Chelsea’s away dressing room was too hot. Liverpool’s was too cold. Sunderland’s once proved a nasty surprise for Manchester United’s players from some leaking toilets on the floor above.

Those are some of the stories Wayne Rooney has revealed when remembering some of his oddest away trips on his latest BBC podcast.

Speaking on The Wayne Rooney Show, the former England captain added that plenty of his away games throughout his career have been disrupted the night before.

“We’ve had fireworks outside the hotel at different places,” he said.

“There was one year, we played New Year’s Day and we stayed in a hotel in Birmingham.

“Because there were parties downstairs in the function rooms, they put us on the top floor. But they forgot to tell us that there was a firework display on the roof of the hotel.

“At midnight all the players were woken up by all these fireworks going off right above us.”

As for the flooded dressing room in Sunderland, Rooney said: “I was actually suspended [for the match].

“But above the dressing rooms were the toilets and it [the roof] came through when all of the players were in their clothes.

“I think there was a load of whatever goes into the toilet, all over the players and the clothes.

“You get some tight dressing rooms. Tottenham and Chelsea were always hot. You’d literally get dressed as quick as you can and then stand outside the dressing room.

“Anfield was always freezing. I don’t know whether they manipulate the temperature in there.”

Rooney added that a return to a former club could often provide the most painful away trip. When the striker went back to Goodison Park for the first time after joining Manchester United – for an FA Cup tie in February 2005 – his father refused to watch.

“Yeah, was horrible. Obviously it’s a ground I’ve been going to since I was a kid, a baby,” said the 39-year-old, who joined United as a teenager from Everton for £27m in 2004.

“My dad, that was the game he wouldn’t go to. Because obviously he knew I’d be getting a lot of stick and he’d go to all the Everton games and he wouldn’t go to that one, at Goodison.”