This is the story of the rise and fall and rise again of Wayne Rooney, a boy from the mean streets of broken Britain who lifted himself out of poverty by his footballing genius to play for Manchester United and England. On the pitch a hero. Off it, the centrepiece, with his wife Coleen, of perhaps the most vacuous media soap opera of modern times.

This biography of Wayne Rooney looks at his career as well as his upbringing and early involvement in football.