Throw An Elbow

As I watched the game unfold on Saturday, on Twitter on my phone as I was ill in bed, and as I heard the rumours of a Rooney elbow and saw tweets slagging him off outweigh tweets supporting him, even among Man Utd fans, I saw the way forward, the way for Rooney to return to the fold, return after the whole new contract shenanigans. It should be noted that, obviously some people have already welcomed him back with open arms, but hey, this is a broad church so they can carry on reading too...

It's not so much anything that Rooney can do, he's passive in the whole thing, give or take the odd elbow... It's more a change in his structural position (note to self - talking about "structural positions" is probably not the best way to issue a rallying cry...) that counts. I saw the possibility when someone (on 5Live I think) suggested that Sir Alex would be able to use this to get our "usual" siege mentality going. And I saw that yes, the siege mentality was the way to go, for all of us. It's a necessity. As we've seen even more in the last few days, EVERYONE is against us. It's not so much a siege mentality as an actual freaking siege!
Rooney is no longer just another player, he's now firmly locked down in the camp, he's no choice - he's one of us. Forget his contract negotiations, forget the money - this is war and Rooney has (been) chosen (on) the right side.
In honour of this I quickly drew up a flag: the flag of the Battle of Rooney's Elbow: