Congratulations to Portugal, I'm not sure you deserve to be there, I am however sure we don't deserve to be there
Rooney was sent off for the "push" hence the bad feeling towards Ronaldo, as he was chirping trying to get Rooney in trouble and he managed it. Rooney was trying to stay on his feet whilst being fouled by 2 players, I don't think it was a stamp, he was just adjusting his stance to try (foolishly in this day and age) to stay upright, he should have just gone over like he'd been shot at Ronaldo did on many occasions. I wouldn;'t defend any player for stamping if I thought they meant it especially an ex Everton player whos now at ManUre, but I really don't think it was a stamp
Don't any of you tell me for one minute that you don't look to see who you would likely be playing in the next rounds of any sporting competition, be it football, egg chasing, cricket, tiddlywinks or curling whether you are English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, German, Aussie etc and wether it's national competition or club competition. The only reason you all see it with England is because you are watching English based TV or reading English based papers, though I seem to remember a TON of coverage of USA94 when England weren't there but the Republic was
easy to forget when it doesn't happen often. The media coverage in France, Brazil, Germany, Spain and Portugal is likely to have been dominated by how well they are going to do and who they will play in the next rounds.
Arfie