Wayne Rooney has said in his new book that if he can't sleep he needs to make more noise. In his autobiography serialised in the Sunday Mail he says: "I've ruined so many hairdryers by letting them burn out. Coleen hates it. She won't let me turn on a vacuum cleaner or a fan, not when we're together."
"People look at you, and at how I happen to look especially when I'm out there on the pitch, and they imagine they know your character. But they don't," he says. "In real life I think I'm a quiet, sensitive, retiring shy person. That's my image of myself."
And on his love of paying for a good rub down he says about Coleen: "I felt so ashamed that I'd let her down so much. I've always loved her and always will, so why had I done such a shameful thing?
"It's my biggest single regret in life. I can never sufficiently make it up to Coleen - but I have tried and I am trying."
Yet, it appears, there is no cure for scouseness even if he admits some players think far too much of themselves:
"I don't understand those players, and there are quite a few, who turn up in the latest fashions every day. The United players have a go at me and call me a scruff."
"I get some stick in the United dressing room because I usually turn up in slippers.
"I have two pairs - just soft ordinary carpet slippers - one from Marks & Spencer and the other just a cheap pair with an
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