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Wayne Mark Rooney (born 24 October 1985) is an English footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Manchester United and the England national team.
Rooney made his senior international debut in 2003 becoming the youngest player to represent England (a record later broken by Theo Walcott). He is England's youngest ever goalscorer. He played at UEFA Euro 2004 and scored four goals, briefly becoming the competition's youngest goalscorer. Rooney featured at the 2006 and 2010 World Cups and is widely regarded as his country's best player. He has won the England Player of the Year award twice, in 2008 and 2009. As of September 2011, he has won 73 international caps and scored 28 goals. Along with David Beckham, Rooney is the most red carded player for England, having been sent off twice.
Aged nine, Rooney joined the youth team of Everton, for whom he made his professional debut in 2002. He spent two seasons at the Merseyside club, before moving to Manchester United for £25.6 million in the 2004 summer transfer window. The same year, Rooney acquired the nickname "Wazza". Since then, with Rooney in the team, United have won the Premier League four times, the 2007–08 UEFA Champions League and two League Cups. He also holds two runner-up medals from both the Premier League and the Champions League. In April of the 2011–12 season Rooney scored his 180th goal, making him United's fourth highest goal-scorer of all time.
You're one of those elephant hunters from Ebbsfleet
Primordial superman
I know the trouble you've gotten in
Leave this trouble half cottoned down
If I know better, I don't know better
If I know better, I don't know better
The pigeon's half alive
The other half's in bed
We'll pray for the pigeon or half at least
And pray he's not half dead
If I know better, I don't know better
If I know better, I don't know better
The bartender looks like George Best
Plenty of them do
Look at the way that George went astray
And has since been misconstrued
If I know better, I don't know better
If I know better, I don't know better
Got caught in a sacrilegious embrace
We're entrepreneurs in the field
Till we rolled on the bones and we made them our own
And the road to contention was sealed
If I know better, I don't know better