Unwanted by Birmingham City fans, Wayne Rooney faces a battle to prove himself
BIRMINGHAM, England — There’s a tough crowd at Birmingham City and Wayne Rooney has already experienced the wrath of the club’s long-suffering supporters, who booed him at the end of his first home game (a 2-0 loss to Hull City) as manager last month. Birmingham are a blue-collar team and proudly so, rooted in the Small Heath area of England’s second-biggest city that was the setting for “Peaky Blinders,” the…