Wayne Rooney has enjoyed a fine season for Man Utd which all England fans are praying will continue during the World Cup.
Professional Footballers' association announce nominees for Players' Player of the Year and Young Player of the Year
Wayne Rooney has enjoyed a breathtaking season for Manchester United which all England fans are praying will continue during this summer's World Cup.
Despite his obvious prodigious talents, Rooney still had to cope with sniping from a minority of critics who claimed the 24-year-old lacked the goals needed to make him a true great.
How he has responded to those who doubted him. At the time of his nomination for the PFA Players' Player of the Year award, Rooney has bagged an astonishing 34 goals in all competitions for the Red Devils in the most prolific season of his career.
Handed the central striking role he has always coveted but was unable to always assume when Cristiano Ronaldo was in his pomp, the former Everton youngster has demonstrated that he is one of the most complete players in the modern game.
On top of his lethal form in front of goal, Rooney boasts an astonishing effervescence, work-rate and will to win which he brings to all aspects of his play.
Defenders who are up against the powerful forward cannot relax or lose concentration for a second or they risk finding themselves in the slipstream of a departing red blur.
Rooney boasts astonishing ball control, supreme skill, great physical presence, an eye for the spectacular and has even added an aerial ability to his armoury this season.
Four goals in two games against AC Milan as the Red Devils put the Italian giants to the sword in the UEFA Champions League last-16 were an undoubted highlight of his season.
And he has bagged domestic hat-tricks against Portsmouth and Hull City on top of spearheading England's charge to the World Cup finals under Fabio Capello.
A fourth successive Premier League crown remains a possibility for Rooney and United, but the sight which would mean so much more to the nation would be of the striker holding aloft the World Cup in South Africa this summer.
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