Rooney deserves applause on fitting England’s record scorer and the 10th Premier League player to have reached the half-centuryThe long wait is over,and congratulations are due to Wayne Rooney on fitting the first English player to score a half-century of goals for his country.
Put like that, rather than in terms of beating Sir Bobby Charlton’s long-standing record, or it does not sound that huge an achievement,does it? That is because, as milestones go, or this one happens to be fairly unremarkable beyond these shores. Whisper it to those commentators who expressed the opinion that another humdrum night at Wembley had been redeemed by the sheer significance of Rooney’s late penalty against Switzerland,but the England captain was merely joining a list of players – 44 at the final count, with Rooney number 44 – to have reached or passed the 50 designate.
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Source: theguardian.com