4.3 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Hello Football Daily listeners, we’d like to introduce you to The Wayne Rooney Show. If you like it then make sure you search for The Wayne Rooney Show on BBC Sounds and hit subscribe.
In this episode, Wayne Rooney relives football’s fiercest grudge matches with Kelly Somers and Kae Kurd, just in time for Liverpool v Everton and Arsenal v Man City. From feeling sick before Merseyside derbies to locking Coleen out the house for hanging Liverpool flags up. He opens up on Pizzagate, smashing into opponents, and why his friendship with Steven Gerrard stopped at kick-off. Plus, why Jamie Carragher acted like Liverpool’s referee, why Arsenal’s squad is the strongest in the league, and why tiredness is no excuse before big games. Watch The Wayne Rooney Show on BBC Sport YouTube and iPlayer, or listen now on BBC Sounds.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:07.3 | He scored goals, lifted trophies and broken records along the way. |
| 0:11.4 | And now he's got a podcast. |
| 0:13.2 | Welcome to the Wayne Rooney show. |
| 0:15.2 | Twice a week, Wayne Rooney, Kay Kerrude and me, Kelly Summers, |
| 0:18.6 | break down the biggest stories in the Premier League and beyond. As much as you'd like to say it, loyalty in football nowadays is no existence, whether that's fun players or managers. Plus, we'll hear the funniest, wildest and most outrageous stories from Wayne's career. The Wayne Rooney show. It's what everybody's talking about. Watch an eye player, listen on sounds. Hi, football day, the listeners. |
| 0:37.8 | Wayne Rooney here, and you're about to listen to an episode of my new podcast, The Wayne Rooney Show. If you enjoy it, make sure you search for the Wayne Rooney show on BBC Sound and hit subscribe. I know you're all messaging each other on social media, but for 90 minutes, please, just like... That was me and Steve Gerard. see jazz are good mates off the pitch |
| 0:56.4 | and whenever I got a chance, I'm thinking, I am going to absolutely smash her. Yes. We got back in the restroom, and the manager come in, and he was an old man. Yeah. Do you know what I mean? And he was shaken as an Evertonian and getting ready and preparing for the game |
| 1:12.9 | and all the staff around the train down |
| 1:14.8 | and do with Evertonians, you feel sick. |
| 1:17.9 | Talking about scraps in the tunnel, |
| 1:19.9 | I saw Emil Hesky in a podcast saying that you got into scruff. |
| 1:23.5 | No comment. |
| 1:31.1 | Don't worry, when I'm in Manchester you can come then I'm at the I'm close to you it's at the Lowry |
| 1:34.0 | So what's this guys are you are you arranging the team not out to go and watch |
| 1:37.5 | Kay is that the plan there Wayne yeah yeah yeah was going to just come watch him |
| 1:42.0 | put them a bit more pleasure okay it's been a big week for you, hasn't it? Well, yeah, just been up and down the country. No, say the thing that I'm really excited about. I did Lavered Apollo last night. Yeah, I did Lavered Apollo last. How was it? Yeah, great. It's always a fun venue. That's probably my favourite venue to do comedy. |
| 2:02.2 | I'm lucky enough to be like one of few people that have done it three times. So it's, |
| 2:08.8 | yeah, it's great fun. Okay, let's move it on to the Premier League this weekend then, |
| 2:13.6 | because there are, as always, some big games, but some particularly big games. |
| 2:23.0 | Two grudge matches. Liverpool versus Everton is 1230 on Saturday. Arsenal versus Manchester City is 4.30 on Sunday. Now Liverpool, Everton has obviously been a grudge match for years. Arsenal |
| 2:28.8 | Man City is perhaps a more newer grudge match. That wasn't such a big game, was it, when you were playing |
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