Of course Fergie doesn't want Rooney to go - they have the Premiership to win. Just the old club v. country conundrum.


   As for Sven, "you can't please all the people all the time." Whatever anyone in the public eye does, there will be someone criticising what they do. I think it's important to say each time WHO is making the criticism. If it's a tabloid journalist, I'd fall back in amazement.    Not. If it's a Phd in Football Studies, a football supporter, a manager, a psychologist etc.etc., well that matters in evaluating the comments.

   And people are tricky. Someone at work asked me who I thought would win the World Cup. I said Brazil. He replied "You're not very patriotic". I was answering the question he asked , not who did I want to win.

Later the same chap asked a Portuguese who he thought would win, and on getting the reply"Portugal", he replied,"That's just a pipe-dream."

That's why we shouldn't worry overly over every criticism.


   


       Ivor