This is no hagiography. Irreverent, hilarious & surprising, Rooney s Gold is a tarts-&-all biography of England s most famous sportsman & the iniquities of some of those who have sought their pound of flesh. This is the story of a boy from the mean streets of broken Britain few streets meaner than Croxteth in Liverpool lifted out of poverty by his footballing genius to play for Manchester United & Engl&. Wayne Rooney can be bad-tempered & he can use bad language, but there s no doubting his passion for the beautiful game
- & a basic, street-level sense of fair play. Rough, working class, surrounded by an unlikely crew including a controversial agent, a crooked lawyer, tarts & gangsters
- Rooney s Gold looks at the characters who have been attracted to the fabulous money Rooney gets for kicking a pig s bladder around a field. Some of them have tainted his gold. However, in the wake of a disastrous World Cup 2010, further tabloid revelations of his paying prostitutes for sex, & the comically unedifying spectacle of his grotesque contract negotiations with Manchester United in October 2010, that Rooney is perfectly capable of tarnishing his own gold.