""I think that was a big moment for City back then because you could feel City coming up and getting closer to us," Rooney said. "But to come to Old Trafford and win 6-1, I think that was a statement. I remember being on the pitch and it was horrible. "It was like in the second half, just felt like it was goal after goal, and you're just like, 'oh, get me off this pitch'.""
""You've got family, friends, everyone who's made their own plans to come. I was like, 'I can't cancel it' so I went. We've got the United lads, some of the City lads sat there. I think it was me, Crouchy [Peter Crouch], Harty [Joe Hart] - we all got up and did a song of Backstreet Boys. Looking back, I should have cancelled, but it was the friends and family who'd all booked the time off and got the babysitters and stuff.""
Wayne Rooney experienced celebrated and painful Manchester derby moments. City beat United 6-1 at Old Trafford in October 2011, a result that emphatically signalled City's rise and produced a demoralising second-half sequence. Rooney still held a scheduled birthday party that night, attended by family, friends and invited City players including Joe Hart and Gareth Barry, with guests and United teammates performing a Backstreet Boys song. Rooney scored a spectacular overhead kick in February 2011 to secure a late 2-1 derby win, a strike later awarded the Premier League Goal of the 20 Seasons in 2012.
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