Wayne Rooney’s taking part in profession is barely chilly within the floor and now now we have this official-version documentary profile. It might all be slightly untimely, as Rooney-the-manager seems as if he will probably be simply as fascinating as Rooney-the-player, if not (but) so stellar. However his present travails at Derby County are little doubt too latest, and definitely not triumphal sufficient, to make the grade in a movie designed to reboot the collective reminiscence banks and safe his standing as a footballing nice.
Regardless of his spectacular achievements – a boy marvel, main goalscorer for each Manchester United and the England nationwide workforce – Rooney was by no means precisely a glamorous determine, both on or off the pitch. This picture was bolstered by a sequence of sleazy incidents that ensured he turned grubby tabloid fodder. There's a robust factor of reputational rehabilitation right here, with prolonged sequences displaying Rooney partaking in healthful household actions, meekly accepting criticism from his spouse Coleen, and interviews by which Rooney does his greatest to be frank. His pure defensiveness doesn’t assist, although – alongside together with his intensive deployment of the established footballers’ deflection strategy of speaking about themselves within the second and third individual.
Nonetheless, Rooney isn’t shy of enlarging on his hardcase early teen years, and takes a public earbashing from Coleen over the tabloid escapades. (No point out of “Wagatha Christie”, although; little doubt that’s being saved for an additional documentary.) In reality, Rooney’s want to reveal his soul could but get him into bother, after he quite rashly admits to intentionally getting down to damage an opponent in a key recreation towards Chelsea – a comment by which the FA is taking an curiosity. The soccer, in fact, will get slightly misplaced amongst all this: his worldwide profession was considerably soured by the broader difficulties the England workforce skilled, and at membership degree, as he himself factors out, his achievements at Manchester United had been overshadowed by the treble-winners of 1999. Maybe that can stay Rooney’s lot, even whether it is clear his story is much from over.
Rooney is launched on 11 February on Prime Video
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