{"id":385931,"date":"2026-01-23T11:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T11:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/385931\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T11:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T11:04:07","slug":"aston-villa-unai-emery-says-he-pushed-youri-tielemans-because-hes-my-son-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/385931\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Villa: Unai Emery says he pushed Youri Tielemans because &#8216;he&#8217;s my son&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It might be innocent, but I don&#8217;t like that,&#8221; former Villa defender Joleon Lescott said on TNT Sports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Regardless of what it was for, if it was the other way around and the player refused to shake his manager&#8217;s hand, there would be uproar, and his mentality and professionalism would be questioned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s more innocent than it looks, but I don&#8217;t like the look of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Emery, who has won the Europa League a record four times as a manager, was managing his 100th game in the competition and said he is &#8220;dreaming&#8221; of a fifth title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;It might be innocent, but I don&#8217;t like that,&#8221; former Villa defender Joleon Lescott said on TNT Sports.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-385931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","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\/385931","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=385931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}