Baines met his hero when he was staying in the same hotel as Roy Hodgson’s team in Miami last week

Manchester United forward Danny Welbeck showed off his samba skills ahead of England’s opening World Cup clash on Saturday

Manchester United’s England duo Phil Jones and Chris Smalling should be nowhere near the England World Cup squad, but who is pushing for their places.

As Redhead Day UK returns to Manchester this weekend, MM picks its top (or should that be carrot-top?) Mancunian redheads.

Wayne Rooney has dismissed claims from former Manchester United teammate Paul Scholes that his best years are behind him ahead of England’s World Cup warm-up game again against Honduras.

The Dutchman was one of 142 coaches from 20 countries including the UK, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain who were consulted by the League Managers Association (LMA) for its Castrol European Manager & Coaches Survey

Welshman Giggs envisages good times under the new regime though it may well be a few years yet until he takes on a management himself after a career that included a record 963 appearances for the Old Trafford club.

Despite Marc Wilmots’s side winning side 5-1 where goals included a hat-trick from Romelu Lukaku, FIFA have ruled the win as invalid due to Wilmots making too many substitutions in the World Cup warm-up match.

Louis van Gaal, who in nine days time will watch on as the Dutch take on Spain in their World Cup opener, heads to Brazil hoping to land the 1988 European champions their first Jules Rimet trophy.

The 76-year-old singled out Rooney as being the only true ‘world class’ player in the Three Lions squad and says the 28-year-old must start in Manaus against Italy on June 14 despite an indifferent season.

Recently retired ex-Manchester United midfielder Park Ji-Sung did not take long to get back into the game after calling time on his Korea – after taking part in a charity match.