Man utd’s Ella Toone honors after her father died of cancer – “I wanted to write this, for everyone who grieved and felt” | Football news
Manchester United and the English Ella Tone midfielder wrote about her sadness as she paid tribute to her father, who died in September last year.
Nick Toone died three days less than his 60th birthday, after being diagnosed with prostate cancer the day after watching Ella achieved the results in the Euro 2022 final, the match in which England beat Germany 2-1 at Wembley.
Writing for TribuneToone, 25, said that she was still trying to process her feelings because it came as a shock, largely because her father did not explain how ill he was to the end.
“When he passed, it was a big shock, even to some people closest to him, because no one barely knew he was sick,” Toone wrote. “People ask me now, ‘Why didn’t you tell us? “And I, I didn’t even know.
“For the past few months, I have been trying to understand it all, trying to remove it. She’s still raw. I still feel the pain digging, the feeling that he is gone here.
“Even now, sometimes I think it will come back, as if it were right in another room and waiting for me to come around the corner so he could get a joke or some joke … He was always at the end.”
Toeone paid tribute to her father in her career, from the transmission of her first practices and, at the age of six, promising her 10 pounds for every goal she scored for the team Astley and Tyldesley Girls in Velika Manchester – a pledge that cost him £ 100 in his the first game.
Toona recalled that her parents would travel home and went to watch all her games as a professional, then watched the footage at home again before Dad called her to talk them.
Toone said her first mark was that something was wrong because it looked bad after the introductory Euro 1-0 match over Austria at Old Trafford, and then missed the match against Norway playing in Brighton.
But both parents continued to say to her that her father simply “felt too good”, and she got a fuller picture only after Manchester United 4-0 FA Cup last May last May, the match in which Toone scored to score Toone opener. It was the first time cancer was mentioned.
“I’m still processing,” Toone added. “This is my first attempt to really talk about it. As my dad said, Toones is not great in feelings. But I wanted to write this for everyone who grieves and feels alone.”
