From managerial rollercoaster to real-life thrills and spills! Wayne Rooney enjoys family theme park day out with wife Coleen

Coleen Rooney posted a selection of pictures from the family's recent half-term trip to Alton Towers, less than an hour from their home in Cheshire's Golden Triangle, including her and Wayne riding the iconic Oblivion rollercoaster.

Coleen spoke openly during her 2023 documentary series, The Real Wagatha Story, about how her relationship with Rooney had been in trouble in the two years leading up to the 2019 Wagatha Christie explosion with Rebekah Vardy. But those problems apear to be long behind them almost a decade on from Rooney's 2017 drink-driving arrest and conviction.

Just over five months on from his dismissal by Plymouth Argyle on New Year's Eve, Rooney still harbours ambitions of returning to football management. He has held three different head coach roles at EFL clubs since 2020, plus a stint in charge of D.C. United, but the 39-year-old has insisted he isn't precious about building up more experience in a lower profile role for his next job.

"I'd have no problem dropping into an Under-21 team or going in as [assistant] coach," Rooney told the Stick to Football podcast in April. "I'm still young enough to learn and develop. Just having a good group of players who were at a [good] level."

Plenty of eyes will be on Rooney over the summer if there are EFL vacancies or even potential opportunities to join up with a Premier League club. Ruben Amorim looks pretty set with his staff at Manchester United, but David Moyes is soon embarking on his first full season back at Everton and fans would surely love to see Rooney on the staff of the manager who gave him his debut 23 years ago.