[Chezzie Owl]

SCO, disagree with you on the "best" players not having quality players around him. Assuming you mean Rooney then Sturridge, Sterling, Delph, Henderson, Wishere ARE quality players...otherwise they wouldn't be playing for their country would they! Also, Bale the other night had to "bale" Wales out (sorry couldn't help that one) and whilst the opposition were hardly of Germany's standard, the Wales team were poor but Bale stepped up and shown his WORLD CLASS qualities and has done so on more than one occasion in the past when Wales have been poor. Rooney plays for Man Utd and England...both with top quality players around him so there's no excuses!! With Ronaldo not performing for Portugal I think that is down to his attitude more than anything, fully knowing that the players around him are not as good as him and a team that hasn't done well recently, so basically Ronaldo is spitting his dummy out & isn't enjoying playing for Portugal at the moment and it's showing in his performances at International level.

The simple matter of fact is that Rooney is not at his best and hasn't been for a long time. His work rate whilst still there it isn't there all the time like it used to be, as for his goal scoring in what 5 games this season he has two of them in all competitions and one was a penalty at that. Sorry but Rooney can do better than that and simply isn't showing the kind of form that World Class players consistently show.