My dad enrolled as an engineering graduate student in Villanova and went on to receive three patents in the 1970s for his work on air conditioning products.
The England striker was initially expected to be out until late November but his intensive conditioningon the problem at the Nike World Campus in Oregon appears to have reaped dividends.
Phelan did raise the possibility that Rooney could be back for the club's Premier League home match with Wigan on 21 November, if hisconditioning work away from the glare of the British media goes well.
One wonders how Doug Von Allmen, who began life in poverty, working as a window washer and factory grunt, became a man intolerant of any "creaking" onhis yacht, irritated by the slightest whooshing of the air-conditioning system and concerned with the placement of gold-plated toilet-paper dispensers.