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Coleen Rooney opens up about Wayne’s ‘mistakes’ and reveals football star’s love of romantic gestures

COLEEN Rooney has boasted how lovestruck hubby Wayne has often written her poems.

The mum of four told her I’m A Celeb campmate GK Barry that despite his tough image on the pitch, the England footie legend was a softie off it.

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Coleen Rooney has boasted how Wayne has often written her poems[/caption]
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Coleen told GK Barry that the England footie legend was a softie off the pitch[/caption]

And despite the ups and downs of their 16-year marriage — and him spending long ­periods away from home in his new job as Plymouth Argyle manager — she says they remain as strong as ever.

Coleen said: “Wayne’s always wrote me poems.

“You know the hotel pads? He was always writing a little poem and putting it in his bag and he’d give it to me when we got home.

“They’re nice to keep but I can’t remember the last time he gave me one . . . 

“He is romantic in ways, we’re not the lovey-dovey couple in public but little things like that I think it keeps the ­relationship alive and it’s ­special when someone’s done something just for you, and the words mean something.”

Earlier, Coleen told dancer Oti Mabuse how they had ­survived as a couple despite Wayne admitting to a string of infidelities since they first met as teens in home city Liverpool.

She said: “All he wanted to do was play football. He struggled with the fame side of it, he hated that.

“If he could’ve just played football and had none of the fame, I think he would’ve been happier within life. He’s made mistakes along the way, but from 16, obviously you’re going to, that’s life.

“We had to grow up quick, because we were living in the public eye.”

And she insisted that while forgiving some of his past behaviour has been difficult, the couple, remain steadfast in their love.

She added: “It has been difficult, but we’re happy now, after all those years . . . we’re a team.”

Meanwhile back home, Wayne has been prowling the touchline of his sons’ footie games after stepping into Coleen’s “soccer mom” role.

The former Everton and Manchester United ace usually only watches Kai and Klay play occasionally as he does not like the added pressure him being there can bring to them.

Coleen spent her last day before heading to Australia cheering on Klay, 11, as he played for a United’s kids’ team.

Wayne’s always wrote me poems

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But now Wazza has stepped up, and was at United’s training ground watching Kai, 15, play for the academy last weekend.

And he has told the boys he will get to as many games as he can while Coleen is in the jungle, despite having to spend several nights away each week in Devon due to his commitments managing Championship side Plymouth.

A source said: “Wayne isn’t a regular at his son’s games because it can create a bit of excitement on the touchline and he doesn’t want the boys to feel any pressure while playing.

“But with Coleen away, he’s told the lads he will come to as many games as he can.

“He’s joked that the added bonus is it gets him away from his in-laws, who are helping look after the kids.”

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Coleen, above with family, said: ‘I think it keeps the ­relationship alive and it’s ­special when someone’s done something just for you’[/caption]

I'm A Celebrity 2024

i'm A Celebrity is back for its 24th series, with a batch of famous faces living in the Aussie jungle. The Sun's Jake Penkethman takes a look at the stars on the show this year..

Coleen Rooney – Arguably the most famous name in the camp, the leading WAG, known for her marriage to Wayne Rooney, has made a grand return to TV as she looks to put the Wagatha Christie scandal behind her. The Sun revealed the mum-of-four had bagged an eye-watering deal worth over £1.5million to be on the show this year making her the highest-paid contestant ever.

Tulisa – The popstar and former X Factor judge has made her triumphant TV comeback by signing up to this year’s I’m A Celeb after shunning TV shows for many years. Known for being a member of the trio, N-Dubz, Tulisa became a household name back in 2011 when she signed on to replace Cheryl on ITV show The X Factor in a multi-million pound deal.

Alan Halsall – The actor, known for playing the long-running role of Tyrone Dobbs on ITV soap opera Coronation Street, was originally signed up to head Down Under last year but an operation threw his scheduled appearance off-course. Now he has become the latest Corrie star to win over both the viewers and his fellow celebrities.

Melvin Odoom – The Radio DJ has become a regular face on TV screens after rising to fame with presenting roles on Kiss FM, BBC Radio 1 and 4Music. Melvin has already been for a spin on the Strictly dancefloor and co-hosted The Xtra Factor with Rochelle Humes in 2015 but now he is facing up to his biggest challenge yet – the Aussie jungle.

GK Barry – The UK’s biggest social media personality, GK, whose real name is Grace Keeling, has transformed her TikTok stardom into a lucrative career. Aside from her popular social media channels, she hosts the weekly podcast, Saving Grace, and regularly appears on ITV talk show, Loose Women. She has even gone on to endorse popular brands such as PrettyLittleThing, KFC and Ann Summers.

Dean McCullough – A rising star amongst this year’s bunch of celebs, Dean first achieved notability through his radio appearances on Gaydio and BBC Radio 1. He was chosen to join the BBC station permanently in 2021 and has featured prominently ever since. He has enjoyed a crossover to ITV over the past year thanks to his guest slots on Big Brother spin-off show, Late & Live.

Oti Mabuse – The pro dancer has signed up to her latest TV show after making her way through the biggest programmes on the box. She originally found fame on Strictly Come Dancing but has since branched out into the world of TV judging with appearances on former BBC show The Greatest Dancer as well as her current role on ITV’s Dancing On Ice.

Danny Jones – The McFly star was drafted into the programme last minute as a replacement for Tommy Fury. Danny is the second member of McFly to enter the jungle, after Dougie Poynter won the show in 2011. He is also considered a rising star on ITV as he’s now one of the mentors on their Saturday night talent show, The Voice, along with bandmate Tom Fletcher.

Jane Moore – The Loose Women star and The Sun columnist is braving the creepy crawlies this year. The star is ready for a new challenge – having recently split from her husband. It will be Jane’s first foray into reality TV with the telly favourite having always said no to reality shows in the past.

Barry McGuigan – Former pro boxer Barry is the latest fighting champ to head Down Under following in the footsteps of Tony Bellew and Amir Khan. It comes after a tough few years for Irish star Barry, who lost his daughter Danika to bowel cancer. He told The Late Late Show in 2021: “She was such an intrinsic part of the family that every day we ache.”

Maura Higgins – The Irish TV beauty first found fame on Love Island where she found a brief connection with dancer Curtis Pritchard. Since then, she has competed on Dancing On Ice as well as hosting the Irish version of the beauty contest, Glow Up. Since last year, she has been working on building up her career in the US by being the social media correspondent and host of Aftersun to accompany Love Island USA. She even guest hosted an episode of the spin-off, Love Island Games, in place of Maya Jama last year.

Rev. Richard Coles – Former BBC radio host the Rev Richard Coles is a late arrival on I’m A Celebrity, and he’s ready to spill the beans on his former employer. The former Communards and Strictly star, said the BBC did not know its a**e from its elbow last year. An insider said: “Rev Coles will have a variety of tales to tell from his wild days as a pop star in the Eighties, through to performing on Strictly and his later life as a man of the cloth.”

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UK Championship snooker 2024 draw revealed as Ronnie O’Sullivan is handed tricky start

REIGNING CHAMP Ronnie O’Sullivan has been handed a tricky start in his defence of the UK Championship title.

The 47-year-old will face Barry Hawkins, in a repeat of the 2013 World Championship final.

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Judd Trump faces Aussie Neil Robertson[/caption]

The UK Championship gets underway this Saturday and will last through to December 1.

The ‘Rocket’ has been handed a tough first test as he looks to reach his first final of the season.

He’s somewhat out-of-form having endured disappointment in the Xi’an Grand Prix and Shanghai Masters.

O’Sullivan also suffered one of the biggest collapses in recent memory when he crashed out the Champion of Champions in embarrassing fashion after losing a 3-0 lead to Xiao Guodong.

Judd Trump, who will fancy his chances of a second UK title, faces Neil Robertson for second time in as many weeks.

The world No.1 counted himself “unlucky” after he took a swipe at Robertson’s tactics in his 6-4 quarter-final loss last week.

Elsewhere, reigning world champion Kyren Wilson – yet to win the UK Championship – will play Stephen Maguire.

And Mark Selby will meet Jack Lisowski, who stopped Bai Yulu becoming the first woman to reach this stage, in another eye-catching match.

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Champion of Champions winner Mark Williams must overcome Stuart Bingham in the last session on Tuesday.

While former Asda delivery driver and International Championship finalist Chris Wakelin returns to play fellow Brit Matthew Selt.

While four-time world champ John Higgins will play either He Guoqiang or Stan Moody.

All eyes will be fully focused on O’Sullivan and Hawkins come Saturday afternoon, though, with the eight-time UK winner’s match first on the card at the Barbican.

Shaun Murphy takes on Zhai Xintong and Ali Carter faces Ryan Day after O’Sullivan leaves the table.

O’Sullivan has a record 23 Triple Crown titles to his name and beat Ding Junhui in last year’s UK Championship final.

The full draw and schedule for the UK Championship

Saturday 23 November

  • Ronnie O’Sullivan vs Barry Hawkins
  • Shaun Murphy vs Zhao Xintong
  • Ding Junhui vs Robert Milkins
  • Xiao Guodong vs Dave Gilber

Sunday 24 November

  • Mark Allen vs Jackson Page
  • Ali Carter vs Ryan Day
  • Si Jiahui vs Wu Yize
  • Mark Selby vs Jack Lisowski

Monday 25 November

  • Chris Wakelin vs Matt Selt
  • Kyren Wilson vs Stephen Maguire
  • Luca Brecel vs Jak Jones
  • Gary Wilson vs Liu Hongyu/Michael Holt

Tuesday 26 November

  • John Higgins vs He Guoqiang/Stan Moody
  • Judd Trump vs Neil Robertson
  • Mark Williams vs Stuart Bingham
  • Zhang Anda vs Lei Peifan

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Ruben Amorim is joining a Man Utd in chaos… the mess behind the scenes will make him wish he never left Sporting

THE smiling face of Ruben Amorim and the promise of a bright new future is supposed to be giving everyone at Manchester United a lift.

Unfortunately, the public face of the Red Devils hides a very different story behind the scenes.

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Ruben Amorim faces the biggest challenge of his career as he prepares to take charge of United’s first game this weekend[/caption]
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But while the feeling is one of hope among fans, United are still plagued by a host of behind-the-scenes issues[/caption]
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Woeful recruitment choices and budgeting problems have spelt disaster for United in recent years[/caption]

One which could have the new boss pining for Lisbon before he knows it.

The ramifications of a disastrous summer for the club under new leadership are still being felt.

Not least among the rank-and-file staff, who are seeing their positions eroded and, in the worst-case scenario, extinguished   altogether with 250 redundancies.

They understandably wonder if they are collateral damage of decisions by the ex-manager and woeful recruitment.

Even Sir Alex Ferguson has not been safe with his £2million-a-year ambassadorial role axed.

Those who championed new part-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s arrival as having put a spring in everyone’s step have lost their bounce.

He took control of 27.7 per cent of the club from the Glazer family last February, with the mandate to run the football operation while the American owners sat back and continued to milk the cash cow.

He brought in trusted wingman Sir Dave Brailsford although, to this day, nobody at the club knows quite what his skills are or what he does, rather than telling everyone what is wrong.

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One of his first complaints was the state of the IT department’s office at the training ground, which he did not realise was actually an MUTV studio.

The handling of former gaffer Erik ten Hag has leapt to the top of the charts regarding bungling in 11 years since Fergie retired and the bar is already pretty high.

To cut a long story short, they wanted him out, couldn’t find anyone to replace him, asked him to stay, extended his contract, spent millions on a new coaching team at the Theatre of Dreams and then spent another £172.1MILLION in the transfer market.

Just 11 games into the new season, the hierarchy decided they would once again return to square one at great expense, with pay-offs for all those going out and a release clause fee for the new bloke coming in.

Now, questions are being asked internally at the highest level about how they got to this position, with fingers metaphorically pointed across the boardroom table.

Sir Jim has effectively washed his hands of it all, having claimed when questions about Ten Hag’s future intensified, that it wasn’t on him to provide the answers as they had a new senior management team in place to do all that.

That team includes Omar Berrada, the CEO poached from rivals Manchester City, who were not exactly tying him to the Etihad’s gates to stop him from going, and Dan Ashworth, the sporting director, who was good lower down the league on a budget.

Then there is Jason Wilcox, the technical director, who is supposed to influence how United play now.

If he’s already had input, goodness knows what he has been saying.

Ruben Amorim leaves Sporting on a high

By Charlie Wyett

RUBEN AMORIM would have preferred to leave Lisbon in a blaze of glory after winning a third Primeira Liga title.

Yet football does not work like that. And in what was surely his final game before taking charge of Manchester United, Amorim prepared to say his goodbyes at a half-empty Estadio Jose Alvalade in a League Cup quarter-final against Nacional.

Sporting won 3-1 thanks to  second-half goals by captain  Morten Hjulmand and Viktor Gyokeres, who scored two.

Luis Esteves pulled back for Madeira-based Nacional.

The stadium  will be a good deal more lively on Tuesday when Manchester City are here for  a Champions League match — although Amorim should by then have his feet firmly under his desk at Old Trafford.

Liverpool and Aston Villa were both interested in Europe’s most sought-after coach. Even City could have been a possible destination post-Pep Guardiola.

Yet the United job is one Amorim, 39,  could not turn  down — even if not everyone saw it that way at Sporting last night.

There is clearly a huge split in the Portuguese club’s fan base over their coach leaving at this stage of the season with many believing he should have seen the job through.

Yet Amorim, along with the three-man coaching team who are expected to follow him, leaves a club in a much better state than when he arrived here in 2020.

Inside the stadium, there was applause — albeit muted — when his name was read out before the game along with the line-ups.

And there did not appear to be any jeers when Amorim shuffled out from the tunnel awkwardly towards the dugout.

So, while his departure is hard to take for some, none of the fans will forget his legacy.

This is a club which is back as the dominant force in Portugal. Even this term, Sporting have won their first nine league games, scoring 30 goals and conceding just two.

They are also eighth in the Champions League table, which is one hell of an effort.

In contrast, Lisbon was not exactly hit by League Cup fever last night.

Amorim made lots of changes, which saw Sporting’s star man Gyokeres, the former Coventry striker, start on the bench.

There was, however, a first appearance in six weeks for former Tottenham winger Marcus Edwards.

He is certainly one player who has been transformed by Amorim since arriving at the club from Vitoria in 2022 and will be sorry to see the coach leave.

While he changed his team, Amorim stuck with his tried and trusted formation of a back three.

It will certainly be something Manchester United’s fans will have to get used to over the  coming months.

But looking at the Premier League table, none of them will be complaining about the change.

All will undoubtedly have had a significant influence on the summer spending splurge, which failed to raise the team’s performance.

The most bizarre transfer was the £36.5m paid to Bologna for Joshua Zirkzee.

Ten Hag didn’t want him. He arrived a stone overweight and has scored ONE goal.

Apparently a metatarsal problem showed up on Leny Yoro’s medical ahead of a £42m spend.

Lo and behold, in his second game of pre-season, he got a metatarsal injury and has only just started training during the current international break.

Then the question is why would Bayern Munich let go of defenders Matthijs de Ligt and Noussair Mazraoui at a combined total of £51.3m up front, rising to a possible £59.5m, if they were that good?

Only Manuel Ugarte, the £42.2m signing from Paris Saint-Germain, is looking close to being a United player, yet even he does not look a step up from Scott McTominay, who left for Napoli and is ripping it up.

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Leny Yoro reportedly arrived injured and has just returned to training[/caption]

The spending means Amorim’s ability to do anything in the next transfer window will be restricted unless he can shift players, but who is going to buy anyone from Old Trafford right now?

All this time behind the scenes, the ship is far from happy, with staff unceremoniously thrown overboard in a penny-pinching purge.

It has even led to chefs pulling their hair out to try to cover matchday hospitality on reduced budgets and staffing levels.

Long-standing employees feel like they have been cast aside like rubbish.

The most alarming story came when a staff member with 25 years at the club behind him was told he was being given a commemorative watch for his service.

He was then told to pick it up at main reception, where a security guard handed it to him in a polythene bag.

That’s a picture to show the grandkids in the future.

An award-winning journalist is currently tasked with shadowing Sir Jim and his new regime for a book on how they turned United around.

It may end up being a work of fiction.

Ruben Amorim is ‘Mourinho 2.0’ who turned Sporting from ‘walking dead’ into Portuguese champs… he can revive Man Utd

WHEN Ruben Amorim took charge of Sporting Lisbon in March 2020, one club official compared their situation to the “walking dead”, writes Jordan Davies.

Optimism and hope was at an all-time low.

But the Amorim-effect was almost instantaneous, guiding the Portuguese sleeping giants to their first league title for 19 years in 2020/21, losing just once and only conceding 20 goals.

Since then, Sporting have lifted another league title in 2023/24 – as well as two League Cups – and currently sit top with nine wins from nine this term.

He may be young, but Amorim already has an eye for rebuilding and revitalising fallen super powers with his infectious charisma and intense tactical philosophy that hardly ever wavers. 

The “walking dead” at Manchester United must be praying for a similar sort of revival.

And they may just get it from one of the most talented young coaches on the continent – a man accustomed to breathing new life back into crumbling institutions such as Old Trafford.

Amorim has spent the last decade dreaming of one day gracing England’s Premier League, such was his admiration for an ex-United boss in Jose Mourinho growing up.

Often nicknamed ‘Mourinho 2.0’, Amorim spent a week with his coaching idol in an internship capacity at United’s Carrington training base in 2018, going on to cite him as his “reference point”.

United should not be expecting a mini-Mourinho, as Amorim said himself: “Mourinho is one of a kind. There won’t be another Mourinho. Mourinho is unique.”

And yet, you cannot help but compare the two.

For all the mismanagement in the Old Trafford hot seats over the years, this would be a real get – finally a slap in the face United’s Prem rivals have no answer for.

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Jordan Neely’s cause of death wasn’t Daniel Penny chokehold — but ‘combined effects’ of drugs, struggle and schizophrenia: defense expert

Daniel Penny’s chokehold of Jordan Neely isn’t what killed the homeless man — he died from the “combined effects” of synthetic marijuana, schizophrenia and other factors, the defense’s medical expert testified Thursday. Dr. Satish Chundru, a forensic pathologist based in Texas, told jurors in Manhattan Supreme Court that Neely’s autopsy records and video of the fatal F...

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Nashville notes: Kips new music + Jamesons covering Merle Haggards Silver Wings

Kip Moore is set to release two new songs tomorrow. The news arrived on the social platform X alongside a presale link and project cover art featuring a monochrome shot of Kip onstage.  Another artist releasing a two-pack is “Cold Beer Calling My Name” singer Jameson […]

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0 Можна скільки завгодно прати майки, блузки та сорочки у пральній машині, але далеко не факт, що плями поту будуть повністю виведені. Загалом річ ​​буде чистою, проте сліди в зоні пахв все одно можуть залишатися. Якщо господині ніяк не вдається випрати предмети гардеробу повністю, то доведеться скористатися однією хитрістю. Що зробити перед пранням Йдеться про […]

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