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‘Saw me crossing the road with a bag of cider' – Wayne Rooney reveals turning point that transformed Man Utd icon's life
WAYNE ROONEY has revealed the pivotal intervention of an Everton legend helped set him on the right path. English football icon Rooney, who was once the national team's record goalscorer and holds that record for Manchester United, was known in his younger days as a bit of a bad boy. 4 4 4 But during his youth, Rooney has opened up on how he could have gone down a very different path. Speaking to BBC Sport, Rooney recalled playing for his first club, under-9s team Copplehouse Colts, before he had a major turning point at the age of 14, thanks to Everton icon Colin Harvey - who was then the club's youth team coach. Rooney explained: "I always remember when I was about 14 - I was doing things you shouldn't be doing. "Colin Harvey was the under-19s manager at the time. He saw me crossing the road with a bag of cider, which of course was wrong. "He pulled me in and said: 'If you keep doing this, you are going to throw everything - your talent, your ability - away. "'You need to focus yourself because you have the ability to go on and play for not just Everton - but England.' "From then was when I thought, 'I need to stop doing it'. "I stopped going out with my mates quite a lot and purely focused on football. BEST ONLINE CASINOS - TOP SITES IN THE UK "I think that conversation with Colin Harvey was definitely the turning point." Harvey, 80, was affectionately dubbed the "white Pele" and was part of the Toffees' "Holy Trinity" midfield alongside Alan Ball and Howard Kendall, which helped them win the First Division in 1969/70. Wayne Rooney reveals gang of masked thugs turned up at his home after row with Sir Alex Ferguson over Man Utd exit In fact, Harvey himself secured the title for the club that season with a superb solo goal against West Brom. Decades later, Rooney would inherit the "white Pele" moniker as he became one of the most recognisable faces in world football. Rooney credits his mum and dad equally in having the biggest impact on his career. But Rooney has also taken steps of his own to try and cast off the image some people have of him. Wayne Rooney's record-breaking career WAYNE Rooney took the football world by storm when he made his debut for 2002 with Everton. He quickly became the club's youngest-ever goalscorer aged 16 years and 342 days and was named the BBC's Young Sports Personality of the Year. The striker joined Manchester United in 2004 and spent 13 years at Old Trafford. He went on to make 559 appearances for the Red Devils and scored 253 goals. To this day he is still the club's all-time leading goalscorer. Following his spell with United, Rooney returned to Everton for a season. He also spent one-season stints with D.C. United and Derby County at the end of his career. As well as his impressive club career, Rooney is also England's second-highest goalscorer with 53 goals in 120 appearances, behind only Harry Kane. After hanging up his boots, the England icon turned to a career in management. He took charge of Derby County in 2020 and managed to just about save the club from relegation from the Championship at the end of his first season. However, with Derby handed a 21-point deduction the following campaign, he was unable to keep them up again and subsequently left. Then came a 15-month spell in charge of MLS side D.C. United. He failed to impress during his time in Washington and parted ways with the club at the end of the 2023 regular season. Rooney was controversially handed the Birmingham job in October 2023, replacing John Eustace with the club doing well and sixth in the Championship table. However, in 15 games he suffered nine defeats and managed just two wins. He was sacked in January 2024 with Birmingham down in 20th. The club were relegated to League One at the end of the campaign. He returned to management in May with Plymouth Argyle but managed just five wins in 25 games. The United legend now finds himself out of work once again. The 39-year-old said: "It's no secret that I didn't even take GCSEs but I think people assume because of that that I'm not educated, which is really wrong. "I made a conscious effort when I was at Everton and Manchester United to educate myself in a lot of different things, such as black history and religion. "The reason I did that was because I wanted to hold conversations with my team-mates who are from different backgrounds. "That was something I did to help me with my team-mates and help understand how they have been brought up. "That's probably something people don't understand about me." Rooney will be appearing as a regular pundit on Match of the Day for the upcoming season. 4
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Top Boy star Giacomo Mancini's wife welcomes couple's first child – admitting ‘we love you so much it hurts'
A TOP Boy star has welcomed a child with his girlfriend. Giacomo Mancini took to social media on Saturday to share the very exciting news with his 7,000 followers. 6 6 6 Posting a carousel of images of the tot, he told fans that they'd welcomed a baby girl and revealed her name to be Mia. Giacomo wrote: 'Mia Bella Mancini. August 9th day you captured our hearts. Mummy and Daddy love you so much it hurts!' The 30-year-old Top Boy star is best known for his first acting role as Gem in the Netflix award winning series. He went on to star in Ripper Street in 2013, Pan in 2015, and Orthodox and Supacell in 2024. Among the images shared by the star was one of his daughter fast asleep. In another, little Mia was being carried out of the hospital by her happy parents, and he also gave a peek at her nursery. The happy dad was also pictured lying on the sofa with his bundle of joy, as well as popping out for a walk with her in the stroller. Giacomo also made sure to buy his new addition a Chelsea football kit with her name on it. Fans flooded the comments with their messages of congratulations, as one person wrote: "Congratulations to you both. She is beautiful." Watch as Ashley Walters admits he was a functioning alcoholic on Top Boy A second penned: "Massive congratulations to you both," and a third echoed: "Congratulations 🩷 obsessed 😍. Can't wait to meet her." Two months ago, the actor posted some sweet photos from their baby shower. Standing with his stunning wife, he wrote: "The Family. 8 Weeks To Go. We Couldn't Be More Excited To Welcome You Into Our World. Thank You To Everyone For Showering Our Baby. Everyday You Continue To Amaze Me And I'm So So So Proud Of You." The series that Giacomo stars in is one of the biggest shows on Netflix. The popular show tells the tale of rival drug-dealing gangs on a notorious London estate, leading some fans to wonder if it's based on a true story. Top Boy is not based on a true story and the characters are fictional. However, the topics the show addresses, the setting of the show and the issues they represent are very real. The Netflix series mainly focuses on the drug wars between Summerhouse, headed by Dushane, and other rival gangs, who fight for control of London 's drug empire. 6 6 6
Daily Mail
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Antiques Roadshow guest KISSES stunned BBC expert after learning life-changing value of old clock banished to the attic
An Antiques Roadshow guest was left speechless after discovering the astonishing value of an 'ugly' old clock - and following its transformation to its original state, she was so thrilled she planted a kiss on the expert's cheek. During a recently repeated episode of the BBC show, filmed in Cardiff, expert Richard Price took a closer look at the guest's 270-year-old clock. At the start of the segment, Richard asked the guest: 'Let me ask you then, why is it so dirty? Do you not look after it?' The guest admitted: 'No, it lives in a box in the attic because it's so ugly.' Richard jokingly replied: 'Really? Who banished it up there?', to which the guest revealed it was his wife who had exiled the timepiece. He explained he inherited the clock from his uncle around five years ago – but it went 'straight into the attic'. Despite its grimy appearance, Richard said: 'Underneath all this filth and mess, we have the most wonderful bronze bull.' In a separate interview, the guest's wife was equally candid about her thoughts on the unwanted heirloom. She admitted: 'My husband inherited the clock from his uncle and when he brought it home, I wasn't impressed at all. 'It was very ugly, very dirty. We didn't realise how dirty until we were told how dirty it was on the Roadshow. I thought that's the colour it was supposed to be.' The guest confessed he hoped it might be worth a couple of thousand pounds because it was pretty old – but Richard soon blew that estimate out of the water. The expert revealed: 'Even in this state, I think your initial offer would be in the region of £20,000.' 'Twenty?' the stunned guest repeated, before Richard confirmed: '£20,000 in the rough like this.' Appearing lost for words, the guest remarked: 'Good heavens... when they double, triple, quadruple the value that you have in mind, it's just unbelievable.' And the surprises didn't stop there – Richard added that if the clock were cleaned and restored, it could fetch between £30,000 and £35,000. The guest said: 'Good heavens above. My wife will never believe it.' His wife recalled: 'I said "Oh, how did you get on?" He was quiet, awfully quiet and his lip was quivering a little bit.' The guest told the Roadshow team: 'And I managed to get out - blurt out - the fact that Richard Price had said "Oh in its present state it's worth £20,000." But when I got to the £30,000 mark, I was getting a bit too excited and a bit emotional.' Determined to give the timepiece a second life, the couple enlisted expert John Jillings – though the process was not without its challenges. John explained: 'It was obviously rather worrying, the fact that it had been in the attic for such a long time and there may have been a little bit of damp there but considering, it's survived very, very well. 'When we removed the springs from the barrels, they were actually signed and dated by the manufacturer for February 1754. So this is exciting, because it's another thing we can use to date the clock quite accurately.' When the restored antique was unveiled, the wife was overwhelmed: 'Oh that's fantastic. Oh you've done a great job.' She then embraced John and gave him a kiss on each cheek as a thank you for transforming the once 'ugly' item into a masterpiece. Revelling in its new look, she gushed: 'Oh it's beautiful, it really is. You would never have believed that it would have looked as good as this. No, it's absolutely marvellous. Now it's not quite so ugly.' Antiques Roadshow is available to watch on BBC One and to stream on iPlayer.
