Heartbreaking reason football legend Wayne Rooney is banned from his son's matches

Wayne Rooney's fame has been revealed as the reason the Manchester United icon has been banned watching his son, Kai, play football. The teenager, 15, is the oldest son of Rooney and wife Coleen, who also have three more sons - Klay, 11, Kit, eight, and Cass, six.

Kai joined the Red Devils academy in 2016, following in the footsteps of his legendary dad who spent 13 years at Old Trafford and ranks as their record goalscorer with 253 goals. While lauded as a highly-rated talent, the young forward has told his famous father that he's not allowed to go to his games, due to the mass attention he garners.

It was during Coleen's stint on ITV's I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here last year, having finished second to McFly singer Danny Jones, where she opened up about the tough decision made by her son.

"That's the thing with kids I think, it's hard to go on days out," Coleen told her campmates last December. "Kai told Wayne to stop coming to football games, when he played grassroots tournaments and stuff because he used to get swarmed and he couldn't even watch the game.

"How do you say to all of these kids, 'Go away, I'm watching my son?' Adults, it's different you could speak to them, so he [Kai] just said, 'Oh, dad there's no point you coming because you don't even watch me play anyway.' Which is sad, but it can't be helped anyway. At the same time, the fans help you along the way and get you where you are."

Despite his father's absence, Kai has continued to impress in the academy and was even on the scoresheet in United's first match at the SuperCupNI on Monday.

The teen netted a penalty and copied the signature celebration of Arsenal's newest signing, Viktor Gyokeres. After providing the assist for Sam O'Brien's opening goal against West Cork Academy, Kai stepped up to score the spot-kick before team-mate Abdoulaye Bassirou Nkoto added a third.

The celebration, which consists of Gyokeres covering his face by interlocking his fingers, was created while the Swedish international was on holiday, who admitted his friends urged him to create his own goal celebration. "Before I got it, my friends were always saying to me to find my own celebration because they were very tired of me doing all kinds of stuff when I was celebrating," he previously revealed.

"I had some time off. We went on vacation together. During that time, we came up with it after a while. We thought it looked good, and I started doing it straightaway. It felt even better on the pitch."