Gary Lineker

Although you could say Wayne Rooney's got a little bit of Gazza in him, hasn't he?

Bit of a maverick.

But he'd have to be up there, wouldn't he?

Absolutely smashed into pieces.

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Basically, Rooney owes his entire career to you.

Basically, yeah.

If you want to look for that space, you want to score.

Yeah, my point entirely.

Let's start with the first moment, which has to be one thing.

You've already mentioned it right at the top.

That remarkable goal when he announced himself.

he obviously knew he was pretty good.

There's a fantastic quote from Wayne, I've got it here.

And he was talking about his early training sessions with these Everton teammates, you know, when he went up from being a boys teams or reserves team, training with the first team lads, grown men.

And he said, I remember thinking, these are crap.

I thought the step up would be harder.

He actually said crap, didn't he?

Crap, that was the word.

So basically, I suppose what he's sort of saying is that when he stepped up into men's football, he actually thought they'd be way better than they actually are.