Fans Comment
Kevin Sparke

The beautiful game?
2 May 2006

I�ve been following the debate about Rooney for the last couple of days with great interest and it is confirmed a suspicion I�ve had for quite a while now and that is: a very large number of so-called football fans care little for football as a spectacle � they are too busy wrapping themselves in their own petty inadequacies. They express their failings in witless parochialism and their gutless revelling in other people�s misfortunes. (And I say that in reference to them as people and football fans in general and not as fellow Evertonians.)

To me, Rooney is the best English player of his generation and I feel gut-wrenchingly deprived that I won�t be allowed to appreciate his silky skills at the coming World Cup. Don�t get me wrong; my loyalties are �Football, Everton, England� and in that order. England without Rooney is the equivalent of Brazil 1970 without Pele, Argentina 1982 without Maradona, France 1998 without Zidane... I feel as if my life has been enriched with the experience of watching these master exponents of beautiful football at thier respective tournaments and I�m crushed beyond belief that 2006 Germany will be without Rooney. I love Everton but I love beautiful football more, wherever it is played.

A few comments on what I�ve read so far in no particular order:

1. Mick Wrende: 'The fact that Rooney looked only to himself is what everyone hates about him especially as he left us when we needed him most� typical of the dreadful decline in our current society'

So Mike, when Alex Young left Hearts for Everton he did it for love of our club and he wasn�t looking out for himself or his family? When Bob Latchford left Birmingham? Trevor Steven left Burnley? Peter Reid left Bolton? etc etc etc�

2. Gavin Ramejkis: 'the matter to hand is simply a dirty footballer getting their just deserts'

Right Gavin, when Cahill breaks his leg after one sly ankle tap too many you�ll be overwhelmed with joy and positively glowing with a sense of justice having been done? I�ll bet� Oh, and the council quip� 'we may have been born in the gutter (mate), but some of us are looking up to the stars'

3.Tony Marsh. I pity you� I really do� Your opinions on just about anything reveal to me that you are incapable of finding a vestige of enjoyment in anything other than your own persecution complex; you keep decrying the dearth of good football at Everton FC� judging by your incessantly negative posts and your infatuation with parochialism, you wouldn�t know good football if you fell over it and if you accidentally did you wouldn�t appreciate it. You encapsulate your postage stamp sized encyclopaedic knowledge of football with one phrase you use about Rooney: 'No class'.

That lad has more footballing class lying under his finger nails than you and your ilk could possibly achieve in a 1000 years, grow up for fucks sake and try a bit of rationality instead of this constant diet of bile.

Shite, Tony, I hated the fact that Rooney left Everton and I really do think that if he�d have come onto the scene in 1992 and not 2002, he�d have had a good 5-10 years out of him at the club. We were skint, we needed the money, he was an asset, he was sold� end of.

Finally, I�d just like to express my good wishes to Wayne Rooney on his recovery and I look forward to enjoying watching your sublime skills next season� just wish it was for us.
Kevin Sparke


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