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“Hello Donal, it’s Wayne Rooney”
26.03.10
Red Devils star phones
Moville man
by Caoimhinn Barr, Inishowen Independent
A MOVILLE businessman got the shock of his life when
he answered his phone and Wayne Rooney was on the
other end of the line.
Manchester United fan, Donal Skelly, couldn’t
believe his ears when the star forward called
following the Reds’ recent win over Milan in the
Champions League.
The call came about after another local man, John
Duffy, from Redcastle, spotted some United players
in a restaurant at Deansgate, Manchester, earlier
this month.
Celtic fan, John, immediately texted United-mad,
Donal, to tell him he was sitting near Park Ji Sung
and Rafael when Wayne and Colleen Rooney walked into
the restaurant.
“I replied to John to tell Wayne - thanks for
signing my son’s shirt! And the next thing I knew
Rooney himself was on the phone,” Donal said. |
“I said hello and he
said ‘This is Wayne Rooney, I’m with your mate John
Duffy and he tells me you’re a big United fan’. I
didn’t know what to say because I was shocked and
didn’t really believe it was actually him,” Donal
added.
John had arranged the call |
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after running into
Wayne in the restaurant toilets. The Redcastle man
asked Rooney, who scored twice against Milan the
night before, how he got so much power in his
headers and if he was looking forward to the World
Cup; before asking the star to call Donal in
Moville.
Donal, who has a season ticket in the scoreboard end
at Old Trafford, regularly flies over to see United
and was at the Carling Cup final triumph over Aston
Villa in London last month.
The Moville taxi man has been a United fan all his
life and hopes to see his heroes eclipse Liverpool
with a record 19th league title in May.
Part of a United-mad family, Donal’s mother, Sadie,
and brother, Liam, regularly travel to watch Alex
Ferguson’s team in action. |
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