Guardian:
‘A force spokeswoman said: "We were informed that the complainant did not want to pursue the allegation. We took a retraction statement from him and officers will not be pursuing the matter any further."
‘Rooney had been in the bar with team-mates Rio Ferdinand, Wes Brown and Roy Carroll. Today a spokesman for Rooney said the allegations had been "a fabrication from start to finish".
‘He said: "We are entirely unsurprised that Mr Hanrahan has retracted his allegations. They were a fabrication from start to finish presumably timed to create a distraction in the run up to an important England game."’