Tony Mowbray details emotional Mike Dodds conversation after Sunderland game against Birmingham City
Tony Mowbray has detailed an emotional conversation with Sunderland assistant head coach Mike Dodds following his bowel cancer diagnosis.
Mowbray was in charge of Birmingham City after his sacking by Sunderland last season and welcomed his former club to the Midlands for a clash in the Championship. The Blues won the game 2-1 which prompted the Black Cats’ board to sack Michael Beale just months after he had replaced Mowbray at the Academy of Light.
Just days later, however, Mowbray revealed the shocking news that he would have to temporarily stand down from his role at Birmingham City due to health issues, which were later detailed to be bowel cancer. Speaking to the BBC, Mowbray explained that he is now on the mend and detailed an emotional conversation with Sunderland staff member Dodds after the game between Birmingham and Sunderland at St Andrews last February.
“Gosh I remember getting emotional telling Doddsy,” Mowbray said. “He was asking how are you, gaffer all right everything good and I said oh no mate it’s not good and he said what do you mean it’s not good I said oh I’ve just been diagnosed with bowel cancer and I’m gonna have to leave but he got quite emotional as well, to be honest.
“It’s horrific really and that’s what I can say and yet your family get you through it’s the people who care and love you know get you through it my wife at a drop of a hat would drop everything and just drive me two and a half hours to Manchester because I needed to get to the and the doctors were there and the nurses were ready and everything was there for me but yeah it was tough.
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