The (Short) Story of Wayne Rooney and His Best Tweets

Wayne Rooney was one of the greatest Premier League strikers of all time, but there’s something that he was even better at. Twitter.

When Rooney joined Everton’s youth team at the age of nine, it took him only seven years before he made his professional debut for the club. At the same time, the Evertonian teen began to question the quality of his teammates. 

Reflecting on his first year at Everton, Rooney said: “For me to go in with Duncan [Ferguson], Stubbsy [Alan Stubbs], all of them who I grew up watching, to then go and play with them, training with them every day and play with them, so quickly I remember thinking ‘these are crap’.”

After two seasons, Rooney transferred to Manchester United for £25.6 million in the 2004 summer transfer window. 

Rooney quickly proved himself as a generational talent at United with a hat-trick and assist in his debut win over Fenerbahçe in the UEFA Champions League. 

As Rooney established himself as one of the best players in the world, interest grew around the inner workings of such a talented enigma. 

Luckily, he used to let us know quite often… via Twitter.

Just like the time he asked his teammate Rio Ferdinand at 1:53 AM whether he’d want a lift to training. 

Or his touching tribute following the passing of Whitney Houston in 2021. 

And the time he kept his followers in the loop on his hair transplant.

How about the time that he confirmed his horse’s name to produce this classic?

One of our personal favourites… the time he produced cutting-edge reporting on Manchester United’s signing of Phil Jones.

But we can’t seem to understand what he was doing with this last Tweet…