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Can Rooney live up to expectations?

By John Brewin
Soccernet.com

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Sven-Goran Eriksson's farewell press conference as England coach after his team's loss from the 2006 World Cup saw him display a hitherto hidden caring side. England had played much of its quarterfinal in Gelsenkirchen with a man down because, in aiming his studs at the nether regions of Portuguese defender Ricardo Carvalho, Wayne Rooney had blown his famously short fuse. Without their attacking fulcrum, England had floundered in the German midsummer heat. Yet Eriksson defended the then-20-year ...

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