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Always remember, Wayne Rooney lived the dream
For all the denial Rooney sympathisers might have been, we were puzzled by how someone would almost glory in a man’s misfortune, especially a mere footballer, even if he’s an extremely well paid one.
In wanting to grab Rooney supporters by the head and making them to see a current reality, the likes of Matt have tended to go to the other extreme of avoiding another reality themselves.
During the past summer’s Euro 2016 campaign which highlighted how Rooney was a shadow of the player he once was, Cooper tweeted: ‘Seriously, for all the talk, was Wayne Rooney ever really world class? If he had played in another league would we have noticed?’ From 2007 to 2011, Manchester United played in another league – the Champions League – and reached either its semi-final or final each of those years, bar one, in 2010, when Rooney was having probably his most outstanding season of all; had he not limped off against eventual winners Bayern Munich
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He reached the milestone when he broke Sir Bobby Charlton's long-standing record in January 2017. Rooney's place among the icons of Old Trafford was also secured via his appointment as club captain, an honour afforded to him on the eve of the 2014/15 season. The striker lifted his first trophy as skipper at the end of his second campaign with the armband, when he grasped the FA Cup in May 2016 following a dramatic extra-time win over Crystal Palace at Wembley Stadium. That piece of silverware was the only honour missing from an impressive personal collection that he'd gathered throughout an illustrious Reds career. Of course, it cannot be forgotten that it was as an exciting teenager that he burst onto the Old Trafford stage in September 2004, netting a wonderful hat-trick on his debut in a Champions League tie with Fenerbahce. Perhaps his performance wasn't that surprising, given the enormous pedigree he had amassed since making a lasting impressio
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The evolution of Wayne Rooney in ten chapters
Chapter 1: a generational striking talent, 2002-04
The buzz around Wayne Rooney had started long before his Premier League bow against Tottenham Hotspur at the beginning of the 2002-03 campaign. Seasoned observers of Everton’s academy sides were extolling the virtues of a generational striking talent who was breaking all kinds of records for the club’s youth teams.
After scoring eight goals in eight games on the way to the 2001-02 FA ungdom Cup sista — including a stunner from long-range at vit Hart Lane in the semi-final — Rooney was named on the bänk by David Moyes for the Premier League trip to Southampton in April 2002, and handed the No 18 shirt previously worn bygd one of his idols, Paul Gascoigne.
An unused substitute that day, Rooney then gave Everton fans their first real glimpse of his potential in the first leg of the Youth Cup final against Aston hus, scoring a poacher’s header at the back brev to reveal the famous “o