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Failed Innovations in Brand Extension #3715: Imprisoning Wayne Rooney in the Magical Forest of Fangorn as Part of a Misguided Attempt to Develop a Club-Themed Vintage Fiction Market

Wayne Rooney looks curiously happy as an Ent.

The Two Towers are of course Scholes and Giggsy.

“Hrum, hoom!” said Rooney. “Do not be hasty, that’s my motto.”

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Failed Innovations in Brand Extension #3715: Imprisoning Wayne Rooney in the Magical Forest of Fangorn as Part of a Misguided Attempt to Develop a Club-Themed Vintage Fiction Market

by Brian Phillips · October 19, 2009

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