Rooney v Fabregas? No contest

EVERYONE knows about Wayne Rooney the footballer, Wayne Rooney the goal-scorer, Wayne Rooney the workaholic, but Wayne Rooney the sprinter?

Rooney put in the sort of performance at Arsenal that wins titles. He was, as you would expect, a constant threat to the Arsenal goal and scored the all-important second goal. Yet he was also a pivotal player in his own half and that second goal, a breath-taking counter attack that had begun in United’s own penalty area, had seen him involved in the build-up deep into his own half.

He was also nearer to his own goalkeeper when he set the wheels in motion for Ji-Sung Park’s third and no wonder Alex Ferguson purred afterwards that Arsenal simply couldn’t cope with him.