Later in the day, the Man United captain and England footballer took to his Twitter account thanking fans for their birthday messages, ''Thank you to everyone for all my birthday messages.''
Below are 30 things you never knew about Wayne Rooney, as the Man United captain turns 30:
1. Rooney was once suspended from school for two days for kicking a hole in the wall of a science lab. He was angry because his football had been confiscated.
2. In the season he played for Everton Under-11s, he scored 114 goals in 30 games.
3. At Euro 2004 , he would watch <Oliver!> and sing all the songs whenever he got a massage.
4. When he was first called up to the England Under-15s, the coach Steve Rutter ignored his pleas that he was a striker and stuck him on the right wing, because he ‘wasn’t good enough to play up front.’
5. He’s had a lazy right eye since he was a kid, and has glasses he’s meant to wear for reading and driving – but he hardly ever does.
6. His mum still works as a dinner lady at a local school - and gets grief off the kids about her son’s performances.
7. Once, after Rooney had questioned his training methods in front of other players, Everton’s assistant manager Alan Irvine told him, “Speak to me like that again and you’ll be back in the youth team.” Rooney’s response was, “No I won’t.”
8. On the one occasion he was a mascot at Goodison Park, aged 10, he chipped Neville Southall from outside the area. He’d been practicing it all week, and Southall called him a flash b*****d.
9. He explains his vision on the football pitch by saying he can paint a picture in his head. He’ll look up and see where everyone is, but then won’t need to look again before he passes, because he can instinctively figure out where everyone will now be.
10. The first meal he ever cooked in his life was in 2003: steak and chips for him and Coleen on a George Foreman grill. He had to ring her for help.
11. He slept in his parents’ bed until he was five, because he had seen a yellow and green ghost on his window ledge.
12. At school, the only subject he was any good at was Religious Education. One school report said, “Wayne’s recall of stories about the life of Jesus is quite detailed.” In his Year 8 exams, he got 0 per cent in both Spanish and Geography.
13. He got his first agent when he was 14, Peter McIntosh, who got him an Umbro scholarship agreement. Rooney got all his kit and £2,000 a year.
14. When Duncan Ferguson went to jail in 1994, Wayne (aged nine) wrote to him twice to tell him how unfair he thought it was. Ferguson wrote back to thank him.
15. He used to ride a mini-motorbike (Yamaha PW80 with three gears and no clutch) round his estate. He didn’t have a licence for it, so he just waited until there were no police around.
16. When he was 13, he got into a fight with a boy in the sixth form – Rooney won, giving him a black eye.
17. At Everton, he once chucked a bucket of cold water over David Moyes while he was in the toilet. Moyes never found out it was him.
18. His chauffeur used to be Shaka Hislop’s brother, Kona, who used to play for Carlisle.
19. He always has the same pre-match meal: spaghetti bolognese with a piece of chicken fillet.
20. When he joined Everton full-time, his wage was £75 a week. When he signed his first professional contract, aged 17, it went up to £8,000 a week.
21. He normally puts on half a stone during the close season.
22. When he was first called up to the England squad in February 2003, he fell asleep in his hotel room before the first team meeting. They had to get a spare key from reception to get into his room and wake him up.
23. If he could be any animal, he would be a shark.
24. After scoring his first England goal against Macedonia in September 2003, he got the match ball signed by the whole team. Steven Gerrard’s message was, “Well done, Ugly Arse.”
25. He plays a lot of FIFA, but never as Barcelona or Real Madrid “because that’s cheating”. Rio Ferdinand also claims that he's seen Rooney's FIFA rage get so bad, controllers have been smashed…
26. After he scored THAT goal against Arsenal as a 16 year-old, he went home and played another game - this time with his mates, by the garages outside Coleen’s house.
27. He’s a big fan of karaoke - he has a machine set up at his house. ‘Mustang Sally’ is apparently a big favourite. In fairness, he can actually sing a bit:
28. His son Kai is only five, but is now so obsessed with football he makes his dad watch all sorts of games with him. “Even West Ham away in the Europa League,” says Rooney.
29. For his first date with Coleen, he took her to see Austin Powers at the local cinema. His proposal was equally “straightforward” - he asked Coleen to marry him on a petrol station forecourt. They then went back to his mum’s for corned beef hash.
30. He used to write poetry. No, seriously …
- Mirror UK
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