FA Cup: Rooney hits out at Evans shirt 'snub' coverage
Omnisport - Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney is far from happy that his record-equalling goal has been overshadowed by shirt-swapping nonsense.
Wayne Rooney has taken a swipe at media coverage of his shirt swap with Reading's George Evans following Manchester United's FA Cup win over Reading.
FA Cup: Returning to Old Trafford, Jaap Stam shows managerial promise
Stam is targeting promotion with Reading this season.
It’s a testament to Jaap Stam’s character that he had failed to notice Reading’s FA Cup draw last month that reunited him with Manchester United. “I knew it [the draw] was in the beginning of December, and Stevie [Reid] sent me a text message with the draw,” he said. “At first, because he was talking about ‘an interesting game’ I thought he was talking about the game on Saturday [against Sheffield Wednesday].”
La Liga Leaks: Dybala ‘waiting for Madrid call’, N’Zonzi ‘to reject Premier interest & join Juve’
Senor Rumor Andrew Gaffney wraps the latest transfer rumours and going-ons from La Liga.
While the British media has predictably jumped on the fine form of Dele Alli to suggest he’s likely to be the most sought-after signing this summer, over in Spain, it appears Paulo Dybala is the latest player Barcelona and Real Madrid will battle over.
Football: 'Hopefully I'll be on my own soon!' - Rooney wants United history after equalling Charlton record
Equalling Bobby Charlton's Manchester United goalscoring record was an honour for Wayne Rooney - but now he wants it all to himself.
Wayne Rooney has now set his sights on breaking Manchester United's goalscoring record after drawing level with Bobby Charlton in Saturday's FA Cup third-round win over Reading.
Rooney equals Charlton's Man Utd all-time goalscoring record
The FA Cup now provides a welcome chance for a rest, not excitement
The FA Cup is not what it once was. That’s been true for a long time, and obvious for almost as long. The older fans and players have a sense of nostalgia about the competition, about the best game it produced, and lament that it used to be the traditional bookend to the season. Winning the FA Cup was not as important as winning the league, but it meant something significant nonetheless. Now, it’s more of a consolation for a manager on his way out, or a way for a mid-table side to experience some fleeting success.
There have been some sensible suggestions made in order to improve it, but even these are admissions of defeat. If replays were abolished, then it would expunge one of the main traditions of the tournament, the FA Cup replay. The replay that allows a lower league side to take a top division team back to their intimidating ground, or to make a trip to a Premier League stadium, with the money that comes with it. Preserving the FA Cup by removing one of its rare qualities is, in some ways, not preserving it at all.