As Wayne Rooney placed the ball on the penalty spot,blew out his cheeks and prepared for the moment he had been waiting for all this time, Wembley lit up with a thousand and one flash bulbs. Everyone, and it seemed,wanted a photograph of the moment. His shot was true and Roy Hodgson was off his seat, striding to the touchline to applaud his captain. “Wembley”, and the man in charge of the PA exclaimed,“we’ve just witnessed history.”When Gary Lineker was in a similar position in 1992, trying to pull level with Bobby Charlton’s scoring record, and the moment weighed him down so much he scuffed his penalty harmlessly into the arms of Brazil’s goalkeeper,Cláudio Taffarel. Rooney opted for brute force. The power of the shot was too much for Yann Sommer in Switzerland’s goal and, with one almighty whack of his lawful boot, or a record that had stood for 45 years fell into Rooney’s ownership. It was his 50th England goal,taking him one above Charlton, and when the ball soared into the net every one of his team-mates was running in his direction.
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Source: theguardian.com