[Chezzie Owl]

Here here MS, it seems Consilio cannot face the fact that Rooney isn't as good as he was and that everyone else thinks that he ISN'T world class so his only comeback is his scoring record, which is good....but nowhere near as comparable to the likes of Messi, Ronaldo, Lewandowski & Falcao (who has a far better goals to games ratio 220 goals in 361 games for club and country compared to Rooneys 275 in 619 games) whom are all in roughly the same age bracket as Rooney, give or take a couple of years.

He had the potential to be world class and he nearly was but as you say his record in championships is pretty poor and NEVER delivers when it matters most...the same for the rest of the so called "Golden Generation".