KIERAN I owe my mum and dad everything. I did offer to buy them a new house but they don’t want to leave their council estate
MAN UTD TOTTENHAM
KIERAN TRIPPIER lived the World Cup dream in Russia’s flashy stadiums – but the reality hit home shopping in Marks and Spencer with his family.
While every high street in England went nuts when Gareth Southgate’s stars played their way to the semi-finals, Tottenham star Trippier admits he was oblivious to the storm being whipped up back home by the Three Lions.
And it took a shopping trip to M&S and an emotional visit to see his mum and dad on the Bury council estate where he grew up that brought it all home to Trippier.
The right-back is set for another big-stage battle against Manchester United at Old Trafford today. But he admits it was only when he’d returned from the World Cup that he began to process the enormity of what happened in Russia – and it has blown him away.
“I was in M&S with my wife the other day. My missus wanted something. I can’t remember what – I was too busy chasing after my little boy. But people were coming up to me. Before the World Cup they weren’t doing that. It’s a World Cup, it’s global, everybody’s watching and young kids and stuff.
“We were in our little bubble when we were in Russia and you see stuff on social media.
“Sometimes it hit me as well. I’d suddenly think, ‘I’m at a World Cup’. Sometimes you forget that.
“You are working out there and then when you get your free time you think to yourself, ‘Wow, I’m in a semi-final of the World Cup’. Since I have come back I’ve had quite a lot of people, even back home off my mum and dad’s council estate, emotional about it.
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“I feel this team and the fans have come back together in a way.
“It makes me emotional, too. From very young, seeing my dad Chris, a Manchester United fan, a mad England supporter, when they are playing and watching him and his face when they are losing.
“For me playing in a World Cup for England and just thinking about it. I can remember when we played France, my debut, and all I could think about was my mum and dad in the crowd.
“I remembered how hard they had worked for all those years to get me to where I am now. It is