Wayne Rooney
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1,421 appearances
13 recordings
8 series
first heard Aug 2017
last heard 7 Jul
Wayne Rooney’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So he was really clever the way he'd done it and he got a response from me, he got a response from the other players and he just knew the right thing to do.
And what about when he left you out?
How did he do that?
He obviously didn't enjoy it because I was one of the players who never took it well.
I wanted to play every week.
And we'd have disagreements over it.
I think that's good in football.
Players and managers, they should have debates.
But at the end of the day, he was the manager.
He made decisions and I had to respect that.
It was...
At times it was really simple.
Some of the team talks was to go and win the game.
You 11 players are better than that 11.
Go and win the game.
Work it out for yourselves on the pitch.
So we give you that responsibility.
If we've got a player sent off, the players work out how we change the formation themselves on the pitch.
And then if there was a problem, the manager would change it.
And then in the big games, that's when he'd get his tactics right and he'd do certain things.
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