WAYNE ROONEY has admitted he and his pals used to trawl MANCHESTER looking for punch-ups.
The Scouser who was to become United’s record scorer would make the short trip from Merseyside to watch concerts by some of his favourite bands.
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But he always expected the night to end with a major scuffle – and on one occasion he was left with a broken jaw.
Rooney said: “I wasn’t the nicest kid at that age.
“I did some things which were wrong and had a lot of fights when I was younger.
“I wouldn’t say I was a bully but there were things I shouldn’t have done and I crossed the line.”
He added: “I don’t know if it was anger. Sometimes you got hit and that’s not nice but I used to get some sort of enjoyment out of it.
“Growing up I used to go to a lot of concerts, a lot of Travellers concerts, Stereophonics, Cast, who were a Liverpool band.
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“There was normally a lot of fighting at the end of it.
“You can imagine in the middle of the mosh pit there’s probably about 15 of us, all Scousers, and we could be in the middle of Manchester and would always end up with it being a fight between someone.
“I remember getting my jaw snapped in Manchester. I was about 13 and some guy grabs hold of me and hit me.
“He went to hit me again and I just dropped and threw a big haymaker at him and caught him and then I ran off.
“We wouldn’t go knowing there was going to be a fight but we knew there was a chance.
“We used to go to Southport and fight a lot as well.
“I’ve come back from Southport with my eye all stitched up and again my mum wasn’t happy. I was probably about 12.
“You get taught you have to fight to survive.
“It’s almost like you’re not going to get any favours from the government or from any people in power so you have to make your own way of living.
“For kids at that age, you have to fight. Sometimes that did boil over and that did happen.”
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