No special treatment for new boy Rooney at United

ALEX FERGUSON sympathises with the intrusion Wayne Rooney will have to put up with now he has joined Manchester United - but that will not stop him getting the hairdryer treatment if he falls foul of the manager's strict disciplinary code.

Although Rooney has not played a minute since he limped out of England's Euro 2004 quarter-final with hosts Portugal in June, rarely has a day gone by without him making headlines of one sort or another. Most recently, they have been to do with transgressions in his private life - the type that Ferguson will not tolerate.

Even though he accepts times have changed markedly from the day he burst into a party Lee Sharpe and Ryan Giggs were hosting and ordered all the girls present to go home, Ferguson likes his players to have a controlled and stable family life.