“I was happy at the Premier League and had just been promoted, but the scope of this role was just too big to turn down,” he says. Unlike today’s game, fans did not exactly swarm to the stadiums. ” Rooney returned in 2012 and went right back to work in the family business, becoming a fixture at the team’s headquarters well into his 80s. “In no other country do they keep the balls,” Bays coach Doug Millward said.