{"id":437172,"date":"2025-09-19T23:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T23:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/437172\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T23:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T23:08:10","slug":"family-of-maddy-cusack-left-heartbroken-as-sheffield-united-refuse-to-retire-no-8-shirt-despite-her-tragic-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/437172\/","title":{"rendered":"Family of Maddy Cusack left &#8216;heartbroken&#8217; as Sheffield United refuse to retire No.8 shirt despite her tragic death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"article-teaser\" class=\"article_teaser__rjxUK\">The family of Maddy Cusack has been left &#8220;heartbroken&#8221; as Sheffield United have refused to retire the No.8 shirt despite her tragic death. Cusack, just 27, took her own life on September 20, 2023, a loss that shook English football. Her mother, Deborah, marked the heartbreaking anniversary with a powerful message through the Maddy Cusack Foundation, thanking fans and friends for their support while demanding the Blades show the ultimate sign of respect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The family of Maddy Cusack has been left &#8220;heartbroken&#8221; as Sheffield United have refused to retire the No.8&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,9030,393,4884,1620,4239,16,15,13582],"class_list":{"0":"post-437172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-championship","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-sheffield","13":"tag-sheffield-united","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-womens-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115233482733655668","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}