Published 18:54 IST, November 20th 2019
Mauricio Pochettino wins hearts on Twitter courtesy emotional message from Ex-TV presenter
Simon Thomas took Twitter to show his support to Pochettino and stated that he is a class manager and even a better man for his support in difficult times.
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Former Sky Sports presenter Simon Thomas revealed on Wednesday, vember 20, that sacked Tottenham Hotspur manr Mauricio Pochetti penned him a personal mess when reporter's wife passed away. Thomas took to Twitter to say that Pochetti was only manr in Premier League, who reached out to him after his wife died of an aggressive form of blood cancer two years ago.
Simon Thomas and Gemma got married back in 2005 and ir relation went on for 12 years before devastating incident took place. Thomas took Twitter to show his support towards Pochetti and stated that latter is a class manr and even a better man. Many or netizens joined in to share Pochetti's moments where he was very kind to m. One of tweets re ‘Same with my d, he wrote to him when he was diagsed with cancer. Lovely man.’
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Spurs recently parted ways with Pochetti after five-and-a-half-years and it was a shocker for many fans and or celebrities. In fact, former NBA legend Steve Nash took to Twitter to express his disappointment about sacking of manr as well.
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Simon Thomas' new book
Simon Thomas has also written a book about his experience while dealing with sdened event in his life. book is named 'Love, Interrupted: Navigating Grief One Day At A Time', in which he expresses amount of guilt he went through for t insisting his wife to take preventative measures during her illness. One of paragraphs from his book re: ‘In her final week, she went to GP twice, but each time was sent home without even a blood test. Whenever I relive that time in my mind, guilt is always re, nagging away at me,’ “Why hell didn’t you do something? Why didn’t you pick her up, carry her to car and take her straight to hospital before it got so b?”.’
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18:40 IST, November 20th 2019