Wayne Rooney scored his first goal back in English football on Tuesday night but he could not prevent Derby from losing away at bottom-placed Luton in the Championship.

INTERVIEW BY IAN HERBERT: It's when Rooney is asked whether Sir Alex Ferguson's old man-management ruses make more sense to him, now he is a player-coach, with Derby County.

Wayne Rooney has criticised the government and the football authorities for treating players as 'guinea pigs' in their confused message over the coronavirus outbreak.

The couple showed off their latest splurge as they took their £100,000 Mercedes GLS 580 for a spin on Tuesday.

Wayne Rooney, 34, paid tribute to his wife Coleen, 33, with a sweet Mother's Day post of her and their four boys shared on Instagram on Sunday.

Wayne Rooney revealed he's been getting stuck in to homeschooling his four sons on Monday, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Wayne Rooney says Cristiano Ronaldo's infamous 'wink' after he was sent off in the 2006 World Cup brought the pair closer together and inspired years of Manchester United glory.

There were calls earlier this week, most notably from Matt Hancock, for players to give up a chunk of their wages, with the health secretary urging Premier League footballers to 'do their bit'.

There have been calls for players to give up a chunk of their wages in recent days, with the Premier League also suggesting that they should take a pay cut of 30 per cent amid the coronavirus crisis.

England's record goalscorer Wayne Rooney has been warned by police after he broke coronavirus lockdown rules to meet Manchester City defender Kyle Walker, who was caught having a £2,000 sex party last week.

Sources say the problem with construction surrounds building supply deliveries for work on the 40 acre site in Cheshire being disrupted due to the coronavirus lockdown.

Chelsea will have to pay £5million if they want to sign 19-year-old Derby midfielder Max Bird, who impressed Blues boss Frank Lampard when he was manager of the Championship club.

Gary Neville has recalled the time he tried to relinquish his captaincy duties at United only for Ferguson to emphatically shut him down as he was worried of feuds breaking in the camp.

EXCLUSIVE BY SAMI MOKBEL: Sportsmail exclusively revealed how Rooney was acting on behalf of the squad in their battle against proposals to impose a 50 per cent wage deferral.

The couple, both aged 34, got together with their sons Kai, ten, Klay, six, Kit, four, and Cass, two, on their doorstep as they joined  millions across the nation at 8pm to applaud the heroes across the country.

Roy Keane admitted that he never got on well with former Manchester United teammates Wayne Rooney or Rio Ferdinand as he never understood their 'banter'.

Former Manchester United pair Ben Foster and Tom Cleverley have stated they think neither Cristiano Ronaldo nor Wayne Rooney were the best players at the club during their time at Old Trafford.

Derby County's first-team players and management have reached the end of their dramatic stand-off with the club by agreeing 'substantial' deferrals to their wages to help the Championship side.

Wayne Rooney has recalled the abilities of his former Manchester United colleague Ravel Morrison with the highest praise. And he's far from alone in remembering how good Morrison used to be.

The wife of Wayne Rooney, 34, and wife of Jamie Vardy, 38, are said to be holding an arbitration hearing via Zoom in a bid to avoid an expensive court case.

Stefanos Tsitsipas launched an extraordinary outburst at umpire Damien Dumusois as he tumbled out of the US Open against inspired Russian Andrey Rublev.

MIKE DICKSON IN NEW YORK: Serena Williams loftily dismissed the man who tried to discipline her in last year's tumultuous championship match at Flushing Meadows following her victory.

Bury supporters have been advised keeping Gigg Lane is key to starting a phoenix club after the Shakers' English Football League membership was withdrawn at 11pm on Tuesday night.

MIKE DICKSON IN NEW YORK: Britain's top doubles pair came back from 2-5 down in the deciding set on Wednesday night to beat Americans Jack Sock and Jackson Withrow.

Sir Alex Ferguson believes Michael Owen's injury problems began at a youth tournament held in Malaysia in June 1997, just a month after scoring on his professional debut for Liverpool.

The huge outlay required in prize money has not been matched by increases in ticket sales, meaning the tournament has been operating at a loss as revealed by Sportsmail last month.

Andy Murray, 32, revealed he loves chocolate biscuits, 'particularly the Leibniz ones' and that at the French Open in 2017 his pain stopped him playing his best in the Mail's health quiz.

MIKE DICKSON: Coco Gauff spent some of this week doing her high school homework, and ended it by taking the first of what will surely be many titles on the main WTA Tour.

Coco Gauff is remarkably through to her maiden tour-level WTA final at the tender age of 15 after defeating Germany 's Andrea Petkovic in the semi-final of the Linz Open on Saturday.

The couple, both 32, already have two daughters - Sophia, three, and two-year-old Edie. Their son is understood to have been born last week at a hospital in London, near their home in Surrey.

The International Tennis Federation (ITF), Wimbledon, and the US and French Opens have donated more than £300,000 to the Australian Bushfire relief efforts.

Serena Williams was seen flaunting koala-themed nail polish on the court on Monday as she took on Russian opponent Anastasia Potapova in Melbourne Park, on the first day of the Aus Open.

London commuters faced chaos this morning with disruption between Waterloo and Clapham Junction, on top of severe delays on two tube lines, the overground, TfL rail and Thameslink.

Simon Timson is to leave the Lawn Tennis Association to take up a comparable role at the Premier League giant after being the latest figure to try and solve the problems of elite player production.

The world of sport is a quiet place right now, as competitions spanning all disciplines across the globe have slammed shut their doors amid the growing pandemic. It is, however, not the first time.

Shoppers up and down the country have been stocking up on toilet paper, leading to fears of a shortage which could force customers to use kitchen roll or other substitutes.

Roland Garros, where the workforce on its new building projects downed tools earlier today, will shift from its expected start of May 24 and begin instead on September 20,

A glittering summer of sport is set to be wiped out by the impact of coronavirus - with social restrictions imposed earlier this week set to be in place for the next six months.

No sooner had Roland Garros lobbed a hand grenade into this year's tennis calendar than All England Club was adopting a Keep Calm And Carry On stance on whether to go ahead.

MIKE DICKSON: Holed up in her London flat, the usually globetrotting Jo Konta is clinging to the distant hope that Wimbledon might be saved from the cull of major summer sporting events.

The likelihood of Wimbledon being called off for this year was ramped up on Wednesday night after the All England Club revealed it was calling an emergency board meeting next week.

FA bosses are ready to offer the use of Wembley Stadium in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

The tournament will be cancelled for the first time since the Second World War, with options such as playing the event behind closed doors and postponement not viewed as feasible.

We've already seen coronavirus decimate the sporting calendar, with Euro 2020 and the Tokyo Olympics among dozens of events either postponed or cancelled. So what will be the next event to fall?

The All England Club is holding an emergency meeting on Wednesday to discuss the fate of the 2020 Championships but former mixed doubles champion Jamie Murray feels it has to be cancelled.

Wimbledon is expected to be called off in the next 24 hours, although the financial damage will be limited by its extensive insurance policy that guards against the Coronavirus pandemic.

The coronavirus pandemic spreading across the globe has put paid to many sporting events, and The Championships are the next to fall, with the UK death toll currently standing at 2,352.

The R&A moved swiftly on Thursday to knock down a report from America that the Open would suffer the same fate as Wimbledon and be cancelled.

Though expected, the cancellation of this year's Wimbledon for the first time since the Second World War caused an outpouring of emotion among tennis fans.

The All England Club's insurance policy, in the region of £1.5m-a-year, was updated in 2003 after organisers asked for a virus-related clause inserted following concerns over the SARS outbreak.