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  • Wazza and Gazza…Disturbing Parallel’s

    Wazza and Gazza…Disturbing Parallel’s

    Much has been written of Wayne Rooney and his saga with Manchester United in the last few weeks, most have focused on his contract, or his lack of goals, and have chalked it up to difficulties in his personal life. However, no one has attempted to go further and discuss the taboo topic of the mental health of England and the Red Devils talismanic player. Rooney is often compared to the greatest players in football, Ronaldo, Messi, Zidane, but I can think of another former England talisman player who parallels his life, both personal and professional; Paul Gascoigne.

  • Owen’s Out to Pasture; Rooney’s a Disaster

    Owen’s Out to Pasture; Rooney’s a Disaster

    Tweet It happens to every player eventually, after a long road filled with success and acrimony, loss and joy, they enter the greener pastures of retirement. For some, they go there gracefully, others take their inspiration from Zinedine Zidane, but in the case of Micheal Owen it seems to be […]

  • Rooney and Manchester United’s Financial Woes

    Rooney and Manchester United’s Financial Woes

    Tweet If you look carefully at the Premiership, and the modern game of top flight football, it’s overwhelmingly defined by one word, debt. In recent times, it has led to the downfall of many Premier League sides as they began a slow slide down the slippery slope of high interest […]

  • Studs Up, Sportsmanship Down: A Week of Terrible Tackles

    Studs Up, Sportsmanship Down: A Week of Terrible Tackles

    One subject that has dominated football news, the blogosphere, and the weekly rags has been the shower of horrendous tackles falling on some the world’s best players. Some of these challenges were fair ones gone wrong, like Broadfoot’s one on Valencia. There was no malice in it, just bad luck, and we here at soccerprose hope he makes a quick recovery. However, the tackle by Tomas Ujfalusi on Messi was an absolute howler. He came in late, almost off the ball it was so late, and targeted his ankle.