Don’t begrudge soccer stars for earning while they can

Paul Rouse tackles the wage packets of some of your beloved, and less so, soccer stars and whether or not they deserve the kind of money they make.

The reports again this week that Wayne Rooney is considering a move to China to play soccer may be the usual speculative nonsense that passes itself off as journalism.

Equally, the story that Rooney is not actually going to China but is set instead on a return to his boyhood club, Everton, may also be pure invention.