Wayne Rooney

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The Overlap · All You Need To Know About The Play-Offs With Rooney, Coady & Mullin | Fan Debate EFL Special Part 1 · 8 May 2026 podcast

So I had to make a decision, obviously, whether I wanted to carry on playing and retire.

I could have played on for a couple of years, really, to be honest, because I haven't really had any bad injuries throughout my career.

I was playing in midfield, which is a little bit easier than playing as a centre-forward.

So I could have carried on but then I wanted to start that journey of going into coaching and so for me it was a bit strange obviously going into the first team meeting and the players are like, what do we call you?

But then the advantage I had with that was I knew which players in the dressing room were not good for the dressing room so I could quite quickly

I took over the beginning of January and so I was quite quickly trying to get them players out and bring players in but then so that season we stayed up last game of the season and then it was told to me that we were going into administration we couldn't sign players so for that as my first job was very difficult and the players were brilliant I have to say the players were you know incredible really how the

They got on with, I think, 20 debuts from the academy, players who'd never played first-team football.

We had to, really.

But then it mixed out with a couple of players we brought in.

We brought Jack Yelker in, and Tom Roddens made him captain.

He was in there, but made him captain.

Ravel Morrison done really well with me coming in so I brought a few players in who had a bit of experience who could help these younger players and so they helped me massively if I'm being honest and then we ended up with the 21 point deduction which without that we would have stayed up which for that group of players would have been a massive achievement so it was tough for the staff and for everyone but

I have to say it was probably the most enjoyable job I've done.

Going out to DC was different.

Birmingham was just, from day one, it was strange, if I'm being honest.

And Plymouth, we were actually doing okay.

Plymouth, I think we were due to play Oxford in December.

And the game got called off, but if we played that and won, we would have, like four from bottom,

and then we knew what we wanted to do in January and it got cancelled and then we had Bristol on the Wednesday and I got sacked on the Tuesday which the difficulty we had was the away games at home we were okay the away games you know we'd have run the bus for seven to nine hours for away games the day before a game and we were having to stop off at the service stations for 45 minutes because the driver needed to have a rest he couldn't

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