{"id":681312,"date":"2026-07-09T00:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T00:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/681312\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T00:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T00:00:08","slug":"wales-legend-mark-hughes-carries-sons-coffin-as-he-pays-final-respects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/681312\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales legend Mark Hughes carries son&#8217;s coffin as he pays final respects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leading sports figures joined mourners for the funeral of football agent and former player Alex Hughes, following his death at the age of 38.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His father, Wales legend Mark Hughes, and other family members carried the coffin into the service at St Peter&#8217;s Church in Prestbury, Cheshire on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alex Hughes&#8217; wife Jess, whom he had known since school, was accompanied by their sons, Sebastian and Leonardo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson attended the funeral along with Bryan Robson and Ryan Giggs among others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hughes&#8217; father-in-law, David Pollock, gave a moving eulogy, explaining how Hughes was proud of his boys, who had begun pointing to the skies after scoring goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leading sports figures joined mourners for the funeral of football agent and former player Alex Hughes, following his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-681312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681312","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=681312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}