Ladies and Gentlemen, I Give You…Wayne Roo-knee

Pop quiz hotshots…what happens when a 31-year-old Manchester United fan with a couple of titanium plates in his knee reinjures the same knee in a motorcycle accident?

You get the soccer equivalent of the Jesus tortilla…ladies and gentlemen, I give you Wayne Roo-knee!  Get it…like Rooney, only Roo-knee.  I tell ya, sometimes comedy just writes itself.

Rich Rigby is the fan in question, who managed to hobble his way down to the local pub after the accident, despite some oddly-shaped swelling in his knee.  It was at the pub that his friends noticed the eerie resemblance of his malformed knee to his favorite football player, Wayne Rooney.

According to Rigby…

“I was having a drink with friends and when I showed them my knee we realised it looked like Rooney, so our lass took a photo.

“Everyone was laughing about it. It beggared belief – he is a legend and I never thought he would appear on my knee.

“All his facial features were there, you could see his small ears, nose and he even had a beard like the real Rooney.”

I’ve studied Rigby’s knee, alone, and alongside a picture of Man U’s Rooney–before and after downing a couple of pints.  And you know what, I saw it…I could actually see the angelic image of Wayne Rooney in Rich Rigby’s knee.  It may have been the extra stout ale I was guzzling though, because I also saw Cristiano Ronaldo’s face in my wife’s back hair.

Now, have a look at Wayne Roo-knee as compared to the real Rooney, and prepare to have your mind blown…

Frightening, isn’t it?  A few more pints and I won’t be able to tell them apart.

Mr. Rigby is hoping that this is a sign that Manchester United is destined to win the Premier League, and that the real Rooney will have a smashing World Cup for England.  Me, I think it’s a sign that Rigby and his drinking buddies need to stay home from the pub a little more often.

[Wakefield Express via Out of Bounds]