he might get injured..

..pick another player..

..one that's a waste of space

Rooney is part of the disease not the cure. They should all get a three match ban for being arrogant, ego-maniacal, overpaid failures.

The good football will be played by the Spanish, Dutch, probably the Italians will show up and there'll be a hard working east european team that will alight the tournament, we will make the quarters probably.

Yep,

.. red cross flag in the back window of the car..

.. having aborted the idea of flying it from the roof of the house..

..supermarkets under the strain of the beer and fast food demand in chain store logistics..

..passing on the price to the consumer ....

..sometimes, I wish i was Scottish

Can you hire his dad out for kids parties? He's hilarious. His face looks as if it's made out of play dough.

Thinking about it tho'..

..if Madine was picked for England..

..we could have an international rest day like the Dingles..

..who had ....Diddly Squat playing

Oh dear, maybe we will have to pick a team player who actually trys for England. Rooney's done nothing since 2004 at major finals apart from be injured, sent off, played carp and/or spat his dummy out cos he's been rumbled by people with an IQ above 5.

Has anyone checked JOC's family tree yet? I would recommend Cappello gets on it - you never know there's a chance he has English blood.

Shibb, I mentioned on a thread earlier that I fully expect JOC to be bossing the ROI midfield by the time Euro2012 kicks off. I was informed this was "too far" by Imonster.

Related to this, I think my Brother summed up my feelings about England before South Africa when he said " I want England to win, but it'd make me sick to see John Terry lifting the world cup trophy".

I want England to win, but dislike most of the squad.

Shame NYO, he hasn't got a tenuous England call up , rather like the tenuous Ireland call ups that English players get - obviously Mick McCarthy aside.

As for Rooney's ban , all I can say is Geoff Hurst over Jimmy Greaves. May as well cut Cappello loose now whilst we're at it.

Now is the time to pick a team that plays for each other and not a team that sells shirts, Lucozade, Pepsi, Nike, Prada etc. etc. etc.

Scott Parker - He's just a poor man's James O'Connor really.

Spot on shibbo. Nuff said, won't be buying the Rooney/Terry/Lampard/Gerrard biopic anytime soon.

NYO, I'd rather have ten Scott Parkers plus a goalie than the idi..,, cu., w.., pay day t..ts that we currently have. At least he appears to care.

You could shave a chimp and put it in a Manu shirt and people would think it was Rooney.

Thought that had already been done Micky.

But could it play for England? I always thought Pan troglodytes was West African. It would have to be a zoo chimp born in captivity. Are there enough to form a squad?

Why not Izzy? France won the world cup with a team largely made up of players born in west africa.

Personally I wouldn't use anything the French do as a yardstick for our behaviour....

Sorry, quite right I forgot myself for a moment there!

I dont care that Rooneys out for 3 games. No doubt hes an incredible player but thats only for his club, hes useless for England.

Im sure that our manager will still take him though cos hes an idiot

Wonder if Rooney snr. made a few bob on an England red card last Friday?

Nice idea Sparty, but I doubt Rooney jnr. could follow such complicated instructions.

There's an easy way to stop hating the England players, stop reading the red tops & believing every word that's said!

There's many many more amongst the general public who are bigger t**ts than footballers but we're not jealous of their job/earnings so it's alright!

It would be crazy not to take Rooney. So what if he can't play the first 3 games, you can only play 11 out of 23 anyway! He's genuine world class & when we get through the group then he'll be available for the business end of the tournament, probably eager to prove a point.

All this England hate gets right on my <tits> by the way, unless you're not English that is....then it's fine!

Agreed....but you have to admit, Rooney's dismissal was muppetry of the highest order.