Jack Pitt-Brooke

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1,018 appearances 19 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 5d ago

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The Athletic FC Podcast · What If... Wayne Rooney joined Manchester City in 2010? · 13 Sep 2026 podcast

Yeah, I'm not sure if l younger listeners and viewers will really quite understand just how exciting Rooney was when he first broke into the Everton first team at the age of sixteen. matched

Um, for people of my generation, that goal it fa he scored a really famous goal at Goodison Park against Arsenal when us so i th this was October two thousand and two. matched

So Arsenal would have been the reigning Premier League champions at this point. matched

And you can easily find it on YouTube. matched

Rooney puts the ball in the top corner over Inc David Seaman, who was then England number one. matched

Um it's a brilliant, brilliant goal. matched

And I think when he scored that goal, and there's a famous bit of commentary, you know, remember the name Wayne Rooney, which has really kind of g gone down in uh to take a big place in the national matched

Consciousness. matched

And he was just thrilling, wasn't he, Andy? matched

Because he was so he was so strong, he was so clever. matched

He had, even though he was just a kid, he played with such a kind of adult physicality and bravery and spirit. matched

And he was just electric and really thrilling to watch. matched

And I don't I still don't even think now, you know, that was a long time ago, that was 24 years ago now. matched

I don't really think English football has produced anyone quite like him. matched

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If we assume that Rooney would have left Four City in the January 2011 window, um, because obviously this this whole saga happened in I think October 2010. matched

So I think United s so let's say they sold them in January and United probably would have had to muddle through to the rest of the season with their remaining players. matched

So they would have had Burbatov and Hernandez up front. matched

They would have like I'm not sure, would they have reached the twenty eleven Champions League final? matched

So that's when they lost to Barcelona and Rooney scored, of course, because Rooney scored both against matched

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