Wayne Rooney tells crazy story over how David Moyes reacted when he was letting fireworks off in Everton’s gym

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Everton, over the years, have cultivated some odd stories which have only emerged many decades following the incident.

After all, no active player would want to give themselves a bad reputation as a troublemaker, and similarly, they would not want to incriminate an active manager or fellow player who facilitated such odd behaviour.

Fortunately, for both Wayne Rooney and Thomas Gravesen, their playing days are over, allowing the former to reveal a supremely strange event that occurred during his first stint with the Toffees, as a teenage prodigy.

Wayne Rooney recalls crazy Everton story

Speaking to Gary Neville, he told The Overlap just how difficult he was as a young superstar who had just burst onto the scene.

‘Remember the name, Wayne Rooney,’ went the iconic commentary line from Clive Tyldesley, as he fired past David Seaman in 2002 to etch his name into English football folklore.

And whilst plenty of talented teenagers have fizzled out after such a moment, he would only go from strength to strength, thriving under the authority of Sir Alex Ferguson and alongside the quality at Manchester United.

But before making that move, he admitted to having committed one act which left David Moyes stunned.

He revealed: ‘I was hard work. He would come in in the indoor gym and me and Thomas Gravesen were setting big rockets off, one end of the gym to each other, and Moyesey has walked in like what is going on. I was 16! You would light them and hold them and they would be going all over the gym.’

Sean Dyche would never allow that behaviour at Everton

Whilst Moyes took no fools during his time at Everton, it is almost certain that Sean Dyche would not allow something like that to fly nowadays.

Although, those were completely different times.

There is no chance that an incident like that could go on nowadays without someone being there to capture it on camera or leak it to the press. It would be huge news.

It is a testament to how the media has grown to completely dominate football that such a story has only come out over two decades after.

The former Burnley boss has outlined his penchant for a laugh and a joke, with Dyche’s punishment wheel one obvious example of this.

However, for a club that have fallen so are and are nowhere near where they should be in the Premier League, they have no time for festivities anymore. Not yet.