In news that comes just a little bit late to help Cavaliers fans, police were called to the English home of Wayne Rooney after an angry mob gathered just outside chanting, ‘Join Man City and you die.’ Rooney is rumored to be considering a move to rival Manchester City due to unhappiness with the Man United front office. Here’s a paragraph you don’t see every day, via the London Daily Telegraph:
The group, which consisted of men wearing balaclavas and Eric Cantona-masks, descended on Rooney’s family home around 8.30 p.m, when police were called to assist.
Cantona masks? Some kind soccer-literate reader is going to have to explain that one.
UPDATE: Hoodies off folks, he’s staying. Rooney has signed a five-year deal with Man United.
Photo via The Spoiler.
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Wayne Rooney’s house besieged by angry Manchester United fans [London Telegraph]
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- Bill - Oct 21, 2010 at 8:36 PM
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Eric Cantona, a french man was a star player for Man United some few years ago. He is still worshiped by Man U fans
The masks were of his face just like a Richard Nixon face at halloween.
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- Rick Chandler - Oct 22, 2010 at 12:40 AM
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Thanks Bill. Here’s your +1 for the assist.
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- Oli - Oct 22, 2010 at 5:20 AM
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In a recent Ken Loach film called Looking for Eric, which has cult status, a group of fans also descended on the villain of the film’s house in Cantona masks.
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- GM - Oct 22, 2010 at 5:32 AM
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… jeez you brits take football too seriously.
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- ABooth - Oct 22, 2010 at 8:43 AM
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GM “… jeez you brits take football too seriously.”
No we don’t. It’s just that you non Brits. (Yank or Canuck I suspect) don’t take football seriously enough.
These 2 teams have been in Manchester for a long time and are ingrained into Manchester culture. Rivalries between them and other clubs, such as Liverpool have been running for over a hundred years. Families have generations following the same team. It’s a very personal thing when your club is betrayed. It’s part of the fabric of your being, after all.
Of course, you wouldn’t know that.
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- theolgoaler - Oct 23, 2010 at 11:30 AM
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Oh, really? Go talk to a Cleveland Cavaliers fan, mate! No, “Yanks” don’t take your version of football seriously; we take baseball, our version of football, basketball, and (in some locales) hockey seriously indeed! By the way, in the southern part of the US of A, a “Yankee” is either a baseball player in New York, or a pain in the neck! DON’T call a guy from, say, Mississippi, a “Yank”!
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