" PAPARAZZI:" " Wayne, Wayne!" " CROWD CHANTS:" " Rooney!" "Rooney!" "Ever since he was 16 years old, he's lived his life in the public eye." " COMMENTATOR:" " Rooney!" "Yet no-one outside his family and close friends really knows him." "PAPARAZZI CALL OUT" " COMMENTATOR:" " Charlton." "Oh, yes!" "Sir Bobby Charlton scored the last of his 49 goals for England in 1970, a record Wayne Rooney has finally broken." "I came close, stuck on 48 more than 20 years ago." " COMMENTATOR:" " Rooney for England history." "And he blasts it high into the net!" "Now, Rooney has become the nation's greatest goal-scorer." "But who is he?" "Who is the Wayne Rooney beyond the tabloid headlines and away from the glare of the floodlights?" "Good goal." "For the first time, Wayne invites us into his life." " Do it from there." " We spend time with him at home, with his wife Coleen and their two young boys, Kai and Klay." "We journey back with him to unearth his Liverpool roots." " Thank you very much." "Ta, Wayne." " See you later." " See you later, thanks." " And to meet the parents who gave him the foundations on which to build a life of fame and football." "We speak to men who managed him... ..and superstars who played with him." "And sometimes against him." "We discover the real Wayne Rooney, a man watched by millions and known by few." "Welcome to Wayne's world." " COMMENTATOR:" " What a goal!" "Oh, what a goal!" " CROWD CHANTS:" " Rooney!" "Rooney!" "What's Wayne Rooney like away from football?" "Off the pitch, I'm quite quiet." "A big family man, I love spending time with my wife and children." "Is your bum all wet?" "Let's see your nose again." "One, two, three... whoo!" "When you meet him, he is shy until he gets to know you, and then he just doesn't shut up." "Shall we go down to Daddy?" "Let me wipe your nose." "'He's just a normal lad." "He just wants a normal life' and he wants to play football." "How important has Coleen been to you?" "Outside of football, she's the strong one," " so she's..." " She's the boss?" "Yeah, she makes all the decisions." "She's a great mum and she's great for me and great for the children." "'We're both from strong, down-to-earth families." "'We're both different characters.'" "If Wayne needs telling off, I'll tell him off and then vice-versa, but we get on well." " We're mates." " KAI CRIES OUT" "Hey!" "Do you think you live pretty much an ordinary life?" "Yeah, it's quite boring, to be honest." "Outside of football, you go home, pick the kids up from school or play with the kids in the garden." " Watch this." " It's quite impressive." "He's very strong for his age." "You're good at gymnastics, aren't you, Kai?" " Who wants to see my back flip?" " Me!" " OK." "Take your shoes off." "No, wait till you get on there." "'I'm happy the way I live my life." "'The way I am outside of football with my family,'" "I couldn't ask for anything different, really." "Keep hold, Klay." "Quick, get on!" " You're getting off." " KLAY WAILS" " Let's go and get a cake." " Either of them got the Rooney temper?" " Him." " Has he?" " You've mellowed, though, you've mellowed." " Yeah." "You do when you get a bit older." " If he doesn't get his own way, nightmare." " Really?" "Shall we go in?" "Have you got any footballs?" "COLEEN CHUCKLES" "Oh, there's more down there as well." "The whole house has turned into kiddie-land." "This is Crocky now, Croxteth, where I'm from." "Obviously, it's had its moments, with a bit of... ..violence or a bit of trouble over the years, but I love the area and this has really helped me become the person I am." "You can live in a big house, driving nice cars and stuff, but I'm from here, this is in me." "Regardless of what you achieve in life," "I think it's always going to be the place where I grew up and where I learned a lot about life." "This road here," "I could go anywhere on the road, but I weren't allowed off it." "Used to have a ball quite a bit on here as well, in this little piece of grass here, kicking with my brothers." "Wayne Rooney grew up in a tough part of Liverpool, the eldest of three brothers from a working-class family." "The grey house here, that's where I grew up." "My brother lives there now and my other brother lives two doors down." "That's where... my nan lives." "Lived." "Matt, all right?" "I've just been driving round and stuff." "Going through a few old things." "See you later." "Yeah, that's my cousin's fella." "They live there now in my nan's old house." "Wayne's parents, Jeanette and Wayne Snr, have stayed close to the family's roots." "We're just a normal family." "I had three jobs to get them where they was today and give them everything that we could give them at the time." "They weren't spoiled, but they got what they needed." "I was a cleaner, I worked on a sweet van and I'm a dinner lady," "I still work now as a dinner lady." "We're coming up now to my senior school." "My mum still works there now." "My mum worked there when I was there." "All the kids, they all have banter with my mum over me playing for Man United and stuff, so it's a good school to grow up in." "We kept his school reports from the academy." "He got "good conduct in IT lessons."" "That's one of his praise cards from school." "That's a certificate of attendance - 95% attendance at school." "They were never off, never allowed to be off." "He had a very busy lifestyle as a young child with his football." "They all did, the three of them." "That's the youth club." "It was right next to my house, which was handy." "There was a five-a-side pitch." "That's where I used to jump over and play on my own." "He'd jump over the back of the fence of the football pitches of a night, wouldn't he, Wayne?" " Yeah, he was always in the street playing." " Football mad." "Summer mornings, he'd be out at half past six in the morning." "We lived over the road from his nan - his nan would be screaming out the window, "Wayne, get in!"" "This is where I played for Copplehouse." "I scored lots of goals on these pitches." "Games used to be, like, 15-0 and stuff." "I'd score eight, ten goals a game." "When he was about seven or eight, when he was playing for Copplehouse, he was playing the under-11s." "That's when Liverpool picked him up." "They went up to my dad after the game and said," ""We'd like Wayne to come down and train with Liverpool" ""and have a trial."" "My dad told me when I got home that night and I remember thinking..." " HE EXHALES" " I didn't really want to." "I went down in my Everton kit, which the coaches weren't too pleased about." "The next day, I think Everton, they found out that I'd gone for a trial at Liverpool and phoned up straight away the next day." "When Everton came in," ""Let's go to Everton."" "As soon as I knew that Everton had phoned up," "I was never going back, to be honest." "Delighted to be with the club his family loved," "Wayne made rapid progress." "Word of the boyhood genius quickly got round." "Everyone wanted to catch a glimpse." "This name kept coming up to me, "Wayne Rooney, Wayne Rooney," ""have you seen anything, have you heard of him?" ""He's a great player." There was a video going round of him scoring a few goals for Everton's academy and I was aware of him before I met him, and then I went down to watch him." "He won't know this, but I went to watch him in a game and he scored a couple of goals and he had the Scouse swagger and the Scouse attitude and I thought, "Yeah..." I quite liked what I seen." "New manager David Moyes arrived at Everton unaware of the rough diamond in his ranks." "When I took over the job at Everton, I think it was Walter Smith, he says, "you're lucky," ""there's a boy in the academy called Wayne Rooney."" "The first time I got to see him was a final of the FA Youth Cup." "I remember tapping him on the shoulder and saying," ""You'll be with me next year."" "And so, aged just 16," "Wayne was a Premier League player." " COMMENTATOR:" " A young man whose name is embroidered on more shirts than any other in the Everton club shop, 16-year-old Wayne Rooney." "I made my debut in August, so this was the October and I still hadn't scored in the league." "I really wanted to try and score before I was 17." " COMMENTATOR:" " Five days short of his 17th birthday." " I came off the bench and scored the winner." " It was some goal." "Yeah, it was still one of my best." "Gravesen forward." "Rooney, instant control." "Fancies his chances..." "Oh!" "Brilliant goal!" "A brilliant goal!" "When I see that goal, I still get goose bumps." "Remember the name!" "Wayne Rooney!" "The Arsenal game, I never seen the goal." "Everyone jumped up." "Didn't they?" "I had to ask him who scored." " COMMENTATOR:" " It's Premiership history, the big league's youngest ever goal-scorer." "I remember going back in the dressing room after the game." "It was the Everton supporters I could hear down the streets and I hadn't really heard it." "They were bouncing - the singing, the noise from the dressing room." "FANS CHANT" " STADIUM ANNOUNCER:" " Number 18, Wayne Rooney!" "CROWD ROARS" "Having scored the winner against Arsenal, the 16-year-old was too young to celebrate with his team-mates, so he went back to Croxteth for his second game that day." "These are the garages where, when I scored against Arsenal, this is where I came back to play after that game." "The garages have gone now, the garages went to there." "I'd be getting told, when I came in the next day, I'd be going mad." ""Rooney's been out playing in the streets again with his pals!"" "I says, "He's just played!"" "He wasn't out having a full game or that." "He might have been keeping the ball up with his pals," " but that's what he done." " All right, mate?" "All right?" "That's why he probably is as grounded as he is, because I think his background has kept him very level." " Hey, Maddie." "You OK?" " Hello, Wayne!" " Ain't seen you for ages." " Hello!" " You OK?" " How're you doing?" " Nice to see you." " Yeah, you too." "I still have a little gamble on you, you know." "THEY LAUGH" "Yeah, we're just doing, like, a documentary on England and stuff." "Isn't that lovely?" "Oh, you're looking well, Wayne, anyway." "Telling them how good it is round here." "SHE LAUGHS" "Good to see you." "I'm going to go and do this." " All right, Joe...er, Wayne." "Cheerio, love." " Tara." "John, how are you?" "That's where Coleen's mum and dad lived, and Coleen lived." "I'd be playing here with Coleen's brothers, a few other lads." "When we finished, we'd go and sit on Coleen's wall talking and we'd just go on walks together, talking and stuff." "You told me that Coleen basically wears the trousers in the house." "Is she quite bossy?" "She can be, yeah." " I'm organised." " Yeah, she is very organised." "Obviously, as you know, we let them think they're in charge, until they push you." "You'd forget everything and anything" " if I hadn't told you what to do." " No, I do, I'm quite..." "If she asks me to do something, I say, "Yeah, I'll do it in a minute."" "I end up forgetting," " or..." " Or I ask him to take stuff in, if someone has a baby, or it's one of the other players' kids' birthdays and I'll say," ""Will you take that in and give it to them?"" "Weeks later, he'll open the boot of his car and there's still the present in the back of the car." "Thank you cards for our kids, a year later still in the car." " It's not a year." " It was!" "Kai's ones were still a year later." "Never ever got them, I had to just text them in the end." "This was actually where... where I had my first date with Coleen, in the Showcase Cinemas here." "We went to watch Austin Powers." "He always used to, like, shout things, "Give us a date!"" " And things like that." " He chased you from an early age?" "Yeah, he did, yeah." "In the end, he got his way, and we went to the pictures." "So, that's where we had our first date, and it all started, really, with me and Coleen." " She asked you, didn't she?" " Yeah." " Going to the pictures." "Yeah, she asked her dad if it was all right." "I said, "Yeah, as long as you sit in the front row," ""and he sits in the back."" "He loved her." "You could see it." "He proposed on the petrol station." "They were supposed to be going for a meal somewhere, but he couldn't wait." "So I think he must have got the engagement ring out on the petrol station, yeah." "So, they never went for the meal." "They come home, and ate corned beef hash." "I used to love writing poems before I was with Coleen, just normal poems." "I don't know why." "I used to like to write little stories." "So, when I first got with Coleen, I used to write a lot of poems and... they've died down a bit of late." "Recently, we went on holiday." "I went to bed with the kids." "And then when I got up the next morning, there was a poem on the side that he left me, which was nice." " I don't suppose you'd show us, would you?" " Oh, no." "I've got a collection somewhere, so, yeah, someone'll find them when I'm gone." " PHOTOGRAPHER:" " And just looking towards each other for a second." " To you, or...?" " Just to each other." "They were Britain's youngest celebrity couple." "Coleen was still at school." "Not that the pressure seemed to bother Wayne." "The Premier League was his playground." "He was physically developed." "He didn't mind getting tackled." "He enjoyed tackling himself." "'Wayne Rooney!" "'He's won it!" "Wonder boy's done it again!" "'" "You knew straightaway you weren't paying against a kid." "You were playing against a man." "In his first game at Old Trafford, I went to close him down, and he just knocked the ball past me." "I thought," ""Whoa, what happened then?"" "Because he kept producing on the pitch, the front of the paper discovered that this boy can sell papers." "PHOTOGRAPHERS SHOUT "WAYNE!"" "KAI LAUGHS" "Now we've got kids, he finds the fame hard." "The football, he absolutely loves." "He could do that till he dies, but the fame thing he hates." "Do you want lemonade?" "We went to Blackpool the other day." "I turned my hood up." "I was hiding." "So, she's like, take your hood down." "I said, "I know what's going to happen soon as I take it down."" "So, I went, "All right," took it down, and just..." "Mobbed." "Does that get to you, sometimes?" "Sometimes." "I think when you're with the kids, it does." "A lot of people come over for pictures, and I'm not getting that time." "I keep having to stop to take pictures or autographs." "Success so early brought scrutiny, and the young couple and their families were unprepared for life in the full glare of the public eye." "When she first went to school, there was a cameraman who had the bonnet of the car up and took a picture of her." "They were sitting outside school all the time and... it wasn't nice." "They used to camp out in the shared car park." "I'd be coming out to go to work, normal people, and cameras were just following you." "They with there." "We weren't used to that." "Just didn't like it." "When I first started getting into the public eye, and Wayne did," "I used to buy every newspaper, every magazine." "And now I don't buy one." "I've phoned a few journalists in my time, said, "How can you" ""write things about me, and you don't know me," ""you don't know my family?"" "The family's relationship with the press was uneasy, but there were times when the young Wayne Rooney didn't help himself." "He was young, and he done some stupid things, like most lads." "But, obviously, Wayne's Wayne Rooney and he got a lot of press over it." "So everyone got to find out what he was doing, when he was doing..." " Did that make you angry?" "And upset?" " Yeah, obviously." "There's things, you know, petty things that make me angry that he does." "And I just think, why do it?" "Because, you know, it's going to..." "But it's part and parcel of growing up in the public eye." "And some things you do and you don't do again." "On the pitch, there were no such concerns." "Wayne's burgeoning talent had outgrown club football." "He now needed a national stage." "The big news here at the Stadium of Light is that Wayne Rooney is about to become the youngest English player ever to start a full international." "I took in the senior players, and had a meeting with them, and said, "This young boy, I think he's ready to play in a big game."" "And they all said, "Yes." "Sven, play him, play him." "He's ready."" "If you're a manager with great experience, making a decision like that is not difficult." "If you're good enough, then you'll get picked and you'll play." "'Oh, what a backheel 'by Rooney to Beckham." "'Rooney, still so eager to get 'the ball." "And to go past opponents!" "'Here he is again, Rooney.'" "'Soon as he gets the ball, 'the whole ground stands up expectant.'" "'Oh, it's going to be a standing ovation for Rooney." "'Listen to this!" "'" "'He'll have some great nights in his career, 'but he'll never forget this one.'" "You were exceptional that day." "That was the moment, I think, that the nation thought, "We've got a special player."" "It was, I think, still, to this day, one of my best games I've played for England." "Did things noticeably change at that point?" "Around Liverpool, it did, yeah." "Both with Everton and Liverpool fans." "They were proud to have someone from the area doing well." "Liverpool is a big footballing city, and there's a lot of working class people who are proud to be from the city, and they take their football serious, and the support you get once, you know, your area, where you're from," "realises they've got someone who's a very good footballer, and then the city realises, the whole city get behind you as a player." "My two sons, they were born here." "So, I live up in Manchester, but, you know, in terms of where my sons were born, I was always going to come back home and make sure they were born in Liverpool." "That's my first goal for England." " KAI:" " Was that your first goal for England?" " Yeah." " No, it wasn't." " It was!" " It wasn't." " How do you know?" "That was two years ago." " Oh, it was more than two years ago, that one." " Four." " More." "It says there, 2003." "So, what is it now?" "2015." "So, 18 years ago." "THEY LAUGH" " How old was you then, 12 years ago?" " 17." " 17." " How old was you?" " 17." "I was still at school." " Still at school when he's scoring goals for England." " You were 16." " 16." "'Here's Hesky." "'Now Rooney's following up here." "'Wayne Rooney has become 'the youngest goal-scorer 'in England's international history!" "'" "For England fans, so long starved of hope," "Wayne Rooney was like a gift from the footballing gods." "His goals proved vital as the team qualified for the European Championship of 2004." "In Portugal that summer, the dreams of a nation rested firmly on his teenage shoulders." "'So much for the hype and build-up." "Now for the real thing.'" "'Oh, Rooney!" "'England score, it's Wayne Rooney, 'who becomes the youngest scorer 'in the European Championship finals." "'Oh, Rooney!" "'The teenage terror strikes again." "'And almost certainly gives England three points.'" "I'm thinking, we've got one of the best players in the tournament, maybe one of the best players in the world." "That's at 18." "You start going back to players who are in the top tournaments and you're thinking of Maradonas, Peles, people like this." "'It can go on again to Wayne Rooney." "'And Rooney's shot..." "'It's a goal!" "Oh, fabulous!" "'" "If he goes on playing like that, the whole tournament, who knows where we will arrive, because he was on fire." "'And now here's Rooney, with Owen just checking his run 'to make sure he doesn't go offside." "'He's got Rooney in, and Rooney's onside!" "'They're expectant here, 'and he delivers!" "'Sensational!" "'" "I felt unstoppable at that point, going into the quarterfinals against Portugal." "'Here we go, for a place in the semifinal of Euro 2004.'" "I remember the morning of the game after breakfast, walking past him, saying, "I can't wait for tonight."" "I never heard a footballer say that before." "This feeling of no fear whatsoever." "'Here's Rooney, 'and he's pestering Jorge Andrade'." "The defender stood on my foot, and it was obviously painful." "I tried to run it off, not aware of what it was at the time." "As a manager, you're getting worried, thinking no, no, no." "'I don't think Rooney can continue." "'Are England going to lose the 18-year-old 'who has set this tournament alight?" "'" "I was getting wheeled to a Portuguese hospital in my England kit while the game was on in the corner." "'Oh, England are out of the European Championship.'" "Watching the penalties, it was so hard to watch." "'So, so cruel.'" "You think, possibly, Wayne, that if you hadn't had that injury," " do you think England could have won that?" " I believe we could have, yeah." "At the time, I felt I was going to go on scoring every game, and help us win the tournament." "Although the summer ended in disappointment, for Wayne Rooney, life would never be the same again." "His performances on a global stage brought suitors, and Everton began to lose a grip on their most important fan." "Goodison." "It's a special place." "There's a pub facing the players' entrance." "My dad would go in about an hour before the game." "The atmosphere was brilliant in there." "And we'd come outside, and go into the game." "And then when I got a little bit older, started to come on my own when I was about 14, so I'd get the bus to the game, and then walk home." "It was quite a long way, as well." "I'd always walk the first half of it, and then when it was getting dark, I'd end up into a little jog, and when I was getting closer, I'd end up sprinting home." "Wayne's love of Everton was heartfelt, but when Manchester United made their move, he felt he couldn't resist." " PHOTOGRAPHER:" " This way, Wayne, please." "Thank you." "This way, David." "Boss." "How difficult was it to leave Everton?" "Yeah, it was very difficult." "I felt, in terms of me furthering my career, I had to leave the club I've played for since I was nine, and supported, the club I love." "Evertonians are so proud." "This was their boy the whole world was talking about." "They said, "We hate you so much because we loved you so much."" "My family were getting a lot of stick," "Coleen's family getting a lot of stick." "Sometimes you don't realise the consequences when you make such a decision." "When players of that potential become available, you have to be alive to it." "Was Sir Alex Ferguson a big influence in that?" "Was he quite persuasive?" "He was the reason why I wanted to join Man United, to work with him." "In my eyes, the best manager of all time." "For him to be interested and want me to come and play under him, there was nowhere else I was going to go." "'The ball played through to Wayne Rooney, 'edge of the penalty area, shoots and scores!" "'What a debut, what a goal!" "'Wayne Rooney scores for Manchester United!" "Old Trafford erupts!" "Some players come to big clubs and it doesn't quite happen." "But he was going to make the most of it." "'Rooney turns, shoots and scores again!" "What a debut!" "'" "He was the kid of England." "Everyone loved him." "He was so powerful." "I always called him the Pit Bull." "'Oh, it had to be!" "'Wayne Rooney scores a fantastic hat-trick 'on his debut for Manchester United!" "'Old Trafford has a new hero.'" "What's in here?" "Look at this." "Stevie Gerard." "That's the new one, is it?" "Stephen got that for you when we were on tour." " He sent it over for you, didn't he?" " It's quite a collection." "He doesn't really swap that much." "It's only recently that he's started." "I think you start appreciating things more when you've got kids." " Let me guess..." " He has curly hair." "Curly hair..." "David Luiz." "Yay!" "And Kai now, when he plays someone, he says," ""Will you get me so-and-so's shirt?"" "or, "Will you get me so-and-so's boots?"" "Kai's starting to want to watch every game now." "I had to sit up, didn't I, to watch West Ham away in the Europa league." "GARY LAUGHS" " Who's the best England player you've played with?" " I've got to say Stevie." "For me, he's an incredible player, and an incredible leader." "He helped me a lot in my early days at England." "'Beckham taking the inside route now." "'Steven Gerrard in good position." "'Good knock-back." "Rooney!" "'Wayne Rooney has done it again.'" "He's from Croxteth, I'm from Huyton, similar areas." "And I just went out of my way to try and put my arm around him and try and help him, and let him know that there was someone there to help him if he needed it." "I loved playing with David Beckham." "For a striker, you know you can make a run, and he'll put it on your head or in the space for you." "'David Beckham." "'Now he's got Rooney ahead of him, and Rooney's in here for England!" "'And he scores!" "'" "There's certain players you play with throughout your career that you like playing with for different reasons." "Wayne hits all those reasons." "'Beckham with the flick on." "Rooney!" "'" "You knew that he'd run through a brick wall for you, for hisself, for the team, for the fans." "That's the type of player you want playing for England." "He become one of the main men in the set-up, and one of the characters in the set-up from the off, really." "He's big, personality wise." "He's got friends all over the squad." "He's always mixing with different players at different times." "It's important for a squad that you have personalities like that around." "'Oh, Gary Neville!" "'Wayne Rooney for England.'" "He'd knacker you out to be in his company, cos he's always on the move." "He sits next to you, five minutes later, he's over there next to someone else." "He was the energy in the dressing room." "If Wayne had become inspirational for his club, he was indispensable for his country." "As the World Cup in 2006 drew close, the nation held its breath." "'Rooney here is in some pain.'" "Before the World Cup in Germany, I broke my foot at Chelsea." "We knew there was something wrong because Wayne was very strong, and to see him rolling on the floor, we knew he was in pain." "And he'd done something bad." "'An injury to Rooney with the World Cup just over a month away.'" "There were some big discussions for a whole build-up to the World Cup, is he ready, is he not ready?" "All the taxi drivers, the same question, "Will he be ready?"" ""Well, we don't know yet."" "It was like a national trauma when you got injured." "'Any news, Wayne?" "'" " Everyone was willing you fit." " 'Good or bad news?" "'" "You could feel the excitement building, obviously, around the World Cup, and it was touch and go whether I was going to be fit." "And then Sven put me in the squad." "It became a fight between Ferguson and myself." "He said, "Don't dare take him to the World Cup." That's his threat." ""You don't take him."" "But there would have been a revolution in England if I don't pick him." "They would have thrown me into the sea." "Looking back, if I was going to go back in time, then I'd probably would have sat out of the World Cup because it was a big ask to get fit after six weeks out not playing." "I was never really going to have that match sharpness." "He returned to the team but without the fitness or form needed for a World Cup." "Frustrated, angry with himself," "Wayne's combustible temperament was ready to blow." "'Look at Rooney there, battling away." "'Now, that was right under the nose of the referee." "'And there is a bit of angst going on here." "And he's in trouble." "'And Ronaldo straightaway 'was shirting at the referee to do something." "'And the referee has gone to his pocket." "It's red!" "'He's sent Rooney off!" " 'Look at this, look at that." " Did he just wink then?" "'" "I not regret what I did because when you play for your country, you defend your colours." "So I didn't do nothing bad." "Cristiano Ronaldo, was there any bitterness towards him?" " Not at all." " At the time, it was a big deal." " Yeah, I spoke to him that day right after the game." "And that was it." "He understand my point of view of that moment." "He say, "Cristiano, it's past, the accident is gone," ""let's speak about the present," ""let's win trophies, let's play together like we did before."" "We're still friends." "They create a big drama, which is never exist." "'He's done it!" "'Portugal are through and England are out of the World Cup.'" "He probably felt like he let everyone down and the country down." "And he did, but he didn't hide or sulk, or feel sorry for himself." "He took the responsibility and moved on." "When the players come in, I apologised to everyone." "They put so much effort in." "Getting the red card, the way I did it, it was really disappointing." "I felt I let everyone down, and it was a dark day for me." "Everybody in that dressing room knew that he will be very, very important for England for many years ahead." "So...you forgive him." "Of course you do." "You, much more than me for the next years, need Wayne Rooney." "So pay attention, please." "He is the golden boy of English football." "Don't kill him, I beg you, because you will need him." "Sven, without a doubt, was a player's coach." "He was a player's manager." "He supported the players, he would protect the players." "He could have come out and said, if Wayne would have been out there, we'd have won." "But he didn't." "And that's the right thing to do." "You seem to have mellowed over the years." "Have you worked at it?" "I got into professional football at 16." "And I've always been a fiery character, and that's showed in the way I play football." "'And look at Rooney there." "And he's going to go here." "'Rooney has been booked, 'and has just hurled the ball furiously back towards the referee." "'It's a show of dissent, the way he hurled the ball angrily back." "'And it continues." "The corner flag cops it.'" "Now and again throughout his career, he has let himself down a wee bit where he's too aggressive." "But when you're a young lad, you go through periods like that, where you let yourself down a bit." "'The header falls to Rooney!" "'What a special strike!" "'" "I think if you watch the Newcastle volley that he scores, he's actually arguing with the ref, and the ball drops to him, and he takes his anger out on the ball, and just volleys it into the top corner from 25 yards." "So, as long as you can channel your anger in the right way, then, for some players, they need it." "A lot of people say, well, he wouldn't be the same player if he didn't have that." "There's times when I was playing the game, and you lose your head, and you're out of the game for five minutes." "Now I think more about the game than I did when I was younger." "I think, certainly, having my children has calmed me down a bit." " KAI:" " Leg!" " COLEEN:" " He's caring." "He's protective." "And he's fun." "He's quite strict, and I never thought he would be like that." "I always thought I'd be the stricter one." "But he doesn't really have them messing." "But then, other times, he is like a big kid with them." "So he allows them to play football in the lounge." "There's balls flying everywhere." "So, it's quite hard work with two young boys." "Another one on the way." "Hopefully, it's a girl." "I think that would be nice." "And then we'd stop then." "LAUGHTER" " That'll be it." " No..." "Boys are fun, aren't they?" " Yes." "They're loving, but they are nonstop, constantly." "Who's winning?" " Him." " Him?" "Who's him?" " Two shots." "This was Daddy's room, wasn't it, but then all your stuff's in here now." " We go out every Thursday, don't we?" " Yes." " Just the two of us, so..." "Don't tell them what day because people will know..." " Hang around on Thursdays, see where you go!" " We go to the cinema." " We've got a few different cinemas, haven't we?" " There's loads." "Loads around here!" "I want another round." "THEY LAUGH" "You're not watching Lion King?" "When people used to say, "Oh, date night,"" "I used to say, "Whatever." But I think you do need it." " Just time on your own is good, isn't it?" " Yeah." "You don't talk, like..." "Even sitting in a restaurant and not having to look after the kids and constantly on at the kids." "Even when we're in the house, until the kids are in bed and we sit down, we watch a bit of telly and we have a talk then, don't we?" "But when the kids are there, they're constantly interrupting us." "Kai is just nonstop." " You give Kai one as well." " No!" " Oh, why?" "Go and watch Lion King, then." "Go on, are you going upstairs to watch Lion King?" "Kai, do you want some popcorn?" "Wayne Rooney is more than a footballer." "He's part of an elite group of international stars who transcend the game." "Swedish legend Zlatan Ibrahimovic and former team-mate" "Cristiano Ronaldo are both in football's top tier." "And they're paid-up members of the Rooney fan club." "These great players, they have their moments, one, two, three years." "But to continue for five years, for ten years like Wayne Rooney has done it, it's not easy, it's pressure every day, playing for a big team every day." "'Rooney!" "Oh, what a goal.'" "The power of Wayne Rooney is his mentality and his strength, and he never stops." "'Ronaldo, disguised ball to Rooney." "Lovely combination.'" " IBRAHIMOVIC:" " He runs a lot, he fights a lot, he sacrifices a lot." " RONALDO:" " He's a fantastic team player." "And he scores goals." "'Wayne Rooney for Manchester United!" "'What a goal!" "Oh, what a goal!" "'" "When he played with Cristiano, all the work was done by Wayne Rooney but he didn't get the credit that Ronaldo got because Ronaldo was scoring all the amazing goals." "'Rooney." "Through for Ronaldo." "'Rooney, Ronaldo, 2-0.'" "We win every trophy." "The league, Carling cup, the Champions League." "Inside the pitch, we are like a team." "So, fantastic boy, and he helped me a lot when he come to join us in Manchester." "I prefer to have him in my team than play against him." "I didn't have that luck." "And, I mean, I enjoy seeing him on the pitch when he's playing." "So if I cannot play with him, I will watch him." "I miss him to play with him, but the future nobody knows." "Maybe we'll play one day together again." "'Rooney, oh, that is absolutely fantastic!" "'Manchester United, 2, Manchester City, 1." "'That is very, very special." "And that is Wayne Rooney.'" "The England goal-scoring record lasted 45 years." "Manchester United's World Cup winner Sir Bobby Charlton broke the record in 1968, and scored his 49th and final goal for England in Colombia in 1970." "'Charlton." "'Oh, yes!" "'" "'And here's Rooney." "Oh, what a goal!" "'" "'Lineker!" "Oh!" "'" "So, we've got one, two and three." "A few goals between us, anyway." "'Lineker, far side, coming in on it now." "Magnificent goal!" "'" "There's nothing like it, is there?" "No." "To play for England, it's brilliant, great honour, but when you actually score, it's another..." "For me, it's another level." "'And Rooney's there!" "'" "It's going to be great when you actually do it." "Hopefully, yeah it'll be great." " The record has stood for so long, so..." " 45 years." "45 years you've held that record." "'And Charlton gets the goal, 'and all the England players come up to congratulate him." "I suppose, in many ways, it's really nice for you that the person that beats it is not only a Manchester United player, but the Manchester United captain." "I'm so happy that he's with our club, and he's with England, and he's going to score a lot more goals." "'Rooney...yes!" "'" "It is amazing, obviously, to score goals, but I think the pinnacle is to win the World Cup." "'This great moment in England sporting history, 'and Bobby Charlton weeping with emotion.'" "Football is the most fantastic game throughout the world." "And if you get into the position with Wayne, with what I did, and what you almost did... it's just fantastic." "I'm really, really pleased that Wayne will pass my little record." "I'm a little bit disappointed that it's not going to be mine any more." "But you are a credit to England." "And I feel so proud." " You've got a lot of guitars." "Do you play the guitar?" " No." " I collect them." " You collect them?" "They're all off different people." "Signed and stuff." "There's me one off Noel Gallagher here." "Did he sign it?" " Bet he's put something on there." " He painted the whole thing." "You started collecting them years ago, didn't you, but Christmas and birthdays, if I can get the right person to sign, then it's the easy way out." " This one's off Paul McCartney." " Paul McCartney?" " Yeah." "It's quite a collection." " My karaoke machine." " HE LAUGHS" "You hog the mic, don't you?" "No-one can get it off him." "Everyone's waiting for a turn, and it's just, "One more, I'll just sing one more."" "You like a bit of Oasis, don't you?" "Mustang Sally." "He likes a bit of that." "I tried it when we had the lads' Christmas night out." "We had a band on, and it ended up the band was just took over." "We had David de Gea on the drums, Juan Mata playing the guitar, me singing." "It was the wrong atmosphere, I tried to do a soul song." "I just got booed off." "For Wayne, World Cups have been a source of disappointment." "None more so than South Africa in 2010." "I think that's certainly a bad point in terms of how we performed as a team, and how I performed personally." "Another poor performance from England." "Boos ring around the Cape Town Stadium." "Nice to see your home fans booing you, that's what loyal support is." "It was stupid of me to do that." "I was frustrated with my own game, frustrated with the team's game." "He would probably say now that it was a mistake." "I think probably any of us that did that." "But there's something to be said for someone who is impulsive and says," ""I don't care, I'm frustrated at the minute and I'll open my mouth."" "I think we all had that inside us," "I just think Wayne had the bottle to say it." "You know, I think that is Wayne being real." "Wayne Rooney has not managed to find the net at the World Cup." "Why do you think that it's not gone that well for you in tournaments, bar the first one, obviously, when you were a revelation?" "I go into tournaments and I'm always confident." "For some reason, it just hasn't happened." "I don't know whether I put too much pressure on myself." "Johnson's cross, Rooney is there!" "Wayne Rooney's first ever World Cup finals goal." "The last tournament, as disappointing as it was, in terms of my own performance, my own fitness," "I felt as good as I've ever felt in a tournament." "It was just a shame that, as a team, we didn't go further." "CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICK" "The time I've enjoyed playing for England most is under Sven and now under Roy Hodgson." "The time in between that, I weren't... enjoying it as much as I should have." "CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICK" "The one I've been most excited about was Fabio Capello, with his record when he come in..." " Was that a disappointment, ultimately?" " Yeah." " It was?" " It was, yeah." " In what way?" "Just..." "I expected a bit more." "It's in!" "Rooney has scored, with his 43rd goal for England!" " What are Wayne's great strengths?" " I think it's his enormous professionalism on the field of play, for the job that he's being asked to do." "And England have another goal!" "And would you believe it, it's Wayne Rooney!" "Whatever job you give him, he's going to really try and do that job as you and the team want it to be done and, you know, not all star players give you that." "What's his weakness?" "When he was younger, there are probably things that have happened to him off the field, where he's made mistakes in the past, but you know, footballers are human beings, we have to remember that." "As far as I'm concerned, the past is the past." "Throughout your club football career, you've had the odd fall-out with managers " "David Moyes, and Sir Alex Ferguson." "It's not just me who's had a fall-out with Alex Ferguson!" "I think many players have, some have left, some have stayed." "In 2010, concerned at a perceived lack of ambition at Old Trafford," "Wayne seemed destined to leave and announced to the world he was ready to go." "We were just about to go out onto the pitch." "We watched the actual television in the dressing room, so it came up, "Wayne Rooney makes statement."" "Why is he doing it?" "You can speculate, we can have opinions, it won't matter a dickie bird." "He let himself down and I think that myself and Ryan had a word with him the next day and he actually came into the dressing room and apologised." "As a professional footballer, if you're good enough, people are going to take notice, but no matter how far matters went, Wayne made the ultimate decision, which was, "I want to stay,"" "and he did stay." "But relations with Sir Alex Ferguson were strained and in his final season, the Manchester United manager increasingly left Wayne out of the team." "I went in to see him and I just said," ""If you're not going to play me, it might be better for me to move on,"" "and then, you know, all of a sudden it was all over the press that I've put a transfer request in, which..." "I never did, so..." "I don't know what happened, why that came out that way." "Wayne Rooney, to a great cheer!" "He didn't get on today, didn't get on the bench today." "Wayne Rooney has put in a transfer request." "Will you be accepting it?" "No, I've refused it." "In your heart of hearts, will he be here next season?" "Well, it's not my decision now, sorry." "Ferguson out, former Everton boss David Moyes in, but how would they get on?" "After leaving Everton, Rooney had publicly accused Moyes of mishandling his development." "Everyone wanted to speak to the young star, but Moyes said no." "At the time, Wayne felt he was being stifled." "Back then, I didn't realise what he was trying to do," "I was quite outspoken myself and he was obviously trying to protect me and at the time, I didn't agree with what he was doing." "It was only a few years later, when I realised what he was doing was good for me and I called him up and apologised for some of the words I said to him and he was great with me." "Wayne came on the phone, he says," ""I just want to apologise for what I'd said," ""I've done the wrong thing," and right away" "I said, "Fine, no problem."" "At that time, I realised the maturity in Wayne." "It's what parents see in their children, growing up at different ages." "Four years after that phone call," "David Moyes faced an immediate problem at his new club." "Wayne was unsettled and unsure if United really wanted him to stay." "Unfortunately for him, it was just bad timing with my situation." "I bet he couldn't believe it when he came in, sort of thought, "Here we go again."" "Rooney goes for the extraordinary!" "It's an unbelievable goal from Wayne Rooney!" "Wayne just needed to be loved a bit." "I don't think Wayne ever looked for any special treatment and he done great for me, I've got to say, in my short time at Manchester United." "With maturity came responsibility and, for club and country, captaincy." "I had in my mind for quite a long time that Wayne would be the man." "Fortunately for me, it's coincided with him being made captain of Manchester United as well, by his manager there." "He was always an example in the training sessions, but he is also a social human being and that I have seen." "'Rooney, he's going to go 'on his own here." "Rooney!" "'" "I was a little bit surprised because, as a manager, you read all the stories and they were not always positive." "Wayne Rooney delivers the knockout blow!" "He's very important for me, not only on the pitch, but also off the pitch." "Since he's took over the captaincy, he's been getting the boys to bond and go out for a meal together and he knows that that's important." "I saw a big change in Wayne when he became England captain." "All of a sudden there was a maturity in his game and in his personality and the way he was handling himself." "Now the ball is in the penalty area." "Well back for the shot, back to Rooney and Rooney is there to head it in!" "His 47th goal for England!" " What have you got?" " Two to level." " Two to level?" " Three to..." "Yeah, you'll be fine." " You'll get that in one game, done." " Get them in the next two games, lad." "Job done." "I'm clean through and I need you squaring it," "I'm not going to square it to you." "I'm going alone!" "I need a lot of players to go down, get a penalty." "You want us to do your running, don't you, all us young lads?" "Trying to find Walcott." "Here's Rooney!" "Rooney scores!" "He moves on to 48 goals for his country!" "Not good for the barnet, this wind." "We've got a great atmosphere amongst the squad." "When you play for your clubs, you want to beat them, but when you turn up at England, you know, we're all in it together." "Who's the centre half with Keane?" "'England captain, Man United captain,' he loves it." "He loves that role of being a mentor really." "He's always been good with the young players coming through." "He can be playing PlayStation with an 18-year-old one minute, play golf with a group of 25-year-olds the next minute, he can be sat in the meeting room being a little bit more mature and talking, you know, as captain of the team" "and he has that ability to be able to live in the different age groups." "We have, like, a games room, which the lads all chill out in." "We have PlayStations, Xboxes." "I normally go United." "A lot of lads go Barcelona or Real Madrid, but it's cheating really because their stats on it are too high." "Rooney comes forward now, right-footed, sends the goalkeeper the wrong way." "And Wayne Rooney stands on the brink of history." "He is now level with Sir Bobby Charlton." "What a goal that is!" "Who hit that?" "The spirit now and the chemistry, with him as captain, is absolutely incredible because, like I say, he connects everybody together cos he's everyone's mate." "'Might have been tripped there..." "He was!" "And it's a penalty to England!" "'And this means that Wayne Rooney is going to have his chance here, 'from the penalty spot." "'Rooney for England history from the penalty spot." "'Right footed, 'and he blasts it high into the net!" "'A brilliantly taken penalty by Wayne Rooney 'and Bobby Charlton's England goal-scoring record has gone." "'He's held it since 1968." "'But it belongs to Wayne Rooney now.'" "To play for your country, it's a big honour." "To be the captain for your country, even bigger." "But to break the record as a striker, I mean, it's amazing." "I have to say congratulation to him," "I know how hard it is to be the number one." "It's unbelievable what he's achieved, he's just kept going." "This goal record, it's something to be really proud of." "The one thing we'll all have against us, and maybe Wayne will go on to do this, is we never won the World Cup." "Not many of us have, as an Englishman, there's only one select group that have but it doesn't mean you can write off every other team since then." "It doesn't mean you can write off Gary Lineker, it doesn't mean you can write off people like Bryan Robson, who are England greats in their own eras and Wayne is one of those." "Thank you to everyone here, coaches, players, staff that I've worked with for such a long time, this is such a huge moment for myself and my family and in my career, so, hopefully, for the team," "for myself, there's a lot more to come." "'Rooney's following up here." "'Wayne Rooney has become the youngest goal-scorer in England's 'international history.'" "'Brilliant goal!" "Brilliant goal!" "'It had to be." "'Oh, and it's an unbelievable goal." "'Rooney, oh!" "That is absolutely fantastic." "What a goal!" "'Oh, what a goal." "'Remember the name" " Wayne Rooney.'" "In years to come, I can tell me children, me grandkids, that I played with Rooney many, many times for England, and I set him up for a few of them goals." "He will continue to break records." "I hope he goes on and breaks the all-time cap record because he's young enough to do it, he's fit enough to do it, he's mature enough to do it and, without a doubt," "we all know he's good enough to do it." "Kai." "Come here, mate." "Does he play up front?" "He's just come back from footie saying he wants to be a goalie." "A goalie?" "!" "I told him, you need to be the striker." " STADIUM ANNOUNCER:" " Number eight, Wayne Rooney." "CROWD CHEERS" "CROWD CHANTS:" "Rooney, Rooney, Rooney."