'Like a movie' - Everton moment that changed Premier League history

Rooney: Teenage Kicks is the first comprehensive biography of former Everton player Wayne Rooney’s career.

Wayne Barton’s book contains brand new stories and exclusive new insights plus unique archive images with its release coinciding with the Amazon Prime documentary Rooney out this month.

A teenage prodigy who was both a maverick and one of a kind, Rooney became a record-breaking goalscorer.

His genius was evident from the early days he kicked a ball around the playing fields of his Merseyside home and he carried that instinctive talent from the streets of Croxteth to the biggest football arenas in the world.

Now, just over 12 months after he called time on his remarkable playing career, Rooney: Teenage Kicks chronicles the complete story in detail, from his early days making his mark on Everton’s books through to his coronation as the all-time leading goalscorer for England and Manchester United.

Over the past couple of days, the ECHO have been serialising extracts from the early chapters that chart home-grown hero Rooney’s rise to stardom with the Blues.

Rooney, like Moyes, was in need of something to justify his own hype.

That came in the form of becoming Everton’s youngest ever goalscorer on October 1, in a League Cup tie at Wrexham.

He came on in the 63rd minute; with eight minutes to go he was sent through by a Duncan Ferguson flick and showed predatory instinct to slip the ball through the goalkeeper’s legs.

He celebrated in a stationary position, arms aloft; the self-confident pose of a player who knew it was inevitable that he would score.

There was still time for another goal.

Lee Carsley’s raking through ball found Rooney in space on the right. The forward feinted to go inside and fired a shot into