Wayne Rooney is Englandâ??s greatest footballing hope since Gazza. Wazza is brave, heâ??s brilliant, he is the catalyst for both club and country. Itâ??s just a pity that the man with an amazing football ability has the body of an ox and the heart of a lionâ?¦ but the mind of a duck. The story of Roo isnâ??t just about a Liverpool street footballer from the rough end of Croxteth making it to the big-time. Itâ??s about Britainâ??s demented cult of celebrity, love with sweetheart Colleen,sex â?? rough sex with prostitutes, excruciatingly bad sex, sex with, allegedly, â??the Auld Slapperâ?? â?? and about gangsters. The dark side of football is a story seldom told, of a potential £100 million â??cash cowâ?? being milked at both ends by the big clubs, of sweeteners offered by way of a quarter of a million quid in cash, of people who know people who make money by killing people. John Sweeney is Britainâ??s number one investigative journalist. In a football biography unlike any other, he shines a light on the shadowy characters surrounding the England and Manchester United star, including: * The London gangster, just out of prison for importing vast amounts of drugs, who took an unhealthy interest in Rooâ??s career * The heavies who threatened his agent * The dodgy lawyer, so bent that he curved the space-time continuum * The blackmail trial that went nowhere because the police couldnâ??t trust the word of Rooneyâ??s agentâ?¦ ROO UNZIPPED also reveals the truth behind Rooâ??s red mists. How school friends feared his anger when he was seven: the same animal rage that has got him sent off time and again, and was his great vulnerability at the World Cup. Itâ??s a book about a football genius under attack from the world, the whores, the gangsters, and, most dangerous of all, his own demons within.
