Bromance the Wheel deal for Tim Wheeler and Martin O’Neill

Tim Wheeler and his partner Julia Restoin Roitfeld. (Photo by Dave Benett/Getty Images for The National Gallery)

David O'Dornan

It's not the bromance we would ever have imagined — rock star Tim Wheeler from Ash and footie boss Martin O’Neill

But the pair struck up a friendship that saw Tim regularly sticking the former Ireland manager’s daughter on his band’s guestlist.