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# Ashley Cole and Wayne Rooney show becomes secondary to classic Chelsea v
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Manchester United duel
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## Contrary to the melodramatic protestations of Sir Alex Ferguson and Carlo
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Ancelotti, nobody appeared to be in the mood to either kill Ashley Cole or
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electrocute Wayne Rooney at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday night.
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![Ashley Cole and Wayne Rooney -Ashley Cole and Wayne Rooney show becomes
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secondary to classic Chelsea v Manchester United duel][1]
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In the line of fire: Ashley Cole and Wayne Rooney (right) were under the
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spotlight at Stamford Bridge following their latest transgressions Photo: PA
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By [Ian Chadband][4] 11:28PM GMT 01 Mar 2011
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It may have been billed as the bad boys' battle at the Bridge but the entire
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match turned out to be so dizzyingly breathless and compelling that the duel
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of the miscreants thankfully became swept up as a merely intriguing sub-plot
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amid quite epic fare.
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Rather, plenty of pantomime jeering and the oh so predictable cries of
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"shooooot!" whenever Cole received the ball within about 70 yards of the
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**[Manchester United][7]** goal seemed to be the order of the night as if
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nobody here was about to take this tale of two foolish boys overly seriously.
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Anyway, when it comes to sinning, memories are of goldfish-length in the
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Premier League as long as there's enough star quality about.
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By the end of a pulsating evening, the attention had turned to other
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individuals. The home faithful were not talking about Cole but of the splendid
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derring-do of their new instant frizzy haired icon, David Luiz. Heck, this lad
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is going to be a star at the Bridge.
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Doubtless Gary Neville, now a face in the crowd, was left raging about another
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Vidic sending off, while others will have joined Fergie's rant about referee
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Martin Atkinson and a soft penalty.
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## Related Articles
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* [Chelsea 2 Manchester United 1][8]
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01 Mar 2011
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* [Chelsea v United ratings][9]
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01 Mar 2011
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* [Chelsea v United action][10]
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01 Mar 2011
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* [Ferguson attacks referee][11]
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02 Mar 2011
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* [Rough diamond Luiz outshines Vidic][12]
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01 Mar 2011
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* [Ancelotti talks down Chelsea hopes][13]
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01 Mar 2011
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Yet, mainly, everyone was left reflecting on a quite thunderous game played at
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a breakneck pace which may have given **[Chelsea][14]** the faintest dream of
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retaining their title. And, yes, our two misfiring heroes played a vibrant
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part.
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Naturally, it had all begun with 40,000-odd marvelling why either were there
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at all. In a saner world, Cole would have been made an example of by his club
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and been left reflecting on his utter idiocy at mucking around with firearms,
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while Rooney would have been serving a suspension for unashamedly using his
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elbow as an offensive weapon.
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Instead, they were out there large as life, one spared by Chelsea's
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spinelessness in responding to an act which would have caused instant
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dismissal in right-thinking workplaces and the other by Mark Clattenburg's
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feebleness in not acknowledging a blatant mistake.
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And the common theme? Both were both protected by their own vast celebrity.
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Still, they seemed wholly unaffected by the constant ridicule out there.
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Rooney was lively, his goal a thing of beauty, while Cole foraged forward to
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his heart's content once he realised he was going to be faced by Darren
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Fletcher rather than Nani.
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There are those who will swear blind after this weekend that the pair must be
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thick; that may be totally unfair but their thickest of skins could not be in
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dispute.
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For a large part of the night, it looked as if there would only be one winner
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in this tale within a saga, with Rooney making the Chelsea faithful curse
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Clattenburg.
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His performance was a little hit and miss but still one of his better efforts
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of a see-saw season.
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And when he was offered preposterous amounts of time and space by Ivanovic and
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co, he launched a bullet which, naturally, the jokers reckoned Cole would have
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been proud of firing.
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Ferguson thinks there is a witch-hunt against Rooney, that we want to pounce
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gleefully on every misdemeanour or moment of indiscipline.
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Nonsense: more precisely, those who chronicle the finest English talent of his
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generation long to see Rooney back to the unstoppable force of late 2009 and
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early 2010 before he got clouted on the ankle against Bayern Munich.
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Football wants and needs a transcendent Rooney, not a transgressing Rooney and
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at least we were treated, gladly, to more of the former than the latter as he
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powered through from deep, instrumental in counter-attacks of speed and
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precision.
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OK, so there was one of his 'I'm going to start a war in an empty room'
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moments when he immediately roared to his feet after losing the ball and
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barged straight into Ramires, sending him sprawling. It was reminiscent of his
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little moment of red mist retaliation on Saturday.
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And he also missed a sitter when Nani's cross found him unmarked in the box
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and his header skewed off his bonce so embarrassingly that it seemed to sum up
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the worst aspects of his season. Yet within minutes he had hit the target
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unerringly.
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As for Cole? Well, much to the glee of the United supporters behind the goal,
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he did answer their cry of "shoooot!" once with one which sailed high, wide
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and not very handsome.
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Still, the poorer marksman had the last laugh.
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