..it’s funny with Rooney. England’s greatest ever goal scorer, most caps for an outfield player, captained his country, greatest ever Manchester United goalscorer, won virtually every club honour in the game. I think he’ll be really appreciated when he packs in.
He divides opinion but I always loved watching him.
Maybe semantic mate, but I'd replace the word
greatest with
record goalscorer, in that he scored the most goals. Lineker, Charlton and of course Geoff Hurst were
greater goalscorers for England. Even arguably Michael Owen.
It's a similar debate with Miroslav Klose for Germany. Even tho' he's also the record goalscorer in World Cups from any nation, as well as being Germany's record scorer, you'd struggle to find any Germans who'd label him a
greater goalscorer than Gerd Müller (Klose also needing twice as many games to score as many goals).
Big fan of Klose myself, mind...but Gerd Müller was
greater, despite being second in the stats.
And obviously none of us are Man U fans, but I bet not many of them would rank Rooney in a
greatest ever goalscorer poll, despite his record-busting stats. They'd have Charlton, Ruud, Cantona and others above him.
