Every major tournament where rooney fails to deliver on the big stage, the excuses begin to get trotted out by us united fans. Last time it was he wasn't fit because he was allegedly rushed back from injury even though he was only out for 2 weeks. Euro 2006 the same thing the injury excuse and now euro 2012 he doesn;t start the first two games because of his own stupidity and we're meant to believe that's the reason why he can't pass accurately, control the ball or take on any players and run out of puff after an hour. I think we should be honest with ourselves instead of being like deluded liverpool supporters and say rooney isn't as good as he;'s made out to be. Before his return for the Ukraine game the media was calling him pele, the only pictures of the camp where of him and he couldn't deliever once again. The pressure got to him. He's not on Ronaldo's level. Look at how Ronaldo responded to the critiscism leveled towards him after the denmark game. The next game he came out all guns blazing and delievered. When has rooney ever lived up to the hype or proved his critics wrong when the heat started to turn up on him in a big tournament? I tell you, never.