Wayne Rooney: boots of gold

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This book is not your usual whitewash. Irreverent, hilarious and surprising, Wayne Rooney: Boots of Gold is a tarts-and-all biography of England's most famous sportsman and an exposé of the iniquities of some of those who have sought their pound of flesh from his celebrity. Short-tempered and sweary he may be, but there's no doubting Rooney's passion for the beautiful game. But who is the real Wayne Rooney? On the one hand there was the disastrous World Cup in 2010, sex scandals and the unedifying spectacle of his grotesque contract negotiations with Manchester United; on the other, unpreceden.;INTRODUCTION -- 1. THE TRUTH ABOUT THE CROCKY BOY WONDER -- 2. A GENIUS WITH A GOB ON HIM IS BORN -- 3. EVERTON'S PUPPY OF WAR -- 4. BOY MEETS GIRL -- 5. 'NO TIP OR NOTHING. THE CHEEK OF THEM, THESE MILLIONAIRES' -- 6. THE HAIRDRYER, THE DODGY AGENT, THE GANGSTER, HIS FRIEND WHO KEPT HIS .45 MAGNUM UNDERNEATH HIS MOTHER'S FLOWERPOT, AND THE LEFT LEG IN THE LAY-BY -- 7. 'HE COULDN'T WRITE PROPERLY AND DIDN'T SEEM ALL THAT BRIGHT'-- CALL GIRL ON ROONEY -- 8. 'YOU SCHEMING LITTLE PRICK' -- 9. 'YOU'VE RUINED MY DAUGHTER'S NIGHT' -- 10. 'HE WAS A KNOBHEAD' -- 11. THE MYTH OF THE AULD SLAPPER -- 12. THE HEAVY MOB CAME TOO -- 13. 'THERE'S NO FUCKING PROBLEM WITH MY FUCKING TEMPER' -- 14. ENGLAND'S GLORY? -- 15. 'WITH THIS BLING I THEE WED' -- 16. WORLD CUP AT HIS FEET -- 17. THE WRONGED WOMAN.