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      Man City ace Jack Grealish tells of his pride after sister Hollie bags first job as a waitress

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      JACK Grealish has spoken of his pride after his sister Hollie bagged her first job as a waitress.The Manchester City star, 28, posted a picture of the 20-year-old, who has cerebral palsy, working in a restaurant.Man City ace Jack Grealish has spoken of his pride after his sister Hollie bagged her first job as a waitressCredit: @jackgrealishJack posted a picture of Hollie, 20, who has cerebral palsy, working in a restaurant – accompanied by a sweet message telling her how proud he wasCredit: InstagramHe wrote, alongside heart emojis: “Go on Hols. First job . . . Birmingham’s best waitress. “Proud of you.”He has previously spoken of their close relationship and described her as his “best friend”.Hollie joined Jack last month to celebrate City’s Premier League title win.READ MORE ON JACK GREALISHWith his winners’ medal around his neck, Jack hugged and kissed her on the cheek.She put a picture of them together at the Etihad Stadium on Instagram and captioned it: “The Best.”Jack has previously talked about how Hollie was born three months premature, adding: “They said that she wouldn’t be able to talk, she wouldn’t be able to walk, and do a lot of stuff but here we are and she can do everything.”I’m so close with my little sister. I love her so much.” He has called Hollie his “inspiration” and his “hero”.Most read in FootballIt comes as Jack was yesterday told that he would not be part of the England squad for Euro 2024 in Germany.Southgate said: “I think the world of him as a kid.“It certainly doesn’t get any easier.” ‘You know what he’s done for me’ – Emotional Gareth Southgate reveals why he left Harry Maguire out of England squadWhat Southgate said about axed England stars

      WHAT Gareth Southgate said about his axed England stars after confirming his 26-man England squad for Euro 2024.
      Harry Maguire
      “The decision on Harry [Maguire] is totally about his physical condition and his recovery from the injury. There is no other reason as he is one of our strongest centre-backs.
      “Harry has made some progress, but it’s been complicated and we wouldn’t have had him in the group stages. There were too many hurdles to get through without being clear where we might get to.
      “Knowing we haven’t got a clean bill of health across the rest of the backline, we need players who are fit and ready to go from the start.
      “It was a really difficult call, you know how I feel about Harry, what he’s done for England and for me as a manager. ”
      Jack Grealish
      “I have just delivered a really difficult conversation to a lad who is devastated.
      “I think the world of him as a kid.“It certainly doesn’t get any easier.
      “You put yourself in the shoes of a player, a parent. You understand that for these players this is a devastating moment.
      “We knew we had a couple of really difficult days coming up.”
      James Maddison
      “Madders [Maddison] and Jack [Grealish] would have provided us with something different as well and they’ve been tough calls.
      “They’re calls we’ve gone over and over and over as a group of staff to try to be fair and to try to use the right rationale.
      “We back our decisions but we recognise we could have gone a different route. The boys are big characters, fabulous team-mates and great boys to work with.
      “It’s sad to have to deliver that news to them.”
      Jarrad Branthwaite
      “It’s a bit early for Jarrad [Branthwaite]. He has had a fabulous season, it was good to get him on the pitch the other night.
      “But of course, in an ideal world, you’d like that balance of left-footers. For him to be in ahead of the others, I don’t think it would have been the right call at this stage.”
      Jarell Quansah
      “Jarell Quansah has stayed with us. He’s not had the experience of an England international at Wembley. It’ll be great for him to be us for the game.
      “Hopefully we’re not needing to call anyone else in.” More

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      Major Euro 2024 boost for England as they kick hosts Germany out of hotel with high end restaurant & THREE golf courses

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      THE England squad are all set to check inn to their fabulous Euro 2024 base — after Germany’s players got kicked out.The host’s flags have been taken down from the bar, with the Three Lions crest ready to greet our stars on Monday.England have secured a luxury hotel base for Euro 2024 – ahead of hosts GermanyCredit: Darren FletcherSun mascot Harry Mane was given a tour of the facilitiesCredit: Darren FletcherA bed of flowers formed in the flags of England and Germany were planted in the sumptuous gardensSecuring the top quality training base is great news for Harry Kane and coCredit: GettyGermany had eyed up the swish Weimarer Land Golf Hotel and Spa in central Germany as their tournament HQ and even set up a training camp there last month.But they were forced to leave to please their kit sponsors Adidas — and the FA seized the best base of any team. The staff were yesterday preparing to give Gareth Southgate’s boys a warm welcome in Blankenhain, with the hotel’s boss tipping them to win the tournament.Owner Matthias Grafe told The Sun: “The German team wanted to be based at my hotel but they have been obliged to work with their sponsors so we’re delighted to welcome England instead.READ MORE EURO 2024“I have always said I’m only interested in having one team here — the team that wins the Euros — and I believe that team will be England.”The FA snapped up the 350-acre resort — including a Wembley-quality training pitch and three golf courses — in a £800,000 deal in November.Hotel workers and FA officials were busily completing its new England look yesterday, as The Sun’s footie mascot Harry Mane was given a tour of the roarsome facilities.Players will stay in timber-clad rooms boasting pine forest views, and can enjoy a spa, play golf and swim indoors and out.Most read in FootballPictures of German stars such as Thomas Muller have all been replaced with those of English heroes including Harry Kane and Jude Bellingham.German signs were removed from the media centre and training pitch, with an “England” banner now up.Jack Wilshere, Gordon Strachan and Jurgen Klinsmann answer quickfire questions ahead of Euro 2024The red, black and gold German flag colours and “Deutschland” motifs which had been emblazoned throughout the hotel bar have also been taken down.A bed of flowers formed in the flags of England and Germany were planted in the sumptuous gardens.Meanwhile, Germany have switched to a HQ in Herzogenaurach in southern Germany — the Bavarian home town of kit maker Adidas.England play their first game against Serbia next Sunday.The 350-acre resort includes a Wembley-quality training pitchCredit: German flags at the hotel have been removed ahead of England’s arrivalCredit: Darren FletcherThomas Muller and the German squad have had to find a new training baseCredit: Reuters More

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      England ace Phil Foden poses with fish he caught with brother on pre-Euro holiday with family

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      ENGLAND ace Phil Foden landed the catch of the day on a pre-Euros break – while fishing with his kids on a yacht in MarbellaManchester City star Phil, 24, has been chilling out with brother Logan before linking up with Gareth Southgate’s squad to begin final preparations for the soccer showdown in Germany.It’s a case of Fillet Foden as ace Phil poses with brother Logan after reeling in this fish on a family break in MarbellaCredit: InstagramPhil has now returned to the UK and was seen at Tottenham Hotspur’s training ground yesterday with team-mate Kyle Walker ahead of Friday’s friendly against Iceland at WembleyCredit: GettyAnd the midfield kingpin will be hoping to net the big one in Germany after plucking three tiddlers from the sea in the Spanish jet set resort.Phil – who won the Premiership and Player of the Year award after a brilliant season – delighted his kids Ronnie, five and True, three.His pregnant girlfriend Rebecca Cooke watched the fun from the back of the family’s rented yacht – which never moved from its mooring as the family relaxed in the sunshine.Brit Isaac Rayton saw the £200,000-a-week star spot shoals of fish as his family took a seaside stroll – before hiring the luxury speedboat to provide his fishing pitch.READ MORE ON EURO 2024Isaac, 18, from Preston, Lancs said: “Phil walked past and he and his son were staring and pointing at the fish in the water – so he rented a boat.“I don’t think they went anywhere on it but he was fishing on it and I managed to film the moment he caught one of them but I think he caught three in total.“There were so many people surrounding the boat.”“All these people are standing round and the guy is at the front fishing.Most read in FootballThat will win us the Euros.”Foden is being rested by Gareth Southgate but is expected to star at Euro 24, which kicks off in Berlin on Friday June 14.The midfield maestro – who scored 24 times for City this season – will rejoin the Three Lions squad in time for tomorrow’s Wembley send-off friendly against Iceland.England ace Phil Foden has been dubbed “Fodenballs” by his mates More

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      England star Jill Scott pays herself £350,000 on the back of Euros and I’m A Celeb success

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      ENGLAND footie hero Jill Scott has paid herself a £350,000 dividend on the back of her Euros and I’m A Celeb success.The hugely popular former Lioness, 37, has enjoyed a bumper financial period, latest accounts show.Former Lionesses ace Jill Scott has paid herself a £350,000 dividend on the back of her Euros and I’m A Celeb successCredit: RexJill helped England triumph at Euro 2022 before retiring.She was crowned jungle queen on ITV’s I’m A Celebrity a few months later.As her earnings rocketed, she treated herself to a six- figure payout in two chunks — her first worth £50,000 before a larger sum of £300,000.Equity in her company — Jill Scott 8 Limited — shot up from £5,213 to £477,479 for the year ending May 31, 2023.READ MORE FOOTBALL NEWSSunderland-born Jill, who won 161 caps for England, is set for further bumper pay days as a football pundit and captain on Sky’s A League of Their Own.She also features on the Stick To Football podcast with Gary Neville, Roy Keane and Ian Wright.And Jill runs a ­successful coffee shop Boxx2Boxx in Manchester, with her ­fiancée Shelly Unitt.In a stellar 18-year career with Everton and Manchester City, she won four FA Cups, four league cups and a WSL title before being inducted into the WSL Hall of Fame.Most read in FootballLast year Jill opened up on her passion for coaching and hailed Pep Guardiola’s emotional intelligence.In April 2023, the retired City and Lionesses ace was set to coach girls and boys coming up through the ranks at Manchester City. Jill Scott stunned as Gary Neville aims brutal dig at old pal Rio Ferdinand More

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      Harry Kane and Jude Bellingham head up list of six stars who could be forced to SNUB England duty as shock request made

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      ENGLAND stars face being forced to pick between club or country in the escalating row over Fifa’s controversial new £600million tournament.SunSport revealed last week the growing anger from global league bosses and player unions over next summer’s planned 32-team Club World Cup in the USA.Harry Kane may be forced to pick between England duty and playing in the Club World CupCredit: GettyIt comes with league chiefs wanting to bring it forward by two weeks to ensure a proper breakCredit: GettyAnd it is set to give the England manager a major headacheCredit: GettyNow top league chiefs want it brought forward two weeks in June to ensure a proper summer break — but that would clash with Fifa World Cup qualifiers.So England skipper Harry Kane and Three Lions team-mates Jude Bellingham, Phil Foden, Cole Palmer, Kyle Walker, John Stones and Jack Grealish would have to choose who to play for.PFA chief Maheta Molango says Premier League players are ready to “strike” if they are forced to take part in the revamped club competition against their will.While lawyers representing the World Leagues Association and international players’ union FifPro are drafting legal proceedings to stop the event taking place as planned from June 15 to July 13.READ MORE IN FOOTBALLThe leagues have now contacted Fifa to suggest playing the four-week tournament — set to feature Manchester City, Chelsea, Kane’s Bayern Munich and Bellingham’s Real Madrid — from June 1 to June 29.That would allow players a proper summer break ahead of the 2025-26 campaign. One leagues source insisted: “This is the only acceptable solution.Who is in the Club World Cup?There are 32 teams who will qualify for the tournament from around the world, 12 of which will come from Europe.
      Four are selected via the Uefa pathway of winning the Champions League, while the other eight are picked via the ranking pathway.
      Here are the European teams who have qualified:

      Chelsea
      Man City
      Real Madrid
      Bayern Munich
      Paris Saint-Germain
      Inter Milan
      Porto
      Benfica
      Borussia Dortmund
      Juventus
      Atletico Madrid
      RB Salzburg

      “Now it’s up to Fifa to make a decision. If they do what we ask it will be for the players to decide who they play for.“We have told Fifa they have already taken the first two weeks of June for international football, so that should be part of the window for the Club World Cup, not in addition to it.Most read in FootballCASINO SPECIAL – BEST CASINO WELCOME OFFERS“It is a fact that the 2025-26 season is going to be even more condensed than normal.“Because it has to end earlier, in mid-May, to allow players preparation time for the biggest and longest World Cup ever.”Inside England’s stunning five-star Euro 2024 base with robot waiters that will cost £800,000Prem chief executive Richard Masters is already making contingency plans. They could see City and Chelsea MISS the start of the 2025-26 season if they go deep into the tournament, which launched as an eight-team winter event in 2000.FifPro and the PFA say that stars need a minimum three-week break written into all pro deals.Asked if strike action was a possibility, PFA boss Molango said: “We have reached that point.“I have gone to dressing rooms and players have told me, ‘I’m not having it, we may as well strike’.”Arsenal’s ex-head of elite performance Darren Burgess warned: “With the Club World Cup and internationals, Chelsea and City could play 86 games next season.”PLAY DREAM TEAM EUROS NOW!The best fantasy football game for this summer’s tournament.
      PFA chief Maheta Molango has warned Prem clubs are ready to ‘strike’ over the new tournamentCredit: PA More

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      Joy for Euro2024 England fans after Germans build ‘beer super highway’ to keep booze flowing in stadium

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      THE beer will be flowing long and smooth for England supporters at their opening Euros tie — in pipes three miles long.The high-tech German stadium at Gelsenkirchen has a cellar which is linked to taps by an ingenious “beer superhighway” rather than kegs.High-tech German stadium at Gelsenkirchen has installed a ‘beer superhighway’ with 3-mile beer pipes ahead of England’s clash against SerbiaCredit: GettyEngland fans will watch Harry Kane and the lads’ first match on June 16Credit: GettyIt accelerates the supply of the 50,000-plus litres of lager expected to be sold during the Serbia clash on June 16. And many of the 62,000 fans at the Veltins-Arena will be extra-thirsty as there are only two pubs within a 30-minute walk.Gary Davies, 50, from Preston, will be there to cheer on skipper Harry Kane and the lads, and his mouth is already watering. He said: “The beer pipeline is German engineering at its finest — and their beer’s not bad either.READ MORE ON EUROS“There’ll be no better way to watch our boys than with a perfectly chilled pilsner in my hand.”The ground is named after ­German brewer Veltins but has had to change its name for the Euros to the AufSchalke to avoid upsetting the tournament’s beer sponsor Bitburger.Officials wanted to ban booze for the Serbia clash but police said: “It has now been agreed beer will be offered in the stadium.”England played there in the 2006 World Cup — getting knocked out in the quarter-finals on penalties by Portugal after Wayne Rooney got sent off.Most read in Euro 2024How hosts Germany look to return to their best for Euro 2024 More

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      ‘We all want to play’ – Top six in revolt after Premier League comes out against controversial £600m new tournament

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      ENGLAND’S Big Six are unhappy with Premier League chief Richard Masters opposing Fifa’s expanded Club World Cup.Masters has backed the PFA’s threat to strike in protest at adding games to a congested calendar.The Premier League Big Six have been left unhappy with opposition to the expanded Club World CupCredit: GettyBut the Prem’s biggest clubs are desperate for a slice of up to £600million prize money plus lucrative TV and sponsorship deals.Chelsea and Manchester City qualified for next year’s inaugural 32-team tournament.But a senior source at one of the Big Six clubs said: “We all want to play in the Club World Cup and by publicly opposing it Richard is not representing our interests.“Only two teams have qualified for next year so talk of disrupting the league and player burnout is exaggerated.”READ MORE IN FOOTBALLOther European clubs in the tournament include Bayern Munich, Real Madrid, Paris Saint-Germain, Juventus, AC Milan, Inter Milan, Benfica, Porto, Atletico Madrid and RB Salzburg.SunSport exclusively revealed the expanded tournament has triggered fears Fifa may look to reduce team in the top flight of football from 20 to 18 to counter an increased calendar.It comes as a another blow against the Premier League’s authority following unprecedented legal action taken by Man City revealed on Tuesday.City’s actions threaten to ignite a Premier League “civil war”.Most read in FootballCASINO SPECIAL – BEST CASINO WELCOME OFFERSThey are claiming the related party rules – affecting companies linked to a club’s owners – are “unlawful” and will demand damages from the Prem if they are successful at the anticipated two-week arbitration hearing starting on Monday.But the Etihad club are also arguing the entire fabric of the Prem rulebook – where any rule change requires a two thirds majority in favour of a proposal – should be torn up.Premier League sides deducted points and others at riskDocuments lodged ahead of the hearing say City believe the rule change – which mandates that all related party deals must pass a “fair market value” test – was specifically designed to “discriminate against Gulf owners”.That is because the rules were first brought in as a direct response to the Saudi-backed takeover of Newcastle in 2021.City’s stance is that sponsors linked to club owners should have the right to determine how much they want to pay, irrespective of any independent valuation. Another part of the heavyweight 165-page document filed by the club, City also argue the two thirds majority rule – which has been in place since the establishment of the Prem three decades ago – represents the “tyranny of the majority”.City suggest the Prem was remiss in not applying restrictions when other clubs – specifically Manchester United – were able to take advantage of their financial superiority in the first 15 years of the League’s existence and that doing so now is a further form of discrimination.If City win and then have their damages claim assessed, it could see the bill for the rest of the Prem skyrocket as all such outgoings are detracted from the League’s TV and sponsorship pot to be shared out between the 20 clubs. More

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      Man United fan’s club-themed Game Boy is valued at £30k — after Sir Alex Ferguson signed it

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      A MAN United fan’s club-themed Game Boy is valued at £30,000 — after he got Sir Alex Ferguson to sign the packaging.Ali Ahmed’s parents bought it in 1996, when he was three, and kept it in mint condition as a future collector’s item.A Manchester United fan’s club-themed Game Boy is valued at £30,000Credit: SuppliedAli Ahmed got the tech signed by Sir Alex Ferguson and also got a selfie with the former Man U bossCredit: SuppliedHe made it his mission to get the legendary United boss’s name on it — and pounced when Sir Alex visited the pharmacy he works at in January.Ali said: “I can’t believe it. It’s like a dream come true.“I only had the idea to try and get it signed a few months ago when another Game Boy collector joked about it online.“I thought it was an impossible task but somehow had faith I could one day achieve it.READ MORE ON MAN UNITED“Fast-forward three weeks later and who do I see walking past my workplace – Sir Alex Ferguson himself!“It was a surreal moment. I ran over and told him it was an absolute honour to meet him.“He was so nice and agreed to sign the Game Boy, and even posed for a selfie.“He said ‘it’s nice to meet you, mate. See you around’.Most read in Football“I get goosebumps just thinking about it.”He has had an offer of £30,000 from Japan for the Nintendo console, which cost £60.Man Utd coach reveals why Jadon Sancho refused to apologise to Ten Hag before exile that sparked Dortmund transferBut Ali said: “I’m keeping it, it’s like the Holy Grail of my game collection.”Ali, who also has a £40,000 collection of around 1,000 games, was flooded with support from United fans when he posted his achievement on a Game Boy collector’s page. More