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“It was like he was thinking because someone in the Rooney family was a star player, he had to get one over John at least.” “Both fancied their chances of making it into the game, and Sean used to say he was better than John,” said Mark. The boys went to De La Salle School, and former pal Mark Tucker recalled Mercer’s rivalry with John Rooney – who, now 17, plays for League Two side Macclesfield Town. Rooney, now 23, and his wife Coleen, 22, both grew up less than half-a-mile from Mercer. “It’s the most tragic irony that Rhys had chosen the right path – he wanted to be the next Rooney – only to be robbed of his dream by someone who’d chosen the wrong one.’’ The 11-year-old, like the Rooneys, had snubbed the gang culture and dreamed of becoming a footballer.Ī senior detective told the Daily Star: “It is staggering to think Mercer went to the same school as Wayne Rooney, yet their lives have taken such incredibly different paths.

The pair were at Liverpool’s De La Salle school at the same time and Mercer often taunted Wayne’s brother John, another talented footballer, that he, Mercer, was a better player.īut while Wayne and John took the honest route out of the city’s crime-ridden Croxteth area, Mercer was last night starting a life sentence for the murder of Rhys Jones.

While Wayne achieved soccer superstardom, fellow promising player Mercer got caught up in a deadly game of street survival.

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