Few parents in world football have experienced a more colourful life than Claire Rowlands, the supportive mother-of-five who made 'everything possible' for one of the Premier League's best talents in Manchester City star Phil Foden.
From having rows with neighbours over her 'Disneyland-style' fireworks display to getting kicked out of a Welsh nightclub for flicking off a man's hat, she has regularly found herself in the public eye — but within her family she is the nurturing pillar of strength for Foden and his four siblings Callum, Kenzi, Lois and Avayah.
Rowlands, 44, disgracefully became the subject of vile chants from Manchester United fans during Sunday's limp 0-0 stalemate at Old Trafford, as Foden was targeted by sections of the home support who abhorrently labelled her a 's**g' before his substitution in the 58th minute.