Football: Rooney banned from driving after drink-drive guilty plea

Posted by Kaye Fe on September 18, 2017

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Manchester United’s Dutch manager Louis van Gaal (R) speaks with Manchester United’s English striker Wayne Rooney before the start of the FA Cup trophy following the English FA Cup final football match between Crystal Palace and Manchester United at Wembley stadium in London on May 21, 2016. / AFP / Ian Kington /

STOCKPORT, United Kingdom (AFP) — Former England captain Wayne Rooney was on Monday banned from driving for two years and ordered to perform 100 hours of unpaid work after pleading guilty to drink driving.

Rooney was charged after being stopped by police while driving a black Volkswagen Beetle at 2:00 am on September 1.

The car belonged to a woman he had met in a bar.

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