Form is Temporary, Class is Permanent

Wayne Rooney went into the Premier League fixture with the eye's of the world on him. For the first time in his short career people had started to question his ability, barely twenty and labelled the "White Pelé" yet people found it possible to question whether his career would go as so many had believed it would.

Having being rushed back during the World Cup in Germany and then having a ridiculous ban stop his preparations for the season Rooney had played seven games in as many months.

Despite a roaring start to the season versus Fulham, he had returned only to play poorly for United, off the pace a little and a shadow of the strutting, arrogant footballer, who bows to no one and backs up his ability against the very best in the world.

Many sources in the pathetic English media had blamed him for their World Cup exit, after a month of tears over his metatarsal injury. Many sources in the English media had blamed him for England's pathetic performances versus Macedonia and Croatia. Those same sources also claimed he'd lost it, he'd never be the same again and most of all "is he that good?".

They had built this player up and were prepared to knock him down, all the while though United and the United fans had stood by their player. They knew he'd come good, it was only a matter of time he just needed to build his fitness. For fuck sake he's Le Blanc Pelé, the best thing to hit Old Trafford since Le Roi, the King, Cantona.

Everyone wanted to know why he was going through this spell and how long it'd last, Fergie claimed the media wanted it to last as long as possible as it'd sell them more papers than if he didn't have a bad spell.

Coming up next was Wigan, the team he had scored four times against in three appearances last season, the team he had won his first proper trophy against, he had to turn up for this one!

Rooney displayed a performance of character, passion, ability, skill and threw everything back at those "brainless idiots", as Paul Jewell put it, who questioned him.
When he challenged Emerson Boyce, got the ball despite being pulled all over the place, ran though three defenders got fouled, bounced straight back up and only for an illegal two footed challenge to go unpenalised would have tore the Wigan defence to shreds further.

His second half display proved he had never gone anywhere, he was still the same Waz. Fergie was enraged at the doubters and earlier in the week blasted them by saying:
"Sometimes young players start believing what they read and it can be destructive. I have seen it many times. He's your number one seller. You had Paul Gascoigne, David Beckham, George Best. You look for a hero that you can sell papers with and he's your hero at the moment."

Fergie had seen it all before, he knew the media were trying to knock down one of his star men and Rooney must have knew it too. After flipping the "V" sign at the England fans who gave him some abuse, he flipped the "V" sign at those writers in the media who had doubted him.

Never had the term "Form is Temporary, Class is Permanent" meant so much, Rooney had never gone anywhere he was just building his fitness up after Sven and the FA had rushed him back from a foot injury.

Fergie said, "That was Wayne's best display of the season!"..and with the Bin Dippers, Liverpool, the favourites for the title who have dropped as many points as they have won this season coming to Old Trafford next weekend Fergie and the United fans will be licking their lips at the prospect of ''the Wayne Rooney show'' returning to the Theatre of Dreams.