On Saturday night, a 31-year-old man raised on a council estate in Liverpool went drinking with friends and colleagues on an evening off and got chatting with guests at a wedding reception as he knocked back a few glasses of red wine. He stayed out until after 4 a.m. before disappearing off to bed to sleep off his revelry on a rare Sunday off work.
To most young men across Great Britain, this would sound like a perfectly reasonable way to behave. Yet this particular episode ended up being the subject of newspaper headlines within days since the person in question was Manchester United and England captain Wayne Rooney.