Excellent work by Defoe, to shut up those idiots at ITV....
How can so-called football 'experts' be calling for Defoe to be omitted, because, according to them, the Rooney-Defoe partnership doesn't work? If that was the case, then Rooney is the one who should be dropped, not Defoe. Thankfully, it worked well, Rooney providing three or four assists, and Defoe finishing like the predator he is. Rooney is much better playing just behind a striker like Defoe, since the latter has more pace and a better predator's instinct than Rooney.
Some of these English commentators worship at the altar of certain players, like Rooney, Gerrard, Lampard and Terry. If they play badly, it's the fault of the other seven players, and never to do with them....
