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Nathan Rooney's wedding day video of kickabout with his wife - the Liverpool defender Rhiannon Roberts - went viral... now the boss of Gibraltar side FCB Magpies is in the limelight as he seeks to take down Crusaders and set up a glamour tie with FC Basle

It's been a fairytale few months for Nathan Rooney. He has taken a one-time pub team from Gibraltar into Europe then got married to a Liverpool right-back. Come Thursday it could get even better.

Rooney is the former Blackburn Rovers and Crawley Town coach who is now managing FCB Magpies and, on Thursday night, they face Northern Ireland's Crusaders in the first leg of their Europa Conference League qualifier. The prize for the winners is a glamour tie with Swiss side FC Basle.

'This was the dream when I came here,' say the 32-year-old who only took over in January.