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West Brom manager Tony Mowbray has revealed his children thought helium was going to dice erstwhile helium was battling bowel cancer.
Mowbray abruptly stepped down arsenic manager of Birmingham successful February past twelvemonth aft undergoing surgery. He had 15cm of his bowel removed during his treatment.
He took a impermanent permission of lack aft 8 games successful charge, earlier officially resigning from the relation successful May.
The 61-year-old, who has managed a big of English clubs, is present connected the roadworthy to betterment pursuing country and has opened up publically astir his struggles of the past 18 months.
His focus, helium revealed, was connected making definite his household were dealing with the concern well, going arsenic acold arsenic showing his woman however to usage their banking app.
But it was besides astir his children, who, Mowbray has revealed successful an interrogation with The Times, feared the worst.
Tony Mowbray has revealed his children were frightened helium 'wasn't going to live' during his conflict with bowel cancer
Mowbray underwent a pugnacious 18 months and had 15cm of his bowel removed during surgery
The West Brom brag was focused connected making definite his household - including woman Amber (pictured) - 'were OK'
'I had the speech with my household and you could spot they were frightened,' helium said. 'Was I frightened? My lone thoughts were for my family, my 3 children and my woman and making definite they were OK.
'I had to enactment everything successful bid and I tried to. My woman saw our banking app for the archetypal clip successful her life. It's small things similar that. She understood. This was superior stuff. I felt she needed to cognize wherever we had our money, whether it was ISAs oregon pensions and what was successful the bank.'
Speaking connected his diagnosis, which came aft helium collapsed erstwhile tryin to reply the door, helium added: 'My woman enactment maine successful the car and drove maine backmost to infirmary and they wanted to cognize wherefore I was collapsing and successful the information I was,' helium says. 'They rehydrated maine and enactment maine connected a drip overnight.
'I retrieve sitting determination successful furniture and my kids' eyes were watering up. They were frightened I wasn't going to live. How aged were they? They were 15, 17 and 19. I could spot the fearfulness successful their eyes.'
Mowbray is present regularly successful the gym, gathering his spot backmost up. He has enactment backmost connected two-and-a-half chromatic aft losing astir treble that during his treatment.
West Brom are seventh successful the Championship array with 7 games near of their play arsenic they people a instrumentality to the Premier League nether Mowbray.
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