FASHION?

Last updated : 16 July 2006 By Ed

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 England flag on the front bought from the market."

(Well at least you bought them Wayne)