{"id":300562,"date":"2023-12-17T23:24:21","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T23:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/?p=300562"},"modified":"2023-12-17T23:24:21","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T23:24:21","slug":"matt-barlow-rooney-and-vardy-forever-bound-by-wagatha-christie-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/soccer\/matt-barlow-rooney-and-vardy-forever-bound-by-wagatha-christie-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"MATT BARLOW: Rooney and Vardy forever bound by Wagatha Christie trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1> MATT BARLOW: Wayne Rooney and Jamie Vardy &#8211; football legends but bound forever by the self-obsessed yet amusing Wagatha Christie trial<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Wayne Rooney and Jamie Vardy will always be linked by Wagatha Christie trial<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span>Rooney&#8217;s Birmingham face Leicester but Vardy will be missing due to injury<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>CHRIS SUTTON: Erik ten Hag was WRONG to say Man United played well after their abysmal Champions League exit&#8230; is he losing credibility? It&#8217;s All Kicking Off\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Well, you can hardly blame the Vardys if there is a change of heart and they come shuffling into St Andrew\u2019s just before kick-off.<\/p>\n<p>Like late arrivals in the public gallery amid clattering chairs and a hasty rearrangement of the seating plan and audible gasps from onlookers shocked by their temerity.<\/p>\n<p>You never know, it might be one final chance to savour a morsel of revenge, a small victory in response to that courtroom rinsing by the Rooneys.<\/p>\n<p>This time it might be Wayne squirming in suffocating confines. Pacing his technical zone with the look of King Midas in reverse. Nothing has turned to gold since his appointment as Birmingham City boss.<\/p>\n<p>Quite the opposite, and a club who had been shaping up for the first positive season in a decade after finally escaping the shackles of rotten ownership have slid back into familiar territory in the lower half of the Championship.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/17\/20\/79062675-12874559-image-m-99_1702846360109.jpg\" height=\"460\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Wayne Rooney and Jamie Vardy are bound forever by the Wagatha Christie trial<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/17\/20\/79062673-12874559-image-a-126_1702846541329.jpg\" height=\"465\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Birmingham, managed by Rooney, will face Leicester, but Vardy is out with a knee injury<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/17\/21\/79062835-12874559-image-a-133_1702846824946.jpg\" height=\"459\" width=\"306\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/17\/21\/79062843-12874559-image-m-132_1702846818310.jpg\" height=\"459\" width=\"306\"><\/p>\n<p>The Wagatha Christie trial involving Coleen Rooney (L) and Rebekah Vardy (R) received much attention<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>You have to hand it to their chief executive Garry Cook, he really knows how to insult his paying public.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, it was Cook who, back in 2008, belittled Manchester City\u2019s popular long-serving captain Richard Dunne and shunted him off to Aston Villa after claiming his name won\u2019t sell shirts in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>Then, in October, he fired John Eustace at Birmingham three days after a thumping home win against West Midland rivals West Bromwich Albion because of the need for a clear \u2018no fear\u2019 playing style.<\/p>\n<p>There will be no fear on Leicester\u2019s team bus as it rolls down the M69, that much is for sure. They are top of the Championship and seemingly over the November blip, on course for promotion back to the Premier League under Enzo Maresca.<\/p>\n<p>Rooney, meanwhile, continues to grapple with his managerial career. He emerged with some credit from his handling of a financial crisis at Derby County and did little of note at DC United in Washington before landing the job at Birmingham under their new, ambitious American owners.<\/p>\n<p>Blues have won once at home since. A scratchy one against Sheffield Wednesday, about a week before the Owls realised the season has started. They eked out a first away win last week at Cardiff but the jury is firmly out on this vanity appointment.<\/p>\n<p>You can\u2019t fault Cook\u2019s sense of theatre though, sacking Eustace on the fourth anniversary of Coleen\u2019s grand revelation about Rebekah leaking stories from her private Instagram account, then serving up the tantalising prospect of a footballing postscript to the whole faintly amusing if hugely profligate and massively self-obsessed Wagatha Christie trial.<\/p>\n<p>If only Vardy wasn\u2019t out with a knee injury. He will be 37 in January and is out of contract at the end of the season. There is talk of a possible new deal but at this rate, there is no guarantee Wayne will survive in his job until the reverse fixture at the King Power in April so this could be the last time we see their worlds collide.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/17\/21\/79062863-12874559-image-a-134_1702846952805.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Wayne Rooney has had a tough time as Birmingham boss with the jury out on his spell in charge<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/17\/21\/79063491-12874559-image-a-140_1702847743131.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Vardy&#8217;s Leicester are seemingly on track for promotion under Enzo Maresca&#8217;s guidance<\/p>\n<p>Two of the great English strikers of their era, born to score goals with compelling careers forged from adversity and fiery personalities with unashamed flaws and vulnerabilities, certainly worthy of the movie treatment in their own right.<\/p>\n<p>One bursting from the Croxteth streets at 17, instantly cast as the elusive missing link for the Golden Generation, shattering goal records for Manchester United and England. Arguably the finest footballer we have produced this side of the World Cup winners. The other with scars of rejection from the professional game, flirting with crime while climbing out of Sheffield\u2019s local leagues and rescaling the football pyramid to inspire the Leicester miracle of 2016.<\/p>\n<p>They were born only 15 months apart and yet Rooney had won his five Premier League titles by the time Vardy made it to the top flight. When Vardy came off the bench for his England debut in a goalless draw in Dublin he replaced Rooney, who was winning his 104th cap.<\/p>\n<p>The brief overlap of their international careers involved the low-ebb ignominy of Iceland at Euro 2016 and yet here they are, bound for ever by their wives, a family feud and a libel trial.<\/p>\n<p>Legends eclipsed by the ingenious portmanteau of Wagatha Christie.<\/p>\n<p><span>McCullum is top dog\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>West Ham beat 13 clubs to sign teenager Paul McCallum for \u00a360,000 from Dulwich Hamlet on deadline day in January 2011. It didn\u2019t work out for him at that level but McCallum has enjoyed a prolific career in the lower leagues. Now 30 and in his second spell at Eastleigh, he is the top scorer in the National League with 18 goals in 18 games after two in a 5-3 win at Aldershot on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/17\/21\/79062929-12874559-image-a-135_1702847115488.jpg\" height=\"432\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Eastleigh&#8217;s Paul McCallum is the top scorer in the National League this season with 18 goals<\/p>\n<p><span>Harry Welfare&#8217;s legendary status\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>South American champions Fluminense, who start their Club World Cup campaign this week, are the club of Waldo, Didi and Tele Santana. More recently of Thiago Silva and Richarlison.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They are also the club of Harry Welfare, a teacher and part-time footballer, who made four appearances as an amateur for Liverpool before taking a job in Rio de Janeiro in 1913. Teaching PE at the school he joined in Brazil was JA Quincey-Taylor, who also happened to be first-team coach at Fluminense, and encouraged him along for a game. Welfare went on to score 163 goals in 166 appearances and not even a successful coaching career at rivals Vasco da Gama has damaged his legendary status.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>Southend shambles continues<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Southend United shambles is plumbing new depths. Paralysed by the combined forces of an incomplete takeover, years of misery under Ron Martin and a National League transfer embargo, they had only a dozen players available for Saturday\u2019s game against Bromley, with no strikers and one goalkeeper, David Martin, who was injured and forced off in the second half. They were 2-0 down when wing-back Gus Scott-Morriss went in goal. They pulled one back but another gallant defeat does little for them. They need an end to the inertia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>IT&#8217;S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><span><span>It&#8217;s All Kicking Off is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube, Apple Music and Spotify.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p><span>Lockyer is Luton&#8217;s rock<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Reporting regularly on Luton Town\u2019s rise has been a delight thanks to the unpretentious nature of a club like no other in the Premier League. Tom Lockyer embodies all they stand for. From Bristol Rovers and Charlton, he has fought his way to the top of his profession and earned deserved plaudits. He has matured into Luton\u2019s spiritual leader and I would like to wish him a full and speedy recovery on behalf of everyone here at Mail Sport.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/17\/21\/79063249-12874559-image-a-138_1702847477556.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Tom Lockyer embodies all that Luton stand for and Mail Sport wishes him a speedy recovery<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12874559\/MATT-BARLOW-Wayne-Rooney-Jamie-Vardy-football-legends-Wagatha-Christie-trial.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MATT BARLOW: Wayne Rooney and Jamie Vardy &#8211; football legends but bound forever by the self-obsessed yet amusing Wagatha Christie trial Wayne Rooney and Jamie Vardy will always be linked by Wagatha Christie trial Rooney&#8217;s Birmingham face Leicester but Vardy will be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>MATT BARLOW: Rooney and Vardy forever bound by Wagatha Christie trial - Sports-Life-News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/soccer\/matt-barlow-rooney-and-vardy-forever-bound-by-wagatha-christie-trial\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MATT BARLOW: Rooney and Vardy forever bound by Wagatha Christie trial - Sports-Life-News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"MATT BARLOW: Wayne Rooney and Jamie Vardy &#8211; 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