On fame, family values and the World Cup bubble FERGIE FIT TO HELP YOU, JOSE
emotional, really. My mum and dad fully deserve everything. I tell them all the time. I told them after the World Cup as well after we got knocked out against Croatia.
“They just said how sorry and how proud they are of me but it was a chance for me to thank them for getting me where I am.
“They worked so hard, having so many jobs when I was young. It was not easy and I thank them all the time. My dad was a tree surgeon, working in Scotland five days a week for weeks on end.
“He missed me and my three brothers but he was just trying to earn as much money as he could.
Costcutter
“But in dad’s eyes the most important thing was to get us to football training and put food on the table. My mum still works in Costcutter. It was difficult for them both, especially with four children, four boys as well.
“They have done themselves proud and we’ve told them.”
Trippier has the riches to reward his parents – but moving from their council estate is a no-no as far as his mum Eleanor is concerned.
“I have offered to move them but my mum literally walks a few yards and she’s in her shop,” added the former Burnley defender. “She’s happy. My nan lives around the corner and all of my mum’s aunties. We have all of our family round there.
“She’s happy and that’s the most important thing.
“The World Cup was an unbelievable experience, one I will never forget and something I can tell my children about one day.” SIR ALEX FERGUSON has been continuing his rehabilitation at his favourite bolthole on the French Riviera.
Friends say the legendary former United manager, who won 13 Premier League titles during his 27-year reign, is said to be well on the mend after undergoing surgery following a brain haemorrhage in May.
Doctors gave Fergie (below) the all-clear for a sunshine break after being delighted with his progress following the lifethreatening emergency.
Last month Ferguson spoke via video to publicly thank medics at the two hospitals where he was initially treated and wellwishers for their messages of support.
Restaurant
Ferguson had already been spotted out and about at his favourite restaurant near his Cheshire home with family and friends, and reports said he was in good spirits.
In the message, believed to have been recorded in the garden of his luxury home, Ferguson admitted he was looking forward to going back to Old Trafford to watch his beloved United in the near future.
What he will find is anyone’s guess.
For United are as far away from winning the league title as when he last paraded it around Old Trafford in 2013 having announced his retirement.
Jose Mourinho will certainly be glad Ferguson is back in good order again.
And the Portuguese might be tempted to ask the man he called The Boss for some much-needed advice.
During his epic time at United, Ferguson faced more moments of crisis than most managers can dream of.
Fergie quickly learned every defeat at United is seen as a disaster – even when you are winning titles.
His solution was simplicity itself. He slammed the trainingground doors at Carrington to the outside world and worked on getting the best out of his players.
The Scot was used to dealing with the occasional flash fire – but Mourinho has been engulfed by a fullon blaze.
Spats with Paul Pogba, Anthony Martial, an awkward transfer window with Ed Woodward and a shocking defeat at Brighton have left Mourinho looking like he is fighting for his career at Old Trafford.
Even this early in the season – and despite giving Mourinho a contract extension in January until 2020 – another gutless display and heavy defeat by Tottenham tomorrow will give Woodward and the Glazer family a decision to make.
If United plummet the same way Chelsea did in Mourinho’s final season at Stamford Bridge, Woodward will have to act.
He has assembled a list of potential replacements with former Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane high on the list.
Mauricio Pochettino would be difficult to prise from Spurs, but Ferguson rates the Argentinian highly and was even pictured with him leaving a top Mayfair restaurant two years ago.
Dumped
One of Mourinho’s arch enemies – Antonio Conte – is available after being dumped by Chelsea while former France and Paris Saint-germain boss Laurent Blanc has links to United, having played under Ferguson.
Woodward would also have to consider Atletico Madrid’s Diego Simeone and Juventus boss Max Allegri – because of their work in Spain and Italy.
An outsider could be another Portuguese manager – Monaco coach Leonardo Jardim, who has a reputation for developing young players and producing highenergy football.
Even if United beat Spurs, Mourinho is facing an uncertain future
in Manchester.