Noel signs Man City guitar for Rooney

Tuesday, October 23 2007, 14:51 BST

By Alex Fletcher
Noel signs Man City guitar for Rooney

Noel Gallagher has given Wayne Rooney a guitar in the colours of
Manchester City's football kit.

Rooney's girlfriend Coleen McLoughlin asked Gallagher to sign the
instrument as a present for the Liverpool-born striker.

His love of Manchester City, Rooney's footballing rivals, is well
known, and he reportedly decided to sabotage the gift.

The rocker reportedly wrote on the blue-sprayed guitar: "Happy
Birthday Fatboy."

A source told The Sun: "Noel couldn't believe it. Mancs and Scousers
haven't been the closest of friends - and asking a City fanatic to
sign a guitar for a United player is a red rag to a bull. It was a
gift for Noel - he loves a wind-up."