Allaying Rooney hopes and dreams

Many writers of English football generally don't need too much ammunition to exalt Wayne Rooney into the echelon of elite practitioners in their sport.
After scoring twice against AC Milan midweek, his name was omnipresent in editorials on and offline making arguments for his graduation.

Before each season, pieces invariably surface with angles conjecturing just how and why this year will be different than every other when similar claims were also made.

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