{"id":7528,"date":"2013-05-13T16:50:19","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T11:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=7528"},"modified":"2013-05-13T16:50:19","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T11:50:19","slug":"i-quit-for-my-wife-after-tragedy-says-ferguson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=7528","title":{"rendered":"I quit for my wife after tragedy, says Ferguson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/\u0586\u0565\u0580\u0563\u0575\u0578\u0582\u057d\u0578\u0576.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7514\" alt=\"\u0586\u0565\u0580\u0563\u0575\u0578\u0582\u057d\u0578\u0576\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/\u0586\u0565\u0580\u0563\u0575\u0578\u0582\u057d\u0578\u0576.jpg\" width=\"460\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/\u0586\u0565\u0580\u0563\u0575\u0578\u0582\u057d\u0578\u0576.jpg 460w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/\u0586\u0565\u0580\u0563\u0575\u0578\u0582\u057d\u0578\u0576-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a>Alex Ferguson has revealed that loyalty to his wife, Cathy, was the key factor in his decision to retire from football management at the end of the current season.<\/p>\n<p>The 71-year-old Scot enjoyed an emotion-charged farewell in Manchester United\u2019s 2-1 victory over Swansea City at Old Trafford on Sunday, his last home game after more than 26 years in charge of the new English champions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAround last Christmas,\u201d said Ferguson, when asked when he had decided to bring an end to his reign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBasically, things changed when Cathy\u2019s sister died. She is isolated a lot now and I think a lot of the time, for 47 years, she has been the leader of the family, looked after our three sons and sacrificed herself for me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow she has the grandchildren, and they all dote on her, but now she has lost her best friend \u2014 her sister \u2014 so that was important.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it is also important to go out as a winner. That is really important at this club. It is all I ever wanted to do here \u2014 be a winner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; See more at: https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/i-quit-for-my-wife-after-tragedy-says-ferguson\/#sthash.tK4sioHI.dpuf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Ferguson has revealed that loyalty to his wife, Cathy, was the key factor in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}