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Chapter 1: What were Wayne Rooney's early moments at Everton?
Hello and welcome to The Rest Is Football with Micah Richards, Alan Shearer and me, Gary Lineker, on this episode of the Premier League Greats, the moments that made them. We're focusing on absolutely one of the greats, someone that you may have played against, you've definitely played against. Micah, we know you played against him and got fairly close to him on occasions.
It is the legendary Wayne Rooney. Oh! But we've also all worked with. Not on the field, but off the field.
Come on, let's stop all the nonsense. Was he better than you or not? At what? At scoring goals.
No. No? No, he was better than me at everything else, though. Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah. Natural talent was, like, ridiculous. When we saw him come in and score that goal at Everton Arsenal, wasn't it? That was the start of something incredibly special.
Funnily enough, that will be one of the moments. We'll come to that shortly. But I think you made the point, though, very well, that it was more than just a goal scorer, wasn't it? That's the thing about Wayne. He could do all of it, couldn't he? He was creative. He could pass. He could tackle. He was hard, though. He was strong.
He was brilliant at everything, actually. I know I joked about... being a better goal scorer, but his goal scoring, all types of goals, all of them, tap-ins, 30-yarders, headers, you said strong as they come
the best for me i think he could be the best player england have ever produced i think he's definitely got to be in that argument let's have that argument yeah now okay but it's different eras yeah of course and it's really difficult talking about different eras because things change a lot we were just having a little chat weren't we before about you know the the warm-up now what is it the pre-activation yes and that's the warm-up before the woman and it's an
where you get your stretches, your groin.
But even the way, and that would have changed even since Wayne played, probably. He would probably have been through some of that change. But you've got these beautiful gyms, ice baths, massive areas. We're in a loft here. It's fairly big, actually. It's about... probably three times as big as a dressing room in our day. You'd squeeze in there and you go play on boggy pitches and stuff.
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Chapter 2: How did Wayne Rooney's playing style impact his career?
Look at the run here to open up the gap for Joe Cole. I didn't get the assist on this one. All you did was make a run to open up space for Joe Cole. Yes, basically. That'd be what I was talking about.
for that for three hours on the train. Hang on a minute.
How important the space is. You know, when we talk about space, it's a pocket of space overlapping, creating this Wembley. Was it Wembley? No, this was away. Ah. Never debut away. Okay. Hmm. We've got a draw there. I was up against Robham.
Absolutely smashed into pieces. On this week's episode of Premier League Great Stamets and Made Them, we've got my team.
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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.
Wayne Rooney. Oh, he went for it. Oh, his first goal in the Premiership. What a special goal.
But the touch and, I mean, everything. 16-year-old to do that against Arsenal and all those great players that Arsenal had. I mean, the touch and then the move and then the finish is just... Look at that. Against Seaman as well. Yeah. It's just like... Wow. Just brilliant. Look at the size of him. I know, yeah. You know? He was a man already then, wasn't he? You can tell.
Technically and physically, he was just... Because there's always that thing, you know, big hitters. I mentioned before there was James Milner. Aaron Lennon at that time, Jermaine Pennant a little bit before, Big Meeks, you know, and then there was Rooney. But he was the one who everyone talked about coming through the youth. He was going to be the best thing and he lived up to it.
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Chapter 3: What makes Wayne Rooney one of England's greatest players?
I thought the step up would be harder.
LAUGHTER Crap!
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.
He was lacking confidence at 16 then as well.
It showed him that goal a little bit, that confidence. It's just terrific. Yeah. There was the commentary as well, wasn't there, Andy? You remember the name? Yeah. Who was the commentator? It was Clive Tilsley.
Was it Clive Tilsley?
I'm pretty sure it was Clive Tilsley. I think we remembered it.
I think that goal at 16 sort of summed him up at 30 as well. Even just the arrogance, obviously the ability, the strength and the ability to just do what he wanted to do. And I think that at 16 was amazing. And he carried that on all his career.
You played against him, Alan, and one of the moments is that extraordinary goal where he sort of loses his rag with the referee. And you said you were right behind this, weren't you?
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