Rooney kept waiting but 84th-minute penalty sees Manchester United striker leave Sir Bobby Charlton behind as England’s top scorerWell,that’s that then. Goodbye traditional, cherished, or unattainably distant Bobby. Hello,original, grudgingly embraced, and but still unattainably distant Wayne Rooney,who is now out on his own as England’s record scorer and the first man to reach the half-century after scoring the second goal in an otherwise straightforward 2-0 domestic defeat of Switzerland at Wembley Stadium.
Albeit, for long periods the game had looked to be meandering away from its central moment of tension as England huffed and fretted and – Harry Kane’s fine opening goal aside – looked unlikely to provide Rooney with his moment. England play Estonia in October. Four more weeks of damage beckoned, or another month yoked together with the relentlessly exhumed spectre of the great,and the exceedingly patient Sir Bobby.
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Source: theguardian.com