Rooney and Wright-Phillips spoke about footballing fathers in the show.Wright-Phillips has the distinction of having a professional football father and son.His dad, Ian Wright, is an Arsenal legend – and son D’Margio Wright-Phillips plays for Belgian club Beerschot.Speaking about his father and his young daughter, Wright-Phillips said: “A lot of people see you and just expect you to be as good as him or play the same way as him. “I got a lot of stick growing up from parents and all the rest of it, and I know my daughter’s been getting it recently at 11 already from parents. She’s been getting booed off the pitch when she’s come off injured. “I just tell her, I’ve always told them, ‘just play your game’. Answer all the questions with your football. Don’t have a reaction that everybody’s expecting you to react, which is normally taking your focus away from what you’re actually meant to be doing.”Speaking about D’Margio, he said: “He did actually really well at Stoke. And then the manager changes. It becomes a bit tricky. “And now he’s learning how to deal with the downside of football, which a lot of kids don’t see. A lot of kids just think you play football, you’re going to play all the time and you’re going to live the high life. “So he ends up going on loan, helped Beerschot get promoted to the championship, had a terrible season last year in terms of he was injured. “So mentally he didn’t know how to deal with it. And now the new coach has come in and they want him off the books and now he’s learning to deal with something else to do with football. “And there’s something he has to grow up and deal with because there’s only some things that me as a dad and as an ex-footballer can help him with.”Rooney’s son, Kai, has played for Manchester United in the Under-18 Premier League this season despite only being 15.”There’s a bit more pressure on them as well,” said Rooney.”Kai and [when Cristiano] Ronaldo came back, Ronaldo’s lads and Michael Carrick’s lad were all on the same team.”You go and watch and then all of a sudden there’s like 10 times the amount of people that’s normally there, all around the pitch watching, so there’s a lot more pressure because they’re coming to watch the three kids to see how they play and stuff. They’ve got to be ready.”
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