Wayne Rooney's drink driving costs him a driving ban!

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Wayne Rooney released on bail after being charged with drink-driving

Everton striker Wayne Rooney has been charged with drink-driving, British police said Friday.

Rooney, England’s all-time record goalscorer and former captain, was stopped by police near his home in Cheshire, northwest England, in the early hours of Friday.

“The man was arrested shortly after 2.00am today, Friday 1 September, after officers stopped a black VW Beetle,” said a police statement.

Police said 31-year-old Rooney “has since been charged with driving whilst over the prescribed limit.”

He was pulled over on Altrincham Road, Wilmslow, just a few miles from his home in Prestbury.

Rooney had been released on bail and is due to appear at Stockport Magistrates’ Court on September 18 - the day after Everton play his former club Manchester United at Old Trafford.

He was seen posing in a selfie with cricketer Jack McIver in a bar in the upmarket town of Alderley Edge, near his home, on Thursday, August 31.

McIver shared the photo of the pair in the Bubble Room on Instagram at around 10:00pm that day with the comment: “International Break #legend”.

Rooney announced his retirement from international football last week, having scored 53 goals in 119 appearances.

He made his decision despite England manager Gareth Southgate offering to recall him for the World Cup qualifier against Malta on Friday.

Rooney re-joined boyhood club Everton in the pre-season after a successful 13-year spell at Premier League rivals Manchester United that saw him win five English titles, one FA Cup, three League Cups, the Europa League and the 2008 Champions League.

But he started to become more of a bit-part player following the arrival at Old Trafford of Portuguese manager and former Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho.

Rooney, however, has seemed rejuvenated by a move back to Liverpool-based Everton and scored in his first two Premier League games of the 2017/18 campaign, a 1-0 home win over Stoke City at Goodison Park and in a 1-1 draw away to Manchester City.

Friday saw Rooney arrive at his home shortly before 2:25pm local time as he was quickly driven through the open gates of his property and past a crowd of waiting reporters.

https://thefield.scroll.in/849274/w...england-on-suspicion-of-drunk-driving-reports

 

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">BREAKING: Wayne Rooney banned from driving for two years & ordered 100 hours of unpaid work after pleading guilty to drink driving <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SSN?src=hash">#SSN</a> <a href="https://t.co/sQtvU9JAPF">pic.twitter.com/sQtvU9JAPF</a></p>— Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/SkySportsNews/status/909718397449056256">September 18, 2017</a></blockquote>
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[finalfantasy7]

What's his unpaid job - what's the general jobs they do.

Better not visit youth centres and just talk to kids

 

[KingKhanWC]

What's his unpaid job - what's the general jobs they do.

Better not visit youth centres and just talk to kids

Community service can consist of painting fences to working in a charity shop. Rooney wont be on the streets doing manual labour, he will probably find a charity to work with and 100 hours isn't much , a few weeks work.

It doesnt make much of difference if your banned from driving if you are as rich as Rooney, he will get a driver.

 

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Wayne Rooney: 'I would actually lock myself away and just drink'

Wayne Rooney, England's all-time record goalscorer, says he turned to drink to cope with the pressures of fame.

In revealing interviews with the Daily Mail and the Times, the 36-year-old opened up about the impact of going from growing up on a Liverpool council estate to becoming a superstar of English football.

"To go from that to having to deal with becoming a Premier League player at 16 and an international player was something I wasn't prepared for," said the ex-Manchester United striker.

Rooney made his Premier League debut at 16 for Everton, played and scored for England at 17 and hit a Champions League hat-trick on his debut for Manchester United at 18 after a £27m move.

"I had never even thought about the other side of being a football player. I wasn't prepared for that part of life," he said, speaking before the launch of an Amazon Prime documentary about his life.

"It took a long time for me to get used to that and figure out how to deal with it. It was like being thrown in somewhere where you are just not comfortable. That was tough for me."

Rooney, who went on to become United and England's all-time record goalscorer and won the Premier League five times, says he "made a lot of mistakes" as a young player and that drinking was his main way of coping.

"In my early years at Manchester United, probably until we had my first son, Kai, I locked myself away really. I never went out," Rooney told the two newspapers.

"There were times you'd get a couple of days off from football and I would actually lock myself away and just drink, to try to take all that away from my mind.

"People might know that I liked a drink at times or went out but there was a lot more to it than just that. It was what was going on in my head.

"It was just a build-up of everything... pressure of playing for your country, playing for Manchester United, the pressure of some of the stuff which came out in the newspapers about my personal life, just trying to deal with all that pressure which builds up.

"I was trying to figure out how to deal with it by myself. Growing up on a council estate, you would never actually go and speak to anyone. You would always find a way to deal with it yourself. It was trying to cope with it yourself rather than asking for help."

Rooney, who returned for a second spell at Everton and also played for DC United and Derby County before taking over as manager of the Championship club, says he did not feel comfortable speaking to anybody at Old Trafford about his issues and that he now has it "under control".

"Now, people would be more empowered to speak about that kind of thing," said Rooney. "Back then, in my head and with other players, there was no way I could just go into the dressing room and start saying this is how I am feeling because you just wouldn't do it.

"Then you would end up suffering internally rather than letting your thoughts out."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/60275555

 

[James]

It sounds like Mr Rooney was very much in the grip of alcoholism during his darkest periods, which is an extremely serious disease. Hopefully he got the help he needs and is feeling better now, moving towards teetotalism or there already.