WAYNE ROONEY lifted the lid on Manchester United’s bus antics that got under a fellow legend’s skin.
Rooney, 39, joined United in 2004 and spent 13 glittering years at Old Trafford where he became the club’s record scorer with 253 goals in 559 appearances.
The iconic striker looked back at his stunning career in the latest edition of The Wayne Rooney Show and remembered one method the team adopted that helped the players come together.
That saw the likes of Rio Ferdinand, Michael Carrick, John O’Shea, Wes Brown and the England great teaming on the PlayStation Portable.
The Man Utd greats would play five vs five on the army game SOCOM on the bus before and after games.
However, the coach would get so loud and raucous that legendary goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar would get annoyed and sit far away from his noisy team-mates.
Rooney said: “Edwin van der Sar used to get annoyed, because we’re on the team bus and there’s just shouting on the team bus all over the place where you are telling people where you are.
“Sometimes if they have got one player left, you communicate, so you flank them, go and get them.
“Van der Sar used to get annoyed and move, he used to try and get as far away from us as possible!”
However, Rooney insists that was a great team bonding exercise between the lads.
The Everton hero insists their PSP games dramatically improved their communication skills.
Rooney added: “I really believe a big part of our success was playing on the PSP.
“It got us communicating more – we used to play it on the plane, on the team bus.
“It would be me, Rio, Michael Carrick, John O’Shea, Wes Brown.
“You have to talk, you have to tactically be right, go and revive people when they get killed and it was a massive part of our success – ask any of those players, it was brilliant.”
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