Soccer: Back to basics works for Rooney as Everton revival continues

THE SMILE is back on the face of Wayne Rooney and it is all thanks to old hand David Moyes teaching his young pup new tricks.

Soccer: Back to basics works for Rooney as Everton revival continues

There is no keeping Rooney out of the headlines as his 60th minute introduction on Saturday against Leicester was the turning point of a match Everton had let slip from their grasp.

With Everton 2-1 adrift, Moyes decided to unleash on Leicester his 18-year-old star, who perhaps might have been expecting to start after coming off the bench at Portsmouth last week and scoring the winner.

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