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      Leicester City furious as drones were used to spy on training sessions ahead of Premier League clash

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      LEICESTER City chiefs were left ­furious after drones were used to spy on first-team training sessions days before a Premier League clash.Camera-bearing devices were flown over top players including England star James Maddison and manager Brendan Rodgers as they worked on secret drills this week.
      Leicester City chiefs were left ­furious after drones were used to spy on first-team training sessions – pictured England star James MaddisonCredit: Getty
      Camera-bearing devices were flown over top playersCredit: Getty – Contributor
      Manager Brendan Rodgers was also seen being spied on by the devicesCredit: Getty
      Security guards at the club, who play Brighton & Hove Albion tomorrow, confronted the drone operator outside the club’s training base.
      He told them he was entitled to fly them above the facility from outside the perimeter.
      Footage later emerged online of the club’s security boss threatening to call cops and clips of the players training and planning set-pieces.
      A source said: “The man was insistent he wouldn’t leave.
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      “He filmed drills which are supposed to be kept confidential.
      “They’re a key part of team tactics and opponents finding out about them before a game would be a huge problem.
      “After the session the squad discussed it.
      “We’ve since been told the club are taking it further as similar things have happened before and to rivals.
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      “Some footage has already been on YouTube and TikTok. Who knows where else it goes?”
      Former Leeds United manager Marcelo Bielsa admitted sending a club employee to spy on Derby County in training before a Championship match in 2019.
      The club was fined £200,000 by the English Football League who said the move was unsporting but not illegal.
      The EFL introduced a law forbidding viewing opponents’ training sessions in the 72 hours before a match. More

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      Match of the Day prankster Dan Jarvis who tricked Gary Lineker with porn noise reveals how he did it

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      SEX noise prankster Daniel “Jarvo” Jarvis told how he beat security by marching into a football stadium with TV crew — and even helped himself to beers in a hospitality box.He and a pal later activated a £20 phone — one of the world’s loudest — to pump moans around the live Match of the Day studio.
      Notorious UK prankster Dan Jarvis was behind the Match Of The Day stuntCredit: Dan Charity
      Gary Lineker was in stitches at the moaning noises started playing in the backgroundCredit: BBC
      The stunt had BBC host Gary Lineker in stitches and stunned millions watching Tuesday’s Wolves v Liverpool FA Cup replay.
      YouTuber Jarvo, 30, wore black jeans and coat to blend in as he and the pal followed a TV crew into Wolves’s Molineux stadium a day before kick-off, nodding at security who let them pass unchecked.
      The pair used double-sided tape to stick the gold Yepen mobile to a 7ft wall on set, and changed the ringtone to the raunchy soundtrack.
      Jarvo told The Sun: “These things are all about confidence.“We got in because we made it look like we were meant to be there, so no one bats an eyelid.
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      “If you hesitate, then you’ll get asked questions. But people from Wolves thought we were with the TV, and vice versa.
      “TV crews don’t dress particularly smartly so I fitted right in. There were about four staff working in the studio. We tried not to speak to them much, just saying ‘How are you?’
      “Our plan was to strap it under a chair or the table, but they might’ve got suspicious if we started moving stuff around.
      “So we strapped it to the top of the wall and because of the colour no one could see it. We had a cheers with the beers afterwards then it was a waiting game, hoping no one had found the phone.”
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      A YouTube video posted during Tuesday’s match showed Jarvo call the phone to trigger the X-rated noise.
      He added: “I was at my cousin’s and couldn’t believe it worked. It was hilarious. We’ve tried this before and it didn’t work. But this must’ve been the magic of the FA Cup.”
      Jarvo and his mate spent 90 minutes inside Molineux. They filmed a jokey interview in the mix zone and posed in the dugouts.
      A YouTube video posted during Tuesday’s match showed Jarvo call the phone to trigger the X-rated noiseCredit: Ruckas
      Pal of Jarvo’s recording of BBC man scrambling to find noise source behind Ince and Lineker
      Gary Lineker tweeted exactly where the noise was coming fromCredit: @GaryLineker
      Jarvo, known as Jarvo69 online, added: “Staff didn’t say anything. I was tempted to jump in the home changing room ice bath but didn’t have a towel. I also used the toilet in the away dressing room, which is terrible — it’s like a PE changing room from the ’90s. After we planted the phone, we had a beer and got out.”
      Jarvo rang the phone at 1am on Tuesday to check it had not been found. He then buzzed it around 12 times from a burner device after the BBC went live at 7.30pm.
      The noise drowned out Lineker as he cut to the commentary team.
      He could barely be heard saying: “It is toasty in this studio. I am not sure if someone is sending something on somebody’s phone.”
      Jarvo streamed his calls, cracking up with laughter while ringing his mate who was inside Molineux recording the studio reaction.
      It showed pundit Paul Ince pointing to the noise’s source, while crew searched for it to no avail.
      Jarvo, of Gravesend, Kent, said: “There is a short delay with the TV so I was worried it didn’t work, but the camera went back to Lineker at the perfect time.
      “Those situations are so funny because no one has been in it before. You could see they were panicking but Lineker is such a pro and handled it really well. Everyone seems to have loved it. I feel like we’ve cheered up the nation a bit at a bad time.”
      Jarvo tried to prank BT Sport’s coverage of Fulham v Tottenham in 2021 but was let down by that phone’s sound quality.
      The incident also sparked a police alert.
      Daniel ‘Jarvo’ Jarvis told how he beat security by marching into a football stadium with TV crewCredit: Dan Charity
      This time he bought five phones after searching for the world’s loudest mobiles.
      Man Utd fan Jarvo said: “This Yepen worked a treat. We’ve still got a few so TV and the Premier League better watch out!”
      Police have said it was not a criminal offence.
      The BBC apologised to viewers who may have been offended but Lineker said the corporation had nothing to say sorry for.
      He shared a picture of the phone after it was discovered and said: “As sabotage goes, it was quite amusing.”
      Liverpool won 1-0 and Lineker said at half-time: “Harvey Elliott’s goal was a screamer . . . which was not the only one we’ve had tonight.”
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      Yesterday talkSPORT pundit Ally McCoist joked he’d never heard such a noise in his life, adding: “I’ve been doing it wrong for 40 years!”
      Jarvo added: “This prank will go down in history. I’ve always got things planned. I can’t tell you what’s next.” More

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      Gary Lineker laughs off Match of the Day ‘porn noise’ scandal & enjoyed half-time analysis with sex-filled innuendo

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      GARY Lineker yesterday laughed off the Match of the Day “porn noise” scandal — and said he took great pleasure filling his half-time analysis with sex-filled innuendo.The presenter said the BBC has had to look at its security measures following YouTuber Daniel “Jarvo” Jarvis’s stunt.
      Gary Lineker laughed off the MOTD ‘porn noise’ scandalCredit: BBC/UNPIXS
      The presenter said he enjoyed his half-time analysis with sex-filled innuendo – pictured The Sun’s coverage of the story
      But Gary, 62, who memorably had an on-pitch “accident” during England’s 1990 World Cup opener, joked: “If you told me yesterday morning that I’d be on the front page of The Sun, involved with a porn ­scandal, I’d have s*** myself — again!”
      Gary added: “I thought it was funny, and the YouTube prankster has shown his work.
      “It was that loud that I couldn’t really hear myself think, or what the other guys were saying, and realised people could probably hear it at home so I knew I had to both keep it together, whilst also addressing the matter.
      “In these situations, you have to keep your head.
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      “Yes, it’s funny but you can’t overwhelm the show — you can’t ignore it.
      “But, and after the studio manager had located the strap-on phone, I started to have a bit of fun with it all.
      “So at half-time every question I asked about the analysis, my comments were some kind of reference to it.
      “Things like ‘Wolves huffed and puffed’ or ‘the only goal was a screamer — and not the only screamer we had’, and ‘Liverpool pressed really hard in trying to get behind them’ — all that kind of thing.
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      “It was daft but it really did amuse me. And once I realised it was a prank, I knew that if I started laughing I probably wouldn’t have stopped.
      “It was the most surreal and one of the strangest things I’ve ever encountered in broadcasting.”
      Prankster Jarvo, a serial pitch invader, had broken into the studio and activated a sexy sounds ring tone on a mobile phone, which he hid on the set.
      He then called the phone during Gary’s studio segments at the Wolves v Liverpool FA Cup replay at Molineux on Tuesday.
      The BBC later issued a po-faced apology.
      But Gary questioned that decision.
      He said: “I’m not sure why the BBC apologised because it’s not our fault obviously.
      “It’s a security issue, and there is a serious side to it; if someone can do that, they can do something else with something that could be more dangerous.
      “But, in this instance, I felt that universally people were finding it really funny.
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      “And actually I have to agree with them, even if it was at our expense.
      “It was enjoyed, I think . . . much like those people on that phone!” More

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      Pele is set to be honoured in Brazil with a statue at Congress and could have Maracana named after him

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      FOOTY legend Pele is to get a statue at the Brazilian Congress, The Sun can reveal.Known as “O Rei” or the King of Football, Edson Arantes do Nascimento died aged 82 last month after battling colon cancer.
      Pele is set to get a statue in his honour after his death last month. He is pictured during a ceremony in Milan in 1990Credit: AFP
      Pele’s wife Marcia Aoki (C) is seen near his coffin during his funeral ceremony in DecemberCredit: Getty
      The whole of Brazil observed three days of national mourning following his passing.
      Now the three-time World Cup winner’s business manager says the country’s authorities are preparing to honor him with a statue at the National Congress building in Brasilia.
      Joe Fraga, 51, told The Sun: “There’s a conversation of putting a statue of him in the legislative area in Brasilia where they have other statues.
      “We’re talking with the Secretary of State who deals with those matters.

      “Pele is one of the most iconic people that ever lived on the planet and the biggest ambassador Brazil has ever had.
      “I don’t think there’s ever going to be anyone bigger than Pele to represent Brazil.
      “They’re also talking about naming the Maracana field in Rio de Janeiro after him and putting his face on a coin or maybe even a bill.
      “I don’t know what denomination it would be, we are just in the infancy of that conversation.
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      “The government has approached me about a tribute stamp too.”
      This isn’t the first statue to the soccer star. A Pele statue has also been erected at the Memorial Necrópole Ecumênica cemeteryCredit: Getty
      Fraga said he has also been contacted by the local governments of Sao Paulo, Santos – where Pele made his name as a player – and Gaurujá where he lived regarding statues and the naming of parks after Pele.
      Earlier this month Pele was laid to rest at Santos’ Vila Belmiro stadium.
      Some 230,000 mourners including the new Brazilian president Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva filed past his coffin to pay their respects.
      A huge mass was held at the stadium before the coffin was draped in a Brazil flag guarded by army soldiers this morning for the procession through the city.
      Pele’s coffin was carried through the streets and passed in front of the home of his 100-year-old mother, Celeste.
      The burial took place at the Memorial Necropole Ecumenica in Santos and only his family attended.
      Pele is said to have chosen the burial site on the ninth floor of the cemetery to allow him to “watch over” the Santos stadium.
      His final resting place is in a “vertical cemetery” in a 14-floor building that includes 14,000 vaults, a waterfall and a car museum.
      Pele burst onto the global stage in 1958 and helped Brazil win back-to-back World Cups four years later.
      His success in 1970 ensured he became and remains the only person to win three World Cup tournaments as a player.
      At club level Pele enjoyed 18 years at Santos, the team he made his debut for aged 15.
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      Overall, he scored a staggering 1,279 goals in 1,363 games, including friendlies, which is recognised as a Guinness World Record.
      He also managed a remarkable 77 goals in 92 games for the Brazilian national team.
      The whole of Brazil observed three days of national mourning following his passing. An aerial view of the streets during Pele’s funeral procession in Santos, BrazilCredit: Getty
      Earlier this month Pele (pictured in 2015) was laid to rest at Santos’ Vila Belmiro stadiumCredit: Getty More

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      England ace Harry Maguire snaps up beachfront villa on Caribbean resort loved by Wayne Rooney and Gary Lineker

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      ENGLAND ace Harry Maguire has snapped up a beachfront villa on a Barbados resort loved by Three Lions heroes Wayne Rooney and Gary Lineker.The Manchester United defender’s four-bed pad has a pool and overlooks an 18-hole golf course.
      England ace Harry Maguire has snapped up a beachfront villa on a Barbados resort loved by Three Lions heroes Wayne Rooney and Gary LinekerCredit: Reuters
      Harry, 29, and his wife Fern, 28, wanted somewhere private to escape with their two childrenCredit: Alamy
      Man United legend Rooney regularly holidays at the exclusive Royal Westmoreland resort with wife Coleen, 36, and their four kidsCredit: PA:Press Association
      Match of the Day host Lineker, 62, still visits after selling a property there in 2010Credit: Colorsport
      A source said Harry, 29, and wife Fern, 28, wanted somewhere private to escape with their two children.
      They added: “It’s been a tough year.
      “Harry’s struggled on the pitch and been targeted off it.
      “They need somewhere they can unwind.”

      Man United legend Rooney, 37, regularly holidays at the exclusive Royal Westmoreland resort with wife Coleen, 36, and their four kids after buying a £5million villa during his playing days.
      Match of the Day host Lineker, 62, still visits after selling a property there in 2010.
      Sir Cliff Richard and Denise van Outen are also regulars in the swish clubhouse.
      Maguire, a late sub in United’s dramatic 2-1 win over City in the Manchester derby, picked up the Barbados property during Covid.
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      He has also invested in a farm close to his family in Mosborough, South Yorks.
      A source said: “Harry is from Mosborough.
      “When he retires, that will be his long-term home.” More

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      Rio Ferdinand no longer watches Man Utd through his fingers as he praises turnaround under Erik ten Hag

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      RIO FERDINAND no longer has to watch Manchester United through his fingers fearing “crazy s***.”The Red Devils legend has watched the demise of his former club in recent years in his role as a TV pundit.
      Rio Ferdinand used to watch Manchester United through his handsCredit: Getty
      The club have been on the end of a number of embarrassing resultsCredit: Reuters
      But Ferdinand has praised the work of Erik ten HagCredit: PA
      But the six-time title winner now believes there is a bright light at the end of the tunnel under Erik ten Hag.
      The United boss is on an eight-game winning run going into tomorrow’s Manchester derby at Old Trafford.
      And Ferdinand said: “I’m going into this derby thinking, ‘We can give them a game’.
      “You can see players gaining in confidence. For far too long we were going into games thinking, ‘Obviously, we are going to get beat here today but I don’t know how many’.
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      “Or we were going to the likes of Brentford and concede one and it could be three or four.
      “When we have been feeling that as Man United fans, it is now nice going to games not feeling like that.
      “I am now going to a game not looking through my fingers, expecting crazy s going on. I am going there now with a bit of, ‘I fancy us today. I fancy us to beat them and dominate the ball’, because you can see something tactically that has been consistently coming out every week now.
      “We have got to play at our best and hope that they drop a little bit off it to win the game — but that is better than how I’ve gone into games in recent seasons.”
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      Ferdinand believes Ten Hag has done a lot more than just get a team up and running again.
      He feels the situation was so bad at the end of last season, with confidence at rock bottom throughout the club, that the Dutchman had to rebuild individuals as people as well as footballers.
      The former United defender added: “There were some really good quotes from him after the game the other day about the team spirit and how the ambience at the place was not right.
      “He would have seen that in half the results and in games and in training, that the mentality at the place was not right.
      “These were a bunch of players that were quite low, they were shot to pieces.
      “He has had to build not only footballers but men back up again because they have been through a lot of negativity.
      “Obviously, part of that is their own fault and the regime before.
      “But he had to build a lot of human beings back up and that takes time.
      Man Utd players have had many reasons to celebrate since Ten Hag took over compared to last seasonCredit: AFP
      “The fact he is now talking about qualifying for the Champions League so positively, and putting markers down, he can sense a confidence coming back into this team.
      “There is a consistency of performance from the team and individuals, that wasn’t there before, that he now believes and fills him with the confidence to speak about.
      “There isn’t that panic there was before or the complete capitulation that we’ve been seeing for a while. There is a much more calm edge around the team.
      “All the signs are very positive. I just feel like there is a jigsaw puzzle that needs putting together at this football club and there are some good pieces being put in place, whether it be the manager, coaching staff, the tactical element he is trying to implement, or recruitment.”
      One of the big pieces of the puzzle that needed putting back in place at United, according to Ferdinand, was the discipline.
      He said: “When people have asked me about Man United and what I want to see, one of them definitely is to have discipline running through the veins of the club.
      “Any team that is successful has an element of discipline. That is a real bedrock of any good football club, that discipline runs through, and the players are very aware of where they are standing in that, so that is pleasing to see. The fanbase will be looking at that and going, ‘I like that’.
      “Players are being made accountable for their actions, whether it is during 90 minutes or off the pitch and at the training ground. I think that is a key part of any success.”
      Fans always try to put together their best-combined team from both sides whenever a derby game approaches. In recent years few, if any, United players would get into City’s side.
      Marcus Rashford has been leading the club’s rise up the tableCredit: AFP
      But Ferdinand claims that is not the case any more — even if he believes Pep Guardiola’s side are still well ahead of United as it stands.
      He said: “On form, Marcus Rashford would have to be in the team.
      “Christian Eriksen would be in with a shout, Bruno Fernandes would be in with a shout. Casemiro or Rodri is a massive one in terms of form, the two best holding midfielders in the league.
      “Lisandro Martinez and Raphael Varane would have an argument to get in the team as well, so you could put a good case forward.
      “Definitely, the distance is a bit closer but it’s still not anywhere near where we want it to be. There is still work to be done.
      “The fact you can have an argument over four or five players getting into the team, or to have a conversation about it at least, is a step in the right direction.
      “But, let’s not get it twisted. City are way ahead of where Man United are.”
      Way ahead — but no longer over the hill and far away.Ferdinand, like many United fans, can see that bright new dawn on the horizon.
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      And he no longer has to look through his fingers and go searching for it.
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      Lewis Hamilton celebrates birthday with £200m mega-yacht cruise to see penguins in Antarctica

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      RACE ace Lewis Hamilton had a really ice birthday with a trip to see penguins in Antarctica.The seven-time F1 world champion was in (South) Pole position as he celebrated with the cruise on a £200million mega-yacht.
      Lewis Hamilton strikes a pose on a trip to see penguins in Antarctica
      The racing driver was joined by US Olympic snowboard gold medallist Shaun White
      Hamilton, 38 last Saturday, joined US Olympic snowboard gold medallist Shaun White, 36, on board M/Y Octopus.
      He was spotted in a video White posted on Instagram as the group snapped Adélie penguins in Antarctica’s Victoria Land.
      Hamilton also posed in a bright orange snowsuit for his own pictures and videos online.
      The 414ft Octopus, which costs £1.8million a week to charter, was built for late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and is owned by Swedish billionaire Roger Samuelsson.
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      The vessel boasts a glass-bottomed aquarium, dive centre and underwater robot.
      The racing driver also posted a video of him running with the “Eye of the Tiger” song playing over the top.
      Hamilton took this selfie in the South Pole
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      Celeb BB’s Natasha Giggs – who had affair with Man Utd legend Ryan – living with fireman who left his wife and 3 kids

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      CELEBRITY Big Brother’s Natasha Giggs has scored with a married man again — this time bagging a hunky fireman.The reality TV star, who had an affair with ex-footballer Ryan Giggs despite being wed to his brother Rhodri, is living with Haroon Headley after he walked out on his wife Nicole.
      Natasha Giggs has scored with a married man again — this time bagging a hunky firemanCredit: Dan Kennedy – The Sun
      Natasha is living with Haroon Headley after he walked out on his wife NicoleCredit: Andy Kelvin / Kelvinmedia
      The couple moved in to a three-bedroom home together in ManchesterCredit: Andy Kelvin / Kelvinmedia
      Natasha had an affair with Ryan Giggs despite being wed to his brother RhodriCredit: Getty
      Mum-of-four Natasha, 40, and dad-of-three Haroon, 45, have now moved in to a three-bedroom home together in Greater Manchester.
      But a source warned that Natasha, who also bedded a string of other footballers, may have met her match.
      The source said: “Haroon walked out on his wife and three kids a couple of months ago after more than 20 years of being together.
      “He has always fancied himself as a bit of a ladies’ man.
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      “Earlier this year things started to go from bad to worse in their relationship. Haroon would disappear for hours and then be very defensive when Nicole asked where he had been.
      “He and Natasha met and they hit it off and it would appear she knew he was a married man.
      “It may be she has met her match in him. Time will tell.”
      Stacey’s betrayal of husband Rhodri, 45, came to light in June 2011 when she admitted she had been sleeping with his footie ace brother Ryan, 49, for eight years.
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      She revealed she aborted Ryan’s baby just weeks before she married Rhodri in Las Vegas.
      Natasha and Ryan first began dating secretly in 2003 and continued their affair while his wife Stacey had been pregnant with their two children.
      The day before her interview was published, Natasha fled to Spain, leaving her mum to go round to tell Rhodri.
      Natasha, who has two children with Rhodri, appeared on Celebrity Big Brother in 2012, telling housemates: “I had a really long affair with a footballer who happened to be my brother-in-law.”
      A year later she started dating Mark Smith and had two more children with him.
      The couple are believed to have split during lockdown.
      Last year, Rhodri claimed his ex-wife had flings with ten footballers.
      Ryan Giggs with his mum and brother Rhodri with the Premiership trophyCredit: Collect
      Natasha with Rhodri celebrating their Las Vegas wedding in 2010Credit: Collect More