance to prove that they can add something extra to the team.

I could just easily see Torres walking in his house with a bottle of champagne after training one evening, and excitedly proclaiming to his wife "Diego pulled him hamstring!"

comment by Robbie Raeside (U1734)
posted 40 minutes ago
Only Rooney actually wants to play football. Every other player in the world is just there for the money and fake injury so that they can get subbed and get easy money. Rooney loves playing the game and would play for free if he could. Who else here can honestly say they would play football for free at the best team in the world every week? Not one of you. Hero is thrown around all too readily these days, but Rooney is a dying breed.
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That's Barry Smith right?

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comment by Robbie Raeside (U1734)
posted 39 minutes ago
Only Rooney actually wants to play football. Every other player in the world is just there for the money and fake injury so that they can get subbed and get easy money. Rooney loves playing the game and would play for free if he could. Who else here can honestly say they would play football for free at the best team in the world every week? Not one of you. Hero is thrown around all too readily these days, but Rooney is a dying breed.
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Comedy comment of the year

Literally LOL
Rooney
Mr pay me more money or Im leaving every contract negotiation. Loyal as a backstabber.

Of course they are happy. I remember Danny Mills saying he was secretly very happy that Gary Neville was injured for the 2002 WC.
Unless you are the back up to the star player I think most players are wanting to start, unless they know they are lucky to be there.

Only a gooner would fall for that

^^
Just shown how much of a childish t¡t you are.

Same in all sports. I wonder if Matt Prior secretly hopes Jos Buttler drops a few behind the stumps.