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HAPPY Mondays singer Shaun Ryder missed Stone Roses bassist Gary “Mani” Mounfield’s funeral with pneumonia.

Shaun, 63, said he and Black Grape bandmate Paul Leveridge caught the lung condition as they were finishing a tour on December 20.

He told BBC Breakfast: “I got back the day before Mani’s funeral and collapsed, and so I couldn’t even go.

“In the end I got antibiotics . . .  that sorted me out. I’ve only been out of bed, what, four days?”

Shaun was on the breakfast show with Happy Mondays dancer Mark “Bez” Berry, who made Mani’s funeral at Manchester Cathedral on December 22.

Mani, who had emphysema, died at 63.

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Oasis star Liam Gallagher helped carry legendary bassist Gary’s coffin at his funeral – as a host of stars said their final goodbyes.

Sir David Beckham and Ian Brown also paid their respects to Stone Roses’ Mani, who died just two years after losing his wife, Imelda, to cancer.

The dad-of-two was last seen in public alongside Liam at the funeral of legendary boxer Ricky Hatton in October.

Just weeks later, the rocker’s family announced the sad news of his death on social media – sparking floods of tributes from across the globe.

Hundreds of locals in his hometown of Manchester were spotted lining the streets as Mani’s procession passed.

Rory McIlroy claims United States captain Keegan Bradley could have used his platform to rein in abusive crowd behaviour at last year’s Ryder Cup, but did not take the opportunity.

Europe defeated the US 15-13 at Bethpage Black to retain the trophy and become the first away team to win the event since 2012.

Yet they did so in the face of relentless heckling in New York, with Northern Ireland golfer McIlroy’s wife Erica hit by a drink thrown by an American fan and “horrific” abuse directed towards them both and their young daughter Poppy.

“We knew going to New York that we were going to get a lot of stick, a lot of abuse,” said McIlroy, while appearing on The Overlap., external

“Look, I don’t care if people are saying whatever they’re saying to me.”

McIlroy said he was able to brush off a Bethpage MC joining in with an expletive-led abusive chant about him, while she warmed up the crowd, saying that was “nothing compared to the other stuff we heard”.

“Erica, my wife, would say she’s a grown woman, she’s strong, she can handle that. But then when it starts to get into your family, I heard stuff about my daughter that I couldn’t even repeat here. It’s horrific,” McIlroy said.

The world number two added: “Keegan and I have talked about this. You have to play into the home-field advantage, absolutely.

“But during the competition on Friday night and Saturday night, after the stuff that we heard on the course, there was an opportunity for either Keegan or some of the team-mates to be like: ‘Let’s just calm down here. Let’s try to play this match in the right spirit.’

“Some of them did that, but obviously Keegan had the biggest platform of the week in being the captain. I feel like he could have said something on that Friday or Saturday night, and he didn’t.”