Derby County player-coach Wayne Rooney has jumped to the defence of Manchester United captain Harry Maguire.

The England defender was found guilty of assaulting a police officer and attempted bribery in Mykonos.

The United captain is set for a full retrial in the Greek courts after his application for appeal against his guilty verdict was accepted.

"I think all I can say on that is Harry, the way I know him, that is completely out of character for him with everything that is reported to have happened," former United captain Rooney told talkSPORT.

"I just think as a nation, as people we are too quick to judge. I couldn't get my head around how he went to the court and he was found guilty and sentences in the space of one or two hours, I was like 'how that's happened?

"Harry is not that type of person at all. You've got to look at it, he's there with his girlfriend, his family and his friends and their girlfriends.

"So it is not a group of lads where sometimes things can happen. In my opinion, something has gone on that has maybe provoked [him]. It is just out of character, it is not him at all.

"Obviously he was found guilty and there's an appeal, so at the minute there's no charges now against his name until the next court date."