{"id":118230,"date":"2025-11-02T20:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T20:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/118230\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T20:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T20:57:08","slug":"perfect-words-for-your-amazing-dad-david-beckham-left-in-awe-of-paul-scholes-daughter-as-she-posts-heartfelt-tribute-to-man-utd-legend-after-his-emotional-interview-about-autistic-son-aiden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/118230\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Perfect words for your amazing dad&#8217; &#8211; David Beckham left in awe of Paul Scholes&#8217; daughter as she posts heartfelt tribute to Man Utd legend after his emotional interview about autistic son Aiden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scholes also revealed he was once dropped by former United manager Sir Alex Ferguson as he attempted to deal with Aiden\u2019s diagnosis privately, having initially kept it a secret.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I never got a break from it, even when playing &#8211; it was very hard in those days,&#8221;\u00a0said the 50-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think they diagnosed it until he was two-and-a-half years old. But you knew early something was wrong, but then you get the diagnosis, and I&#8217;d never heard of it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I remember the first time after it, we were playing Derby away and I just didn&#8217;t want to be there.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I remember the manager dropped me the week after, and I hadn&#8217;t told anyone. I ended up telling them a few weeks later, as it was quite hard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even now, I don&#8217;t want sympathy or anything. I just thought, even if I did speak to someone about it, it&#8217;s not going to help Aiden.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The big concern now is, because you&#8217;re getting a bit older, what happens when you&#8217;re not here? That&#8217;s the thing that&#8217;s now on my mind all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scholes also revealed he was once dropped by former United manager Sir Alex Ferguson as he attempted to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,70918,5040,93,61,60,917,70917,1102],"class_list":["post-118230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-d-beckham","tag-england","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-manchester-united","tag-p-scholes","tag-premier-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}