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Kent Bonfire Society To Burn 50ft Wayne Rooney Effigy (Photos)

By Ollie Irish

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Artist Frank Shepherd puts the final touches to the Edenbridge Celebrity Guy in Edenbridge, Kent, which this year is Wayne Rooney, ahead of the town's bonfire night display on Saturday.

A Kent bonfire society has unveiled a 50ft Wayne Rooney as its celebrity Guy.

The giant effigy is filled with fireworks and sports a pair of fetching green Shrek-style ears and a Man Utd shirt. The highly flammable Rooney is also holding a copy of his lucrative new contract under one arm and a big bag full of money in the other. Satirical effigies, eh. God love em.

Rooney will be set on fire at Edenbridge Bonfire Society’s display, which is one of the most popular displays in England.

The society’s spokesman, Charles Laver, said: “I hate football myself so I’m quite happy to burn a footballer. One of our members is a big Man U fan, so he’s been advising us on getting all the details of the kit just right.”

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By Ollie Irish on November 3rd, 2010 in Featured, Funnies, Man Utd, Photos. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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7 Responses to “Kent Bonfire Society To Burn 50ft Wayne Rooney Effigy (Photos)”

  1. SeanBCFC says:

    very good stuff! im sick of wayne rooney! this is only good news ive heard about the twat in months!

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  3. sammiee says:

    i dont care i about him no more hez shite thats wat he gets GO ON WID DA BURN !!!!!!

  4. adam says:

    I think burning Rooney will go down a treat :) would be an amazing display and would take ages to burn. Must of taken a while to complete so well done to the artist.

    I have found some amazing sports memorabilia that is delivered free in the UK.

    http://www.sportsidols.co.uk/

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  6. Sunshine says:

    Something that I saw about these actions are really cruel and sad, why? because it makes me to think that English people have a bad deal with the people who lives in the same country.
    It´s really disgusting watching those kind of actions.

    I think it´s really sad because Rooney has an amazing trayectory as an English player and many fans, and How it´s possible that people criticizing him jus because is having problems in the matches.
    Soccer is not just to score goal, soccer is to try to have a good attitude in the matches and to be intelligent for getting up.
    When I saw Rooney playing soccer I saw a boy who has a good attitud toward the game and he never give up.

    The people have to learn to watch beyond of the matches.

    No one is perfect and no one should be criticizing him.

    The practice and the patience are the tools more important for getting a proppose.

    I believe in Rooney and I admire his attitude toward the game.

    ¡ Come on Rooney I know that you can do it!

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