Love to sleep with the hair dryer on, admits Manchester United legend Wayne Rooney
In a recent appearance on the Stick to Football podcast, Manchester United legend Wayne Rooney had another interesting story to share.
When asked about that time he carried on sleeping and the team had to get spare keys from the hotel management to open his door, the former Man United and Everton forward made this admission:
“It was West Ham, yeah.
“I’ve done that a few times where I’ve fell [sic] asleep, because, well—I like to have a sleep in the afternoon as well and when I sleep, I sleep with the hair dryer on, like, blowing in my face.
“Sometimes that blanks the alarm and I sleep through.”
This elicited a chuckle from around the table before Rooney further admitted that he still slept in hotel rooms with a hair dryer on, despite one having melted overnight during one of his stints in Washington, DC.
The former England international has been making frequent appearances across the Overlap shows in recent weeks.
He has also been confirmed as the next Plymouth Argyle manager and will return to the EFL Championship next season. He was sacked weeks into his Birmingham City stint this season on the back of consistently poor performances, which played a significant role in the Blues getting relegated to the EFL League One at the end of this season.
If it works, it works
We all have different ways in which we find sleeping most comfortable.
What sets Rooney apart from the rest of the all-time football greats is that he comes off as a very relatable person, someone you’d know from down the road who could just as well be an everyday middle-class man and not one of the greatest footballers of his generation.
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In his media appearances, be it on podcasts or as a pundit, Rooney usually tends to endear himself to the listener and viewers. If this coaching thing doesn’t work out, which at the time of writing seems very likely, he will always find a job or two in the footballing media just waiting for him.
