Sam Allardyce dismisses Anfield fear factor: ‘We’ve got Wayne Rooney’

Everton have not won at Anfield since 1999 but their manager believes 32-year-old forward can be crucial to their hopes of ending their dire run of derby formAnfield has become a place of foreboding for Evertonians irrespective of their team’s startling decline this season and Liverpool’s prolific form. But not for Wayne Rooney. This is the game the former England captain has been waiting for since rejoining his boyhood club in July and he is the reason Sam Allardyce believes Everton