It hasn’t been the happiest start to the new year for Wayne Rooney, losing his job as the Plymouth Argyle manager over the course of the festive season.
It was all very different in January 2003’s issue of FourFourTwo when they were going to town on football’s newest superstar, 17-year-old Wayne Rooney who had recently announced himself by crashing in a 30-yard winner for Everton against Arsenal.
Detailing the way in which Everton were trying to protect this new phenomenon, including refusing any press access to him and moving his family closer to the training ground so that Wayne could cycle to work, even though it’s only 22 years old, the article already sees to be coming to us from another world. After all, would a similar Rooney prodigy be signing up to a £900 a week contract today as described here? I think not.
