@Mwenza,
Don't be blinded by your loyalty.You don't have to be a fan of a team to appreciate a good game......and i haven't forgotten only that imho,Liverpool/Hammers was a far much better game.

@bkismat
I marvel at your praise of Rooney but do you know he falls way short of potent strikers to have graced the Premier league, the top four are Andy Cole,Alan Shearer, Ruud Van Nistelroy and Fernando Torres in that order.

Interesting to note he also laggs behind Kevin Phillips,Jermaine Defoe,Darren Bent, Didier Drogba,Anelka (this are current players in the premier league)

I wonder why Fergie Keeps him???

Rooney is on top form right now. World class. If he keeps form, then England will be a team to reckon with. Ric dees, your list is flawed. Why do you add Torres in that list? Sure, he's good, but what has he won? How dare you forget Thierry Henry?

@all I can understand the doubt about the list i had put together and as someone said sure Henry is def upthere with the best.

However in order to gauge how potent a striker is, football analysts have put different milestones and in this case the most widely used/accepted is the 50 goal mark vis a vis the number of games played, and it is this list i put forward and also used by coaches before they sign a striker/what is interesting to note is that there is a caption that keeps playing weekend in weekend out on supersport about the four that i have mentioned and their exceptional exploits. one lucky season is not enough to gauge a striker as i believe rooney is having. Sure he is a good a striker,exceptional not in my books.
For a team as good as Man U he should be upthere with the best mark you 2 of the top four are former Man U players and also to mention Ole Solksjaer is in the top 10 and he was mostly used as a sub...says a lot about rooneys scoring ability.

If one compares rooney with all the other strikers in world class clubs then you will see my point..Torres,Drogba, Van Persie,Etoo, Pato, Ibrahimovic,Higuain,Klose et al..where does rooney rank in this list??

Rooney Man Utd 23
Drogba Chelsea 19
Defoe Tottenham 16
Bent Sunderland 15
Saha Everton 13
Tevez Man City 13
Fabregas Arsenal 12
Torres Liverpool 12
Agbonlahor Aston Villa 11
Lampard Chelsea 10

If anybody can compare Rooney with Andy Cole..........then end of story, NO ARGUMENT. How do you compare water with oil?

Between Andy Cole and Dwight Yorke i will go for the latter anytime....And they played under the same circumstances.

Though a strikers role is to score goal Rooney is a complete footballer.He looks for the ball by himself at times and scores.he is also ready to do defensive duty.the same cannot be said of some of the so called world class strikers. i never saw ruud van score a goal out of the 18 yard box and neither did i see him dribble the ball past one opposing player. phillipo inzaghi same story

@All... Why are we arguing with somebody who wonders why 'Fergie keeps him'?

In the 1999/2000 season Kevin Phillips Scored 30 goals for sunderland in his first stint in the premiership, In fact his 30th goal game against chelsea at the bridge where they won 4-1.In this season he won the premiership golden boot and the European Golden boot award, currently he is the only Englishman to have won the latter....so much for wayne Rooney.

Kevin phillips plays for birmingham now coming in as a sub, you see why am not excited about the exploits of Rooney this season???

Rooney:appearances 351 goals 141. goals per game ratio is 0.4
Torres:appearances 368 goals 176. goals per game ratio is 0.48
I don't see much difference between the 2