Rooney helps out at craft workshop as he begins unpaid work order

WAYNE ROONEY completed the first stint of his unpaid work order this week – at a community garden centre for adults with learning difficulties.

The Everton footballer was pictured leaving the centre yesterday at 3.04pm having, it is believed, completed two days of work, thought to be at least 12 hours, as part of his community service order of 100 hours’ unpaid work after he admitted drink driving.

Police found Rooney, 31, had 104mg of alcohol per 100ml of breath, when the legal limit is 35mg, after they pulled him over at 2am on Sept 1.

Speculation was made worse when it emerged that the former England captain, whose pregnant wife Coleen and their children were on holiday at the time, had been caught driving a VW Beetle with its owner, Laura Simpson, 29, who he had met hours earlier in a bar in Wilmslow, sat next to him.

While Rooney had asked a district judge to show leniency during his court hearing in Stockport on Sept 18, he was told that a “hefty fine” would not be as “punitive a sentence as a community order”. He was also banned from driving for two years. It is understood that Rooney is completing a large segment of his order during the international break in the Premier League.

Arriving at 8.40am yesterday, he wore a blue jacket with matching bottoms and black trainers. The garden centre, where he is understood to be assisting in the craft workshop and helping disadvantaged people with pottery sessions, is in Macclesfield, three miles away from his home in Prestbury, Cheshire.

He is completing the order at the same centre that Carlos Tevez, his former Manchester United colleague, attended when he was given a community service order after he was caught driving in 2013 while serving a ban.