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28th Oct 2015

PICS: This fan tried using Wayne Rooney’s tweets to get a date on Tinder

Guess how it went down...

Ben Kenyon

If you watched the recent BBC documentary on Wayne Rooney, you probably gathered he was a bit of a Lothario.

We found out that the Manchester United striker writes poetry to wife Coleen and even proposed to her on the forecourt of a petrol station, the old romantic.

So one fan thought it was a sure-fire winner to employ some of Rooney’s boundless charm and charisma to win the affections of girls on Tinder.

Using only the footballer’s old tweets as chat up lines, @Billie_T must have thought he was in there.

But just like Rooney’s current form, he played an absolute clanger.

The Evertonian’s X-Factor chat didn’t spark off any fireworks…

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The mere mention of Simon Cowell was a mood killer…

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This was so close, yet so far…

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Better luck next time…

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