His managerial ability remains unproven, but the old-school energy Rooney represents ensures he is still fondly regarded. Re-centre your de-centred centre. Thirty-seven new year wellbeing tips on how to simplify your wellbeing tips. I lost seven inches of neck fat without visiting a gym, changing my diet or having any neck fat to begin with.
![[Barney Ronay]](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/uploads/2022/11/21/Barney_Ronay.png?width=180&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none)
The problem with this kind of new year newspaper stuff, the endless weekend articles about how to make yourself feel better, is that it is usually quite complicated. There is a need to understand things, balance your energies, interact with a baffling digital world.
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The fact is most people, and definitely most men, would be happiest if they could just spend every day smashing up garden statues with a hammer. Lie in a pile of leaves for a bit. Eat cheese with a penknife. Spend the afternoon burning a big pile of cardboard boxes. At the end of which someone would say, we really needed those statues smashing. You are a hero. Here is a special badge that says “I am a Good Boy.”.
![[Wayne Rooney (centre) is fouled by France’s Mikaël Silvestre (right) to earn a penalty at Euro 2004]](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/891e0d3bab7757ff58c6561f11584d023303e59f/0_180_2347_1408/master/2347.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none)
This is basically the recipe for human happiness. Unfortunately there just isn’t the opportunity to do all of this. Instead you have to understand things, make small changes involving nutrient intakes, listen to podcasts about weaving, as opposed to just being really excellent at banging things with a hammer.
This is not completely unrelated to another January staple, the departure of Wayne Rooney from his latest managerial post, which is showing signs of becoming a new year ritual, like wassailing or first-footing. Rooney was sacked by Birmingham on 2 January last year after 15 games in charge. This time his departure from Plymouth by “mutual consent” came on New Year’s Eve after 25 games.
