NOVELIST Sally Rooney has admitted that she and her Match of the Day pundit brother Wayne no longer see eye to eye on many issues.
The Normal People author said that while she and Wayne once leant on each other for support, texting on a daily basis, disagreements meant they had not spoken since September last year.
She continued: “It’s sad, but I suppose it happens in many families. He feels my unequivocal support for Palestine Action is self-serving and naive; I believe he owes the fans of Birmingham City an apology for their relegation to the third tier.
“It used to be so different. When he was banging them in he’d always say ‘I believe in you Sally, you can do for affectless prose about lovelorn Irish teenagers what I do for United up front.’ That motivated me to go on.
“He actually came up with the titles for my first books. When I said the first was focused on discourse among intimates, he said ‘Why not call it Conversations Between Friends?’ Likewise, he read the second and said ‘It’s about, like, normal people, innit.’ That’s his genius.
“However, he disagrees with me politically, especially about Marxism and the BDS movement, and I felt he didn’t have a deep enough understanding of possession-based football to try and impose it on Plymouth Argyle. But I wish him well.”
Wayne Rooney said: “It’s f**k all to do with that. Have you read Intermezzo? Absolute shite.”
