In 2006 Wayne Rooney, then a 20-year-old Manchester United forward, signed a £5m deal for five autobiographies to be published over the next 12 years. But two books never surfaced; instead we got kiss-and-tell memoirs from Helen Wood and Jenny Thompson, whose company he bought while his wife, Coleen, was pregnant with their first child, Kai, now a record-breaking goalscorer in United’s youth academy. Her new book skimps on none of that, even if its headline attraction is naturally last year’s legal tussle with Rebekah Vardy, who unsuccessfully sued for libel after Coleen told 1m Instagram followers that the tall tales she’d been posting online had ended up as tabloid scoops after being made visible only to Vardy’s account.
