”While Jones likened the Rooneys to NFL royalty, Rooney’s personal touch and irrepressible good natu. Inevitably, players will reach a point in time when the demands become harder and harder to recover from. Bunce has also been eager to learn from other sports and says a fact-finding mission to the Cleveland Indians during their spring training camp in Arizona was “mind-blowing”. “It must be a baseball peculiarity carried over to soccer.