Having made his name with Everton Wayne Rooney at the tender age of 16 became a household name and in 2004 Rooney made the move to Manchester United in a deal worth £25. 6million.
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England and Australia have revealed their 21-man squads for this weekend’s Four Nations final at Elland Road on Saturday.
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London Wasps have announced that after 300 appearances in a career which spanned more than two decades, former England World Cup winning flanker Joe Worsley will retire immediately from the rugby due to a neck injury.
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Former Rabobank and Geox TMC rider Mauricia Ardila has signed with the new Colombia-Coldeportes team. * * The 32 year old Columbian rider is best known for winning the 2004 Tour of Britain, taking the national tour while being a member of the Chocolade Jacques team.
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Stoke are thought to be at an advanced stage of negotiations for the transfer of VVV-Venlo striker Michael Ucebo, the Dutch club has revealed.   The Potters have been linked with a number of strikers and it now seems manager Tony Pulis is about to conclude a deal for the 21-year-old Nigerian.
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Tottenham are keen to bring Blackburn winger Junior Hoillett to White Hart Lane despite manager Steve Kean warning the youngster that he should avoid moving away from Ewood Park.
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Manchester City are reportedly set to make their interest in Xherdan Shaqiri official by lodging a €12m bid for the winger in January. The 20-year-old Swiss international has been attracting the interest of Europe's top clubs having emerged last season as one of football's most exciting young players.
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On the Friday and Saturday preceding Halloween, 20,000 snow and music fans alike descended on Battersea Power Station for the unique and captivating event that is the Relentless Freeze Festival.
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World No. 3 Andy Murray is back in action this week at the Swiss Indoors event in Basle on the back of a a 15-match winning streak.
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Maria* Sharapova has pulled out of the WTA Championship in Istanbul with an ankle injury, leaving the way open for Caroline Wozniacki to end the year as world number one for the second year running.
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Keegan Bradley held off a determined final-round charge from Charl Schwartzel to win the PGA Grand Slam. Bradley shot a level-par 71 to move to 4 under for the tournament, a shot ahead of Schwartzel, who tied the course record with a 65 after he came into the finale at 3 over.
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Team Sky has announced that former Olympic Academy trio Ian Stannard, Ben Swift and Peter Kennaugh, who all formed part of Sky’s backbone in the team’s debut season in 2010, have re-signed for 2012.
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World road race champion Mark Cavendish has said he likes the look of the 2012 Tour de France route, which was revealed in Paris on Tuesday.
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Team Sky has announced that World Road Race champion Mark Cavendish will join them from 2012. There had been much made of the future of Cavendish with his contract at HTC-Highroad set to expire at the end of this year.
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Domestic Twenty20 cricket is about to hit the USA, as a new tournament is unveiled as part of a programme to promote the game within America.
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For the first time, a Heineken Cup pool stage match will be played outside Europe as reigning Aviva Premiership champions Saracens announce they will play their tie against Biarritz in Cape Town in January.
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The organisers of the 2012 Giro d'Italia have revealed details of the opening three stages which will be held in Denmark as the race takes in Scandinavia for the first time. The opening stage on May 5 is a circular time trial of 8.
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England Under-21 manager Stuart Pearce has ruled himself out of the running to take replace Fabio Capello when the Italian's contract runs out after Euro 2012.
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HTC-Highroad star Mark Cavendish sprinted to his second stage victory in this year’s Tour of Britain, on Stage Eight in rain-hit London as Dutchman Lars Boom won the event overall. Cavendish and team-mate Mark Renshaw secured their third one-two finish of the week on Whitehall after a 10-lap circuit of central London.
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After a successful stage six in Somerset,  Lars Boom remained on course for a Tour of Britain win by protecting his 28-second advantage on stage seven in Suffolk and Norfolk.
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