On January 25, Wayne Rooney was voted soccer's "manliest" player in a poll of men and women — with Ashley Cole the biggest wimp, according to The Sun.

Roo, 26, pipped Man U team-mate Ryan Giggs to the title after a fifth of everyone in the survey picked him.

Chelsea love rat Cole, 31, was named least manly in the poll of 1,835 members of the public.

A spokesman for the men's grooming firm behind the survey said: "Rooney never pulls out of a tackle and always puts his body on the line for his team — qualities that make a man a 'real man'."