Many will remember Rooney’s first Premier League goal – a late winner at home to Arsenal, at the tender age of 16 – but his first road goal came just two appearances later at Leeds. Again coming off the bench, he turned Eirik Bakke and burst past Lucas Radebe before beating Paul Robinson from just inside the box.
That was Sunday 3 November 2002, and Rooney was off and running. Later that season he scored at Highbury, and the following campaign he started a notable trend by scoring more away than at home – something he repeated in 2005/06, 2007/08, 2010/11 and 2013/14.