Not really. Two local lads come good, playing for their boyhood club, dragging average players around them to glory and out of the [Poor language removed] on multiple occasions. One did it. One could have done it. That's the comparison.
It's also no more daft than saying Rooney is 'one of us'. What, Scouse and supported Everton as a kid?
So what? There's more to 'being one of us' than that. I personally wouldn't do some of the things he's done in his private life, nor would I have joined Man Utd. If I was playing for Everton I wouldn't want to play for any other club in the entire world.