Family, Memories And Childhood - Getting To Know Wayne Rooney

The Football Interview is simply a caller bid successful which nan biggest names successful athletics and intermezo subordinate big Kelly Somers for bold and in-depth conversations astir nan nation's favourite sport. We'll research mindset and motivation, and talk astir defining moments, profession highs and individual reflections. The Football Interview brings you nan personification down nan player.

Interviews will driblet connected Saturdays crossed BBC iPlayer, BBC Sounds and nan BBC Sport website. They will besides tally connected BBC One connected a Saturday aft Match of nan Day.

Wayne Rooney will ever beryllium regarded arsenic 1 of England's champion strikers.

Rooney scored 53 goals successful 120 appearances for his state and won nan Premier League 5 times pinch Manchester United, arsenic good arsenic lifting nan Champions League, Europa League, FA Cup and League Cup during a sparkling career.

He will beryllium 1 of nan pundits connected nan BBC's Match of nan Day passim nan season, giving his views connected each nan latest Premier League action.

Before that, he sat down pinch Kelly Somers successful nan first of a play BBC characteristic called The Football Interview to talk his career, his life distant from shot and his family.

WR: Yes, I ever retrieve erstwhile I was astir 14 - I was doing things you shouldn't beryllium doing. Colin Harvey was nan under-19s head astatine nan time. He saw maine crossing nan roadworthy pinch a container of cider, which of people was wrong. He pulled maine successful and said: 'If you support doing this, you are going to propulsion everything - your talent, your expertise - away. You request to attraction yourself because you person nan expertise to spell connected and play for not conscionable Everton - but England.'

From past was erstwhile I thought, 'I request to extremity doing it'. I stopped going retired pinch my mates rather a batch and purely focused connected football. I deliberation that speech pinch Colin Harvey was decidedly nan turning point.

WR: I couldn't opportunity one. My mum and dada equally. I spot it now erstwhile I'm taking my kids to football. My mum didn't thrust and my dada worked, truthful I utilized to person to return 3 buses pinch my mum astatine times.

Both my mum and dada had immense roles to play and, arsenic a kid, you astir apt don't admit it. You return it for granted - nan stress, nan activity they put in. I person 2 brothers and they had to do it for them arsenic well. It's only erstwhile you person kids you spot it and understand nan sacrifices they had to make.

We person 4 boys and they are each successful different places, truthful maine and Coleen are often successful different places. The kids ever want maine to beryllium there, truthful I person to operation up what I spell and watch. It's non-stop really, each time of nan week.

WR: If I had to take one, I'd opportunity nan Arsenal FA Cup last successful 2005. The performance, really we played against a very bully Arsenal team... and past we mislaid connected penalties. I would opportunity that is nan 1 I would change, because it was 1 we astir apt deserved to win.

Also nan Croatia game, which I didn't play in, for England. We needed to tie aliases triumph nan crippled to suffice for Euro 2008. That was horrible - being location down nan players connected nan bench, sitting location and watching them. Then seeing what happened pinch Steve McClaren connected nan touchline. Rain was pouring down - losing nan crippled and not going to Euro 2008... that was 1 clip I felt embarrassed astir being a player.

WR: With management, it was thing I ever wanted to spell into. I saw it arsenic a challenge. I ever want successful life to beryllium challenged and return things caput on, but besides understood that there's a chance it mightiness spell incorrect arsenic well. But I don't mind taking that consequence and challenge.

Some erstwhile players mightiness hold for nan cleanable opportunity. The Derby County one... I was playing location and Phillip Cocu sewage sacked. We went into administration. It was a really reliable commencement to guidance but I felt we did a really bully job.

At DC United, erstwhile we went there, I felt we did a bully occupation moreover though it doesn't get portrayed that way. They had vanished bottommost nan 3 seasons earlier we went location and we sewage them to wrong a constituent of nan play-offs.

The Birmingham one, everything was incorrect - nan timing of it, nan fans didn't really springiness maine an opportunity, we mislaid games. It felt correct astatine nan clip but looking backmost astatine it, it wasn't.

And astatine Plymouth, we were doing OK for what we had and past nan determination was made. After that I thought, 'I don't cognize why I americium putting myself successful these positions'. I looked into doing punditry, did bits and enjoyed it and felt nan clip was right. So present I am!

WR: I deliberation I'm rather adjacent and honorable really - that is nan only measurement to be. I opportunity this arsenic a player, a manager, and now arsenic a pundit - it's nan aforesaid values. The fans aren't stupid. If you expect maine to beryllium location and effort and sugar-coat things which fans tin see, I don't deliberation I should beryllium doing it.

There are immoderate pundits retired location who effort and spell complete nan apical arsenic well. All I tin do is effort and beryllium adjacent pinch what I'm seeing and springiness my honorable opinion. I americium judge immoderate players aliases managers mightiness get irritated pinch that but you person to beryllium honest. Wayne Rooney nan subordinate astir apt wouldn't for illustration Wayne Rooney nan pundit, and I get that.

We utilized to deliberation 'why would pundits opportunity that?' but erstwhile you decorativeness playing you realise why pundits opportunity things. I've been criticised by galore pundits arsenic a subordinate and I was ne'er 1 to telephone them up and kick - it really drove maine a spot much to think, 'next clip you are speaking, you are saying bully things'.

I want to spot Man Utd do well, of people I do, but I'm very bully mates pinch Jonny Evans and I criticised him past season. If you're speaking truthfully connected what you consciousness past it makes it very difficult for a subordinate to travel to you and mobility why you're saying things.

WR: I ever effort to person immoderate clip conscionable to beryllium location and if watching a TV bid I conscionable chill pinch a solid of vino and conscionable move disconnected from everything.

It's important conscionable to move your mind disconnected from everything really. I utilized to do this arsenic a subordinate and time off thing football-wise astatine nan gate. I would travel successful and wouldn't moreover talk astir football.

WR: Yes, he's doing really well. I was astatine my cousin's wedding astatine nan weekend. They were doing nan speeches and I had my telephone and was watching Kai playing successful Croatia. I jumped up - he scored successful nan past infinitesimal - but he was offside!

He loves it. He wants to beryllium a shot player, that's nan astir important thing. He wants to do it and he is moving difficult to effort to do it.

WR: He plays arsenic a striker, plays disconnected nan right. He's strong, not nan tallest, but he will beryllium taller than me.

He understands nan crippled fantastically and he thinks astir it. He comes home, cooks for himself, he speaks fluent Spanish, truthful he is doing everything he tin to effort to unrecorded his dream.

Over nan past fewer months it has been nan first clip I've been capable to spell connected a accordant basis.

WR: It was The Shawshank Redemption but I deliberation complete nan past fewer years I'm going to person to opportunity The Wolf of Wall Street.

I besides emotion Sister Act - I emotion musicals!

WR: It's nary concealed that I didn't moreover return GCSEs but I deliberation group presume because of that that I'm not educated, which is really wrong.

I made a conscious effort erstwhile I was astatine Everton and Manchester United to amended myself successful a batch of different things, specified arsenic achromatic history and religion. The logic I did that was because I wanted to clasp conversations pinch my team-mates who are from different backgrounds.

That was thing I did to thief maine pinch my team-mates and thief understand really they person been brought up. That's astir apt thing group don't understand astir me.