Rooney's "Goal of the season"

[Nick Bateman]

One must give a round of applause and tip one's glass to the wonder goal scored by England's own Wayne Rooney.

The way he pushed the defender in the back, without being detected by the referee or the linesman, was sheer craft of the highest order.

Seeing that Tomkins was about to head the ball towards the Manchester United end, Rooney pounced like a £300,000-a-week man possessed and capitalised on an opportunity to cheat.

Knowing that the officials would more than likely side with the bigger team, Wayne deftly nudged the hapless Hammer and the rest is history!

Even Jamie Rednapp on BT Sport with numerous replays at his disposal dismissed any objections to the 'push' such is the stature of the tubby, bulldog-faced, profanity uttering, hair-transplanted, scouse-born Mancunian.

Forget about Pasami's "Van Basten-like" volley earlier this season.  When Wilshere's tap in outvoted it on Match Of The Day the BBC exonerated their new selection process with Nicola Maguire replying to me in my complaint that, "We feel that any club's number of fans is immaterial - we are asking viewers to vote for the best goal of the month, not for their own club."

Of course Nicola failed to mention she is 12 years old and was temporarily in charge of the BBC complaints department and has little grasp of football and how fans behave.

Let us hope Wayne goes on to outvote Wilshere for the MOTD Goal Of The Season Award and prove his goal was the best regardless of the fact that Man U have much more fans than Arsenal.
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[BishopsParkFantastic]

One must give a round of applause and tip one's glass to the wonder goal scored by England's own Wayne Rooney.

The way he pushed the defender in the back, without being detected by the referee or the linesman, was sheer craft of the highest order.

Seeing that Tomkins was about to head the ball towards the Manchester United end, Rooney pounced like a £300,000-a-week man possessed and capitalised on an opportunity to cheat.

Knowing that the officials would more than likely side with the bigger team, Wayne deftly nudged the hapless Hammer and the rest is history!

Even Jamie Rednapp on BT Sport with numerous replays at his disposal dismissed any objections to the 'push' such is the stature of the tubby, bulldog-faced, profanity uttering, hair-transplanted, scouse-born Mancunian.

Forget about Pasami's "Van Basten-like" volley earlier this season.  When Wilshere's tap in outvoted it on Math Of The Day the BBC exonerated their new selection process with Nicola Maguire replying to me in my complaint that, "We feel that any club's number of fans is immaterial - we are asking viewers to vote for the best goal of the month, not for their own club."

Of course Nicola failed to mention she is 12 years old and was temporarily in charge of the BBC complaints department and has little grasp of football and how fans behave.

Let us hope Wayne goes on to outvote Wilshere for the MOTD Goal Of The Season Award and prove his goal was the best regardless of the fact that Man U have much more fans than Arsenal.
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In my mind, there is only one 'goal of the season' (so far) - scored by Kasami. Rooney's goal is clever, skilful and opportunistic - but he did push an opposition player off the ball to score it! Wilsher's is an excellent team goal, but does not compare with Kasami's great and memorable individual goal.

[RaySmith]

These days  a few refs would have given a foul by Rooney.

It's almost as if the quality of the strike - by a top player for a top club -overcomes all possible criticism and allegations of illegality.

Kasami's should definitely should be goal of the season anyway.

[Herbie]

I thought Kasami's goal won't feature in the short list though as Wilshere won goal of the month that month?

[RaySmith]

But we know - whatever the official result is.

[Blanco]

The situation is so aggravating. If rooney or any other "top" player had scored Kasamis goal they'd be calling it goal  goal of th decade. It would definitely be chosen as goal of the season.

[Jamie88]

The situation is so aggravating. If rooney or any other "top" player had scored Kasamis goal they'd be calling it goal  goal of th decade. It would definitely be chosen as goal of the season.

Exactly this

[Rhys Lightning 63]

Something against Rooney in this situation, is the fact that the goalkeeper completely messed up. Xabi Alonso didn't win Goal Of The Season back in 2006/07 when he scored from in his own half, because Steve Harper tripped as he tried to save it.

If people are smart, they won't vote Rooney's goal as Goal Of The Season

[terryr]

Who.....really.....cares?

[leonffc]

At least this one didn't come off his shin!

[FPT]

It wasn't goal of the weekend, let alone season.

[simplyfulham]

By the way Nick, how is that armchair of yours?

[Burt]

It was a class goal. He saw the opportunity, and nailed it!

Not as good as Beckham's version, or even Nayim's goal against Arsenal. But it was still a cracking strike.

[nose]

i think conroy's goal was better

[Nick Bateman]

By the way Nick, how is that armchair of yours?

I watch Man U from armchair if at all.  If I'm around I go to Fulham games same as you perhaps.

[alfie]

i have one thought on this, if Wilshire played for Fulham and Kasami played for Arsenal would you still be voting for Kasami?

[Two Ton Ted]

Does anyone remember Van Nistelrooy's "goal of the season", two seconds after he attempted, and got away with, trying to end Legwinski's career?

[DJinNJ]

To be fair, there will probably be fewer Man United fans at the end of the season than there were at the beginning.

I didn't think there was much in the push Rooney gave, but the fact that it was only made possible by a keeper error should eliminate it. It was a nice goal to watch, but if that was the best goal of the season it would be a very dull season. And while it was a volley, it was one that fell very nicely for him, and the way it was lobbed (and could easily have bounced over the goal) makes it much less impressive than Beckham's or the one Suarez scored against Norwich a couple of years ago, not to mention Figueroa's for Wigan, all of which were driven and well placed. I would say the fact that Wilshere and Rooney are both English (and two of the first names in the England lineup) would factor in as well.