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Lucky mum finds Man Utd ace’s lost dogs and gets tour of club’s training ground in return

A MUM got a tour of Manchester United’s training ground for finding Alejandro Garnacho’s dogs.

United supporter Leah Smith, 26, and her children also got matchday tickets from the grateful Argentina international.

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Manchester United supporter Leah Smith, 26, and her children got a training ground tour and matchday tickets from grateful Argentina international Alejandro Garnacho
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Man United ace Garnacho is now happily reunited with his two dogs
Two bulldog puppies sleeping in a dog bed.
Garnacho’s two dogs
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Leah was driving with daughter Eliza, ten, when she saw two mutts on the loose near the star’s mansion.

She managed to get them in her car and recognised them from pics the winger posted on social media.

Leah then drove to United’s Carrington training ground where they let her and her daughter inside to watch the first team going through their paces.

An assistant told them the dogs were indeed Freko and Burrows, who live with the star, his partner Eva and their one-year-old son Enzo in Bowdon, Gtr Manchester.

Leah told The Sun: “Once they confirmed the dogs belonged to Garna, they politely asked if I could take them back to his home, which I did. His partner, Eva, was waiting and was very grateful.”

The following day the couple phoned Leah to thank her — and gave her tickets in the players’ family area at Old Trafford for their Premier League game against Southampton.

Leah, Eliza and her brother Jenson, seven, saw Prem strugglers United win 3-1 on January 16.

Leah said: “My children will never forget this day. Thank you Garna & Eva.”

Leah, who lives five minutes from Garnacho’s home, has since bumped into the footy ace while he was walking his dogs.

Fans praised Garnacho, 20, for his generous response but one joked: “Nobody should be made to sit and watch a United game.”

Garnacho joined United’s academy in 2020 from Spanish club Atletico Madrid and made his first-team debut in 2022.

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Delivery firm Evri reveals staggering number of packages that will be lost or stolen this year

PARCEL giant Evri admits it will lose eight million packages this year — 22,000 a day.

The delivery company, which estimates it will handle 800million parcels in 2025, predicts it will lose track of one per cent of them.

That equates to 153,846 lost parcels every week. Some will eventually reach their destination after a delay.

But others will not arrive at all thanks to being damaged or stolen. Evri last year delivered more than 730million parcels.

Thanks to an investment boost of £32million in operations and customer services, it claims to have a 99 per cent success rate.

Evri counts late or lost parcels under the same category — making up the one per cent.

The scale-up saw the firm deal with 12million customers per week last year.

And more than 7.3million parcels a year did not reach their destination on time or at all in 2024 — 20,000 a day.

Evri delivers 4,000 parcels to UK households every minute during peak delivery periods.

Now some are questioning whether the sudden scale-up has impacted on customer service.

Professor David Edmundson-Bird, of Manchester Metropolitan University, said: “When businesses expand too quickly without proper infrastructure and planning, customer service often becomes a significant casualty of growth.”

Evri said its couriers are rated 4.7 out of five by customers and it is “on track” to handle 800million parcels this financial year — with more than 99 per cent successfully delivered on time.

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