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Wayne Rooney’s years at top take their toll on Manchester United captain | Daniel Taylor

He does not turn 31 till next month but Wayne Rooney made his Premier League debut at 16 and players who start out young often pay a priceThey changed the format of the press conferences at Manchester United some time ago. For the past 10 years or so, everything has been in front of the cameras and the managers, as such, always tend to put on their face for television, remember to mind their language and often disguise, or water down, what they really feel. It is a PR world more than ever before, but it used to be much better fun in the old days when Sir Alex Ferguson held separate briefings, the cameras turned off, where he could...

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