London, Nov. 26 : Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney has apologized to coach Alex Ferguson for diving to try to win a penalty during the match against Villarreal.

The Manchester United striker fell when Villarreal’s Fabricio Fuentes went to challenge him.

London, Nov. 25: He may be one of England’s best football players today, but Wayne Rooney recalls a time when police in his hometown of Croxethe, Liverpool, took away his football because he was playing on the street.

“When I was about 16, I got my ball taken off me by the police for playing in the street – which is pathetic really,” The Sun quotes Rooney, as saying.

Asked where he used to play as a youngster, he said: “I was fortunate because at the back of my mum’s house there was a five-a-side tarmac pitch.

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London, Nov. 5: Manchester United star Wayne Rooney’s birthday party for his two brothers ended in a brawl yesterday in which a fan of his was left with cuts and bruises.

Twenty-seven-year-old Michael Mitchell told the Sun that he had spotted Rooney and his wife Coleen, 22, at the Liner Hotel in Liverpool, where a birthday party was on for Rooney’s two brothers -- John, 18, and Graeme, 21.

Michael asked Rooney, 23, if he could take a photograph of him standing next to pal Dermot Graham — and the star obliged.

But as digger driver Michael, of Belfast, Northern Ireland, was taking the snap, he was punched and a fight broke out.

Mobile phone footage showed Rooney trying to help.

London, Nov 1 : Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney has been cautioned for spitting at a photographer and forced to pen a grovelling apology to his victim.

The Manchester United ace finally said sorry last night when he attended a police station in central London.

Rooney, 22, spat on Lee Simmons’s back as he left a restaurant in the capital with wife Coleen, also 22.

London, Oct 27 : Wayne Rooney, England’s striker, wants to stay at Manchester United for the rest of his career.

Rooney, who turned 23 last week, said that he was a northern lad and would be happy to stay there for the rest of his career, the News of the World quoted him, as saying.

“As for moving abroad can you ever seem me playing for a foreign team? I love England and I love being close to my family,” said the England striker.

“I’ve said many times before how much I enjoy playing here and nothing will change that,” Rooney added.