{"id":464995,"date":"2023-10-06T12:03:48","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T16:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=464995"},"modified":"2023-10-06T12:03:48","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T16:03:48","slug":"sir-alex-fergusons-wife-dies-aged-84","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/sir-alex-fergusons-wife-dies-aged-84\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Alex Ferguson&#8217;s wife dies aged 84"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lady Cathy Ferguson, the wife of the former Red Devils head coach Sir Alex Ferguson, has died aged 84.<\/p>\n<p>The couple married in 1966, spending 57 years together, and had 3 sons, including Peterborough head coach Darren Ferguson.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are deeply saddened to share of the passing yesterday of Lady Cathy Ferguson,&#8221; an announcement from Ferguson&#8217;s family shared.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The family asks for privacy during that period.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Without Lady Cathy Ferguson, there would be no Sir Alex Ferguson, and consequently, no legacy of Manchester United.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Alex\u2019s pillar \u2764\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CTKddwHrfs\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/CTKddwHrfs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 centredevils. (@centredevils) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/centredevils\/status\/1710300844506091664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Premier League side from Old Trafford also wrote a statement: &#8220;Everyone at our club sends our heartfelt condolences to Sir Alex Ferguson and his family on the passing of Lady Cathy, a beloved wife, mother, sister, grandmother and great-grandmother, and a person that was always with Alex during his phenomenal career.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The couple met before Ferguson became a manager, as both worked at a typewriter factory during that time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lady Cathy Ferguson, the wife of the former Red Devils head coach Sir Alex Ferguson, has died aged 84. The couple married in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":464996,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16789,17317,18490],"news_category":[136,14235,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[21678,17559,17886,21130],"acf":{"announce":"The legendary Manchester United manager's wife died yesterday.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/464995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464995"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/464995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464999,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/464995\/revisions\/464999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464995"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=464995"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=464995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}