Why Rooney partied with Man City players after 6-1 derby humiliation

Wayne Rooney has been progressive successful plentifulness of Manchester derby moments - some bully and bad.

He moreover partied pinch guidance players aft 1 of nan worst defeats of nan Sir Alex Ferguson era.

United's all-time apical scorer was speaking astir it pinch erstwhile City winger Shaun Wright-Phillips connected nan latest version of his BBC podcast, The Wayne Rooney Show.

City big United connected Sunday (16:30 BST) successful their first crippled since nan world break.

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One of nan astir memorable Manchester derbies was City's 6-1 triumph astatine Old Trafford successful October 2011.

"I deliberation that was a large infinitesimal for City backmost past because you could consciousness City coming up and getting person to us," Rooney said.

"But to travel to Old Trafford and triumph 6-1, I deliberation that was a statement. I retrieve being connected nan transportation and it was horrible.

"It was for illustration successful nan 2nd half, conscionable felt for illustration it was extremity aft goal, and you're conscionable like, 'oh, get maine disconnected this pitch'."

But he would not beryllium capable to move disconnected from nan crippled that night.

"After thing for illustration that I'd usually conscionable spell home. But I had a day party. Joe Hart, Gareth Barry and a fewer of nan City players were invited to my day party," he said.

"You've sewage family, friends, everyone who's made their ain plans to come. I was like, 'I can't cancel it' truthful I went.

"We've sewage nan United lads, immoderate of nan City lads sat there. I deliberation it was me, Crouchy [Peter Crouch], Harty [Joe Hart] - we each sewage up and did a opus of Backstreet Boys. Looking back, I should person cancelled, but it was nan friends and family who'd each booked nan clip disconnected and sewage nan babysitters and stuff."

Months earlier that 6-1, Rooney scored 1 of nan astir iconic Premier League goals successful a derby.

His overhead footwear gave them a precocious 2-1 triumph successful February 2011.

It won nan Premier League Goal of nan 20 Seasons grant successful 2012.

"I was truthful bad successful that game. It's 1 of nan worst games I've ever played. I couldn't power a ball," Rooney said.

"I deliberation it's much of an iconic extremity because it's nan derby, you people and triumph nan crippled 2-1. But you don't practise overhead kicks."

Rooney says his favourite derby representation was successful 2007 erstwhile United won 1-0 done a Cristiano Ronaldo punishment to move to nan brink of nan title.

"The adjacent time we won nan league," said Rooney, for whom it was his first Premier League title. "We evidently each met up and went out. But I deliberation we knew if we won that crippled [against City], we won nan league."

Rooney and Wright-Phillips said astir footballing fathers successful nan show.

Wright-Phillips has nan favoritism of having a master shot begetter and son.

His dad, Ian Wright, is an Arsenal fable - and boy D'Margio Wright-Phillips plays for Belgian nine Beerschot.

Speaking astir his begetter and his young daughter, Wright-Phillips said: "A batch of group spot you and conscionable expect you to beryllium arsenic bully arsenic him aliases play nan aforesaid measurement arsenic him.

"I sewage a batch of instrumentality increasing up from parents and each nan remainder of it, and I cognize my daughter's been getting it precocious astatine 11 already from parents. She's been getting booed disconnected nan transportation erstwhile she's travel disconnected injured.

"I conscionable show her, I've ever told them, 'just play your game'. Answer each nan questions pinch your football. Don't person a guidance that everybody's expecting you to react, which is usually taking your attraction distant from what you're really meant to beryllium doing."

Speaking astir D'Margio, he said: "He did really really good astatine Stoke. And past nan head changes. It becomes a spot tricky.

"And now he's learning really to woody pinch nan downside of football, which a batch of kids don't see. A batch of kids conscionable deliberation you play football, you're going to play each nan clip and you're going to unrecorded nan precocious life.

"So he ends up going connected loan, helped Beerschot get promoted to nan championship, had a unspeakable play past twelvemonth successful position of he was injured.

"So mentally he didn't cognize really to woody pinch it. And now nan caller coach has travel successful and they want him disconnected nan books and now he's learning to woody pinch thing other to do pinch football.

"And there's thing he has to turn up and woody pinch because there's only immoderate things that maine arsenic a dada and arsenic an ex-footballer tin thief him with."

Rooney's son, Kai, has played for Manchester United successful nan Under-18 Premier League this play contempt only being 15.

"There's a spot much unit connected them arsenic well," said Rooney.

"Kai and [when Cristiano] Ronaldo came back, Ronaldo's lads and Michael Carrick's lad were each connected nan aforesaid team.

"You spell and watch and past each of a abrupt there's for illustration 10 times nan magnitude of group that's usually there, each astir nan transportation watching, truthful there's a batch much unit because they're coming to watch nan 3 kids to spot really they play and stuff. They've sewage to beryllium ready."