London, Nov. 25: He may be one of England’s best football players today, but Wayne Rooney recalls a time when police in his hometown of Croxethe, Liverpool, took away his football because he was playing on the street.
“When I was about 16, I got my ball taken off me by the police for playing in the street – which is pathetic really,” The Sun quotes Rooney, as saying.
Asked where he used to play as a youngster, he said: “I was fortunate because at the back of my mum’s house there was a five-a-side tarmac pitch.