Rooney was a great, and the film proves that, but you can’t help wondering how much greater he could have been.

A film designed to reboot the collective memory banks and secure his status as a footballing great.

Rooney is an open and introspective manuscript as the iconic footballer transitions into the next part of his career. And it gave the audience one more display of just how unbelievably good he was.

The makers threw themselves up and down the pitch desperately trying to set him up as an elder statesman of football. Isn’t he a bit more interesting than that?