Wayne Rooney has revealed how he was 'slapped' by his father during a tough childhood which saw him 'brought up to fight for everything'.
The former England captain also admitted in a candid new documentary that he 'weren't the nicest kid' and 'had a lot of fights when I was younger', including with his own father.
The 'slaps' he suffered at home and his fighting on the streets of Croxteth in Liverpool forged Rooney's notoriously hard playing style, which repeatedly saw him sent off for impulsive violent acts on the pitch, including stamping on the genitals of Portugal's Ricardo Carvalho in the 2006 World Cup quarter-final.