Rashford reveals how his mom begged Man Utd to allow him join the academy despite being under age

Manchester United star, Marcus Rashford opened up on how the club allowed him to join the academy at a younger age than his peers.

 According to him, his mum explained her poverty situation to Manchester United administrator's which persuaded them to allow Rashford join. 

He revealed his mother, Melanie, had spoken to the Red Devils about their home situation and United allowed him to join up at age 11 rather than 12.

Following Rashford post on his Twitter, and directed at UK MP's, where he  urged UK politicians not to stop a food voucher scheme next month - which was set up to guarantee meals to children when schools were shut down in March- as he had issues with eating well while growing up due to his mother's financial situation.

Just so you know Rashfordhas helped charity FareShare reach a goal of supplying three million meals to vulnerable children in the United Kingdom .

 

 

"My mum was a single parent, she had five kids all living in the same house. The programme that I started at 11 years old, you're supposed to start it at 12 years old," he said.

"It basically gives you accommodation closer to the training facilities and a new school and she worked that hard to push it forward because she knew that was a step I needed to take.

 

"I needed to be eating the right food as I was growing, I needed to be close to my team-mates, my new school and my new school friends. She made that decision when I was 11 years old and United allowed it.

"That was the reason I ended up going at a younger age to the others, it was to help my mum with her situation and also get me out of the situation we were in. So there is always a big element of sacrifice to get to the top level and that's the one we had to make."

"My mum, she did the best she could, we used to go to a shop called Pound World and everything was under a pound," he added. "We would schedule out the week, we would get seven yoghurts and you could have one yoghurt a day and so on. She did the best she could within the circumstances.

"There are some families out there, like mine, that have four or five kids and it is literally impossible for her to take control of the situation.

"This is all going on at a time when kids should be concentrating on school work and stuff like that. It is crazy to think this is still going on in 2020 and it's something I don't believe should be happening."