Wayne Rooney has revealed that he was once given a neck tie in a Manchester restaurant by Argentine football legend Diego Maradona - after arriving at the hot-spot 'fuming' with Sir Alex Ferguson. 'We got a good result,' Rooney said as he recalled the Red Devils' round-of-16 match against the Spaniards in 2013. 'Danny Welbeck scored a header, I crossed it in for a corner, Welbeck scored and we drew the game 1-1.' More memorably however was what happened in the aftermath, with Rooney stunning his co-hosts with details about his subsequent trip to Premier League footballer favourite, Chinese restaurant Wing's. It was a bit weird, he took his tie off, put it on me, my club tracksuit still on.'

Source: Metro February 27, 2026 12:16 UTC