Rory Smith is a football reporter for the Daily and Sunday Telegraph in the north west, covering Liverpool and Everton, as well as Manchester United, Manchester City and the myriad other teams who make up English football's heartland. Manchester and England wait to fall in love with Wayne Rooney again Wayne Rooney's form will be central to his public rehabilitation (Photo: PA) There has always been something characteristically English about Wayne Rooney. The patriot might observe that he is possessed of that bulldog spirit which plays such a large part in the nation's psyche; the romantic might cite his work ethic, the ambition of the underdog, evidenced by his journey from boy in one of the country's most deprived areas to global superstar; the cynic may even point to the pallid countenance, the quick temper and the lingering suspicion that his diet and lifestyle are not always all they might be. Regardless, Rooney is the most autochthonous of idols. He is of England, by England, for England. Little wonder the country was so quick to take him to their hearts, from the very moment he burst into the public consciousness as a burly teenager eight years ago. Little wonder he has been forgiven his peccadilloes; the stamp on Ricardo Carvalho which earned him a red card against Portugal in the 2006 World Cup, in the popular imagination the moment Sven-Goran Eriksson's team's hopes of winning the tournament evaporated; not one, but two very public betrayals of his wife, Coleen; the