Betting Spy: Wedding bells toll for Wayne Rooney

Grant Prior 8 years ago
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It never ends well when a drunk bloke in a tracksuit tries to bunk into a posh wedding.

Now white tie is a bit too formal for modern weddings but you can go too far the other way
Now white tie is a bit too formal for modern weddings but you can go too far the other way

But Wayne Rooney has more to worry about than being caught on the razz during his night off.

Snaps of Rooney looking a bit worse for wear may give manager Gareth Southgate a convenient excuse to drop his captain.

Because the brutal truth is a past-his-peak Rooney is not worth a place in the national side.

We saw glimpses against Spain of how a pace-filled England attack could possibly trouble even the top sides.

And Rooney simply doesn’t have a place in that sort of set-up now his physical abilities are waning.

It’s been obvious for a while that Rooney is not the force of old yet rather than be brutal a succession of managers have tried to shoe horn him into unfamiliar positions.

A once great striker doesn’t automatically make an international midfielder.

But still Rooney’s supporters in the media consider him undroppable for England.

Perhaps that ill-judged duck into the wedding reception last weekend might do us all a favour in the long run.

I doubt we’ll see Wayne line up against Arsenal at Old Trafford on Saturday and the visitors are tempting at 17/10.

But Jose Mourinho will be desperate not to lose against his old foe Arsene Wenger and I can see a draw suiting both sides.

Let’s look elsewhere for a punt and and the slightly less glamorous “SaS” double of Stoke and Sunderland to win looks appealing.

Stoke are in decent form with a few coming back from injury which should see them past a Bournemouth side who struggle on the road.

Sunderland finally bagged their first win before the international break and the visit of Hull is a must-win game which they should have just enough about them to see out.

The Stoke/Sunderland double pays around 4/1 which might make a dent in our rather depressing running total for the season.

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