{"id":190101,"date":"2025-10-10T09:16:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T09:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/190101\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T09:16:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T09:16:11","slug":"ricky-hatton-funeral-live-mourners-gather-as-procession-around-manchester-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/190101\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricky Hatton funeral live: Mourners gather as procession around Manchester begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flags of Hatton&#8217;s beloved Man City flying outside pubpublished at 09:45 BST<\/p>\n<p>09:45 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/b8c569ca-4d12-49b0-a028-ec782391d631.png.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Jonny Humphries<br \/>BBC News<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Manchester City flags in memory of Hatton are flying outside the pub where the funeral cortege will begin its journey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The procession is setting off from The Cheshire Cheese in Hyde at 09:45.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Manchester City flags with the name Ricky Hatton are flying outside a pub\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/dc079caf-a1fd-4acd-9aff-1788ef1f696a.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"2048\" height=\"1152\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Vanessa Stansfield, pictured right with friend Emily, has been selling blue flags all week with the proceeds being donated to the Men\u2019s Club mental health charity. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;He was a great boxer, icon, inspiration to so millions of people but to us he was just a local lad who had time for everyone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Vanessa Stansfield is standing next to her friend Emily outside the pub. She is wearing a blue T-shirt with a photograph of Ricky Hatton in the boxing ring\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/700377b7-58c1-4656-95c7-a92899809398.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1536\" height=\"864\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Phil Benson, pictured left with Kevin Burton, who works at the Cheshire Cheese pub, said Hatton always stayed &#8220;true to his roots&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As I was growing up &#8211; the same age as Ricky &#8211; he was my idol &#8211; proper boxer, proper lad, made it big and never changed himself,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s why everyone loved him. He was jus down to Earth&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added that he was &#8220;his favourite boxer of all time&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"This is Phil Benson (left) and Kevin Burton (right) from Rock Academy gym in Doncaster are pictured outside the pub\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/c8f60982-7f79-466b-af22-5c144d18f221.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1846\" height=\"1038\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flags of Hatton&#8217;s beloved Man City flying outside pubpublished at 09:45 BST 09:45 BST Jonny HumphriesBBC News Manchester&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-190101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}