Sam Allardyce takes ridiculous stance on Wayne Rooney and England role

The 30-year-old was given his record start against Slovakia by new manager Sam Allardyce, who opted to pair the United striker in attack with Tottenham’s Harry Kane.

‘There is only one place at the World Cup.

Yet Allardyce was thankful that luck was on his side, and credited the win to a coin given to him by a young boy in a wheelchair at the team’s hotel earlier in the day.

“There were a few challenges that I felt could have earned him a yellow card but it didn’t come”, Kane said. I had it with me in my pocket, we won, so it’ll stay with me. “You’ve got to beat ten men and even if we weren’t as clinical as I expected us to be, we richly deserved it based on us dominating the game”. “To be going into it from a real position of strength, maybe that happens in the future, maybe it doesn’t?”

“We have had a really good camp, good training sessions and we are delighted to reward him with a win”. “I wonder how far it will take us”.

The first target is just making it to the finals in Russian Federation in 2018.

Allardyce, nicknamed “Big Sam”, succeeded Roy Hodgson after England’s humiliating Euro 2016 elimination by Iceland.

However, Rooney, making his 116th appearance in a Three Lions shirt, played largely in a midfield role, deeper than many were expecting with suggestions prior to kick off that he would be deployed in a No.10 position.

But there was just enough left in the tank for England to snatch a late win and move on from their Euro 2016 humiliation at the hands of Iceland as Lallana, who had earlier hit the post before a Theo Walcott strike was ruled out for offside, struck his first global goal.

“It’s been a long time coming”, Lallana said. “To score that goal was a huge relief for me. It was only when we went a man down that they created more”. “I can’t stop Wayne playing there”, he said.

The 30-year-old Manchester United forward has announced his intention to hang up his England boots after the 2018 World Cup in Russian Federation – but Shilton feels he should already have done so.