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John's Cup heroes have gone global

- BY TYRONE MARSHALL

JOHN ROONEY had just finished an answer, talking about how Macclesfield's FA Cup heroics have put the club on the world map, when the next hand went up in the bar at the Leasing. com Stadium.

It was a journalist from France’ daily sports newspaper LEquipe. It couldn't be any more on the nose.

The story of the rebirth of Macclesfield FC, how owner Rob Smethurst bought them on Rightmove after a four-day bender, and Wayne Rooney's brother pulled off the biggest giant-killing in Cup history, is pulling the world’s media into the Cheshire town 16 miles south of Manchester.