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Another footballer has fallen.
What are your thoughts on the man?
He went to prostitutes while his wife was pregnant with his son. Does the fact that he is *cough* an overly paid footballer make any difference? Will the media interest have any impact on the outcome of the resolution between him and his wife? Does his use of prostitutes make it any different to his having an affair like the other footballers that have made front page headlines as well as back page?
Would you want your son to hold Rooney as a role model? Are footballers important role models for our children?
>Does the fact that he is *cough* an overly paid footballer make any difference?
The difference is that it suddenly becomes 'newsworthy' - personally I have no desire to hear the story on the news, I don't consider it important to anyone other that he and his wife.
I agree and unfortunately in this country today we have created a culture whereby WE read this kind of rubbish and because of this WE have created a desire to intrude on celebrities personal lives.
If nobody bought it or read it then there would be no papparazzi.
Which is why I haven't read a newspaper for over 10 years
Mario
What was going on in his chaotic private life does go some way to explain his abysmal performance at the World Cup this summer - then it does become more of a public issue, especially for the thousands of fans who spent a fortune going to South Africa to see their 'hero' play.
Rooney isn't a boy anymore, he's a 24-year-old father and husband. His behaviour off the pitch continues to come under intense scrutiny. He supposedly ran up gambling debts of more than £700,000 and has been caught smoking and urinating in public after a drunken night out in Manchester.
He seemed to have settled down after tying the knot with Coleen in 2008 and having his first child in November of last year, but the reckless Rooney of years gone by continues to bubble underneath the surface. His mega-wages and privileged lifestyle are sure to have played their part - he obviously feels that being paid upwards of £100,000 a week gives him a divine right to do what he wants, when he wants.
It's a problem which fellow cheats like Terry, Cole and Crouch all seem to suffer from. As footballers with money, power and celebrity pulling power, they give little thought to how they act or who they hurt in the process.
He now has to begin the long, hard process of rebuilding his tarnished reputation - something that he may never be able to achieve no matter what he does in the future. He can only hope that in years to come people remember his name for all the right reasons, and not for what he did while he wasn't on the football pitch.
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