Torres V Rooney

I'm not sure if there is a similar topic anywhere else on this, but I can't find one. This is not just about the ability of the players even though they are quite different.  

It has to be said Rooney has played out of his skin this season, and I'm sure everyone (English that is) is hopeing he can keep up this form for England in the summer. Torres on the other hand, started the season well and then, through injury has spent most of his playing time, in 1st gear as he has not had chance to get match fit before succumbing to injury again.

He is now, only just returning to something close to his best form. Here is the difference. Utd have been praised for their great run of results, followed by "where would they have been without Rooney" Every one seems to be in agreement, that without him, Utd would probably be in mid table such is his influence on games. Yet they also say, one player doesn't make a team!  

In addition to this we get, Without Torres, Liverpool look a shambles, the team is nowhere near good enough to win the prem. They are in decline and it is not good enough for a club like Liverpool, Etc. Etc. Etc. And we shouldn't be relying on one player to lift us all the time.    

Oh ! not like Rooney then ?

This pisses me off so much.  

This is just further evidence that the sports media on the whole, is anti Liverpool and pro Utd. One rule for them, another for us.  I'm so sick of the double standards, I'm reluctant to read the sports pages anymore, or even listen to the crap that spills from S.S.N. and the like.

Has anyone else got any similar reports on the two faces of journalism regarding our team.?      

And by the way, I'd take Torres over Rooney any day.

The media owners and editors usually lean towards united and chelsea. These are the fashionable clubs for people to pretend they are real football supporters (when we all know that they are really gobsh*tes)

Torres can score a goal out of nothing and from anywhere, Rooney can't, Torres isn't far behind on goals in about 20 less games so shows who has the better goals scoring ability. Torres is better, end of discussion.

I'm not sure if there is a similar topic anywhere else on this, but I can't find one. This is not just about the ability of the players even though they are quite different.  It has to be said Rooney has played out of his skin this season, and I'm sure everyone (English that is) is hopeing he can keep up this form for England in the summer. Torres on the other hand, started the season well and then, through injury has spent most of his playing time, in 1st gear as he has not had chance to get match fit before succumbing to injury again. He is now, only just returning to something close to his best form. Here is the difference. Utd have been praised for their great run of results, followed by "where would they have been without Rooney" Every one seems to be in agreement, that without him, Utd would probably be in mid table such is his influence on games. Yet they also say, one player doesn't make a team!  In addition to this we get, Without Torres, Liverpool look a shambles, the team is nowhere near good enough to win the prem. They are in decline and it is not good enough for a club like Liverpool, Etc. Etc. Etc. And we shouldn't be relying on one player to lift us all the time.            Oh ! not like Rooney then ?             This pisses me off so much.  
This is just further evidence that the sports media on the whole, is anti Liverpool and pro Utd. One rule for them, another for us.  I'm so sick of the double standards, I'm reluctant to read the sports pages anymore, or even listen to the crap that spills from S.S.N. and the like. Has anyone else got any similar reports on the two faces of journalism regarding our team.?      And by the way, I'd take Torres over Rooney any day.

Like you Gerns i too get pissed off with the double standards of the media, In the end tho mate it's alway's been like this, Especialy since the prem began, When sky monopolised football on tv, Its only in recent years that the Scum have been dominant and to some of the younger posters this is all they have experienced, I can remember the days when we were hated by everyone when we dominated from the mid-seventies to the late eighties, But of course we did'nt have the media then as we have now so i suppose it's par for the course the amount of coverage the scum get compared to how we were exposed, For the more mature posters such as myself we have our memories and of course our history speaks for itself, If we were as dominant as we were in those glory days i still think the media would be anti-Liverpool and stop at nothing to sell there shitty rags, Don't they just love to hype you up and place you on a pedestal only for the same people to cut the legs from under you as soon as they get bored or their sales drop, How many times has that been proved over the years, But you have a good point about double standards and i'm afraid it will always seem that way ......unless your SCUM.

Torres can score a goal out of nothing and from anywhere, Rooney can't, Torres isn't far behind on goals in about 20 less games so shows who has the better goals scoring ability. Torres is better, end of discussion.

Think you missed the point Kenny. I agree Torres is the better striker but the post wasn't just about that.

Think you missed the point Kenny. I agree Torres is the better striker but the post wasn't just about that.

No i didn't miss the point, i was just stating what the likes of Sky and all the pro united lot always fail to mention.

Rooney has a wonderfull supply, from a far stronger attacking team, i would  love to see what Torres would do with a supply like that............

Take away Rooney's tap-ins and penalties and he'd have about 12 goals. Take away Torres' tap-ins and penalties and he'd have about 19.

Rooney doesn't have the ability that Torres has to create his own chances. Torres will often use a piece of skill or trickery to fashion a chance out of nothing, Rooney uses his physicality and movement to get onto the end of crosses.

Both players are brilliant goal-scorers, but Rooney would be nothing without the wonderful service he gets. Torres can feed on scraps and still score goals.

Imagine them as a pairing up front? Thank f**k ManUre didn't get Torres.

No doubt about it Rooney is a quality player but i'd pick Torres over him any day.

One is fat and shags his Granny...the other is a ball of pure greatness that turns straight men torresexual in a second.

If this thread is meant to highlight how the media swing more towards the mancs than Liverpool, then it's the wrong title, because anyone who reads it will immediately compare the two.

The mancs have always had the media with them, it also helps when massive companies such as Granada are based there, and I believe the Mirror is aswell. Liverpool doesn't have a massive media outlet like that, which could be one way of looking at why they get it like they do.

The other way being that the world is full of plastic cu*ts who want a slice of the pie. Wankers.

Rooney has a wonderfull supply, from a far stronger attacking team, I would  love to see what Torres would do with a supply like that............

Torres in an arsenal team would get 40+ goals every season

Rooney injured, will he overtake him, going to be to hard this stage of the season.

Most United fans consider £30M Berbatov to be a steaming pile of turd.  We pay £20M for a midfielder and if he isn't the dogs bollocks people feel they have the right to carry out a character assassination on Benitez.

Anyway

Rooney isn't fit to lace Torres' boots.

Plus our Nando doesn't shag Grannies.

Torres in an arsenal team would get 40+ goals every season

Torres being fit every game of the season in a Liverpool team would get 40+ goals a season.

No contest Nando everytime.....Wayne who!!

Yeah Nando is way better looking!!

That number 9 we have over there number 10 anyday.

Isn't rooney no injured?

It pisses me off this debate, i know a few mancs from being at uni down south, and they bum rooney all day long just cos he's had one good goal scoring season, what about all the bad ones!?

Even being objective Torres wins every time- he's quicker, a better finisher, more natural on the ball, more dangerous in the box, makes space better, and more importantly rooney doesn't scare defenders in the same way torres does.

HAHAHA

One is fat and shags his Granny...the other is a ball of pure greatness that turns straight men torresexual in a second.

  quote of the week

Torres is the best striker in the world, his scoring rate proves it, and he's played half as many matches as everyone else this season

And by the way, I'd take Torres over Rooney any day.

I think a few more people should have read your original post properly mate.

Agree with what you say. Apart from hoping Rooney will be fit in the summer bit.  You've just got to get on with it regarding the media I reckon. I stopped reading national media a long time ago with regards to sport. There's more 'experts' in journalism these days than there is in football. Or so they would have you believe.

The simple fact is. The mancs without Rooney this season would suffer. And us without Torres this season have suffered.