‘A Manchester lad’: Ricky united a city divided by football – BBC’s Hugh Ferrispublished at 13:12 BST<\/p>\n
13:12 BST<\/p>\n
Speaking to BBC News, BBC Sport Centre’s Hugh Ferris says Hatton was a sporting icon, not only in what he achieved, but for the city in which he lived, Manchester. <\/p>\n
Manchester, a city divided by its two football teams, United and City, was united by the boxer, Ferris explains. <\/p>\n
“He was able to unite a city in support of his efforts in the boxing ring.”<\/p>\n
However, he was an “absolute die hard blue” – also known as a fan of Manchester City. <\/p>\n
Hatton was also friends with the Gallagher brothers, otherwise known as Oasis, fellow Mancunian legends. <\/p>\n
Outside of the ring, “he was a Manchester lad” who went out with friends, Ferris continues.<\/p>\n
“Here in the city of Manchester, and beyond throughout the world, he was an incredibly popular man.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘A Manchester lad’: Ricky united a city divided by football – BBC’s Hugh Ferrispublished at 13:12 BST 13:12…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-143333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}