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      Despite the knee, I still get online racist abuse EVERY DAY

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      TROY DEENEY had hoped the very public stand taken by professional footballers against racism might have ended the torrent of abuse faced by black players.Yet racist bile continues to scar the game he loves — and wider society.
      Troy Deeney has revealed he gets online racist abuse every dayCredit: The Sun
      The Watford FC hero believes players taking the knee has helped ‘create the conversation’ around racism but believes there hasn’t been ‘enough change’ to show for itCredit: Times Newspapers Ltd
      Sun columnist Troy, 33, is still subjected to vile abuse “30 to 40 times a week”, he has revealed.
      Some comes at him in the street as Troy goes about his business, but the majority is on social media.
      The Watford FC hero, now with Birmingham City, says he ran into a brick wall after reporting the abuse to online giants.
      Now Troy, a dad of four, is campaigning to get black, Asian and minority ethnic history taught in schools.
      He has launched a petition and issued an open letter to Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi stressing “the importance of education at an early age to inform identity and combat racist beliefs and stereotypes”.
      He writes: “As my mum always says to me, ‘You can’t understand where you’re going if you don’t understand where you’ve come from’. This is an issue I don’t want repeated for my own children.
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      “We need to lay a pathway for longer-lasting change for our kids, as I believe the current system is failing children from ethnic minorities.”
      Troy draws experience from his own upbringing in making the case.
      At the tough Birmingham comprehensive Troy attended, the Archbishop Grimshaw school in Chelmsley Wood, lessons in black history amounted to watching a US-made slavery mini-series.
      Troy said in a Zoom interview: “They wheeled in the VCR and said, ‘Here you go, watch Roots’. That was about it.”
      There were no lessons about ethnic minority authors or the British Empire and little to “empower” a boy from his background.
      Troy was left feeling that he was destined to failure. He was expelled from school, leaving at the age of 15 without sitting exams.
      He revealed: “I kept getting in trouble — too many little detentions and getting thrown out of classes for being stupid.
      “I think I held the record for the amount of detentions you could get in one year. I wasn’t allowed to sit my exams but I was allowed to play in school football matches.”
      Now the bustling attacker is trying to prevent another generation of youngsters suffering the same fate of being excluded from school and missing out on the chance to learn.
      He added: “I wasn’t taught about people who looked like me. If we did talk about race and slavery, it was as an American issue.
      “There was no one I heard about in lessons who made me think I could be successful.”
      Troy’s talent for football would take him from what was then Europe’s biggest council estate to shaking hands with Prince William before the 2019 FA Cup Final.
      But it is as a campaigner for equality that he now wants to make his mark.
      Troy believes players taking the knee has helped “create the conversation” around racism but believes there hasn’t been “enough change” to show for it.
      Footballers here began taking a knee before kick-off in the wake of George Floyd’s death in the US. The 46-year-old black man was killed in May 2020 by white police officer Derek Chauvin in an event that sparked protests around the world.
      For now, teaching ethnic minority history and experiences is optional in England, with the choice being made by individual teachers and schools.Black history will be added to the curriculum in Welsh schools from September this year.
      As part of his campaign, Troy commissioned a YouGov survey in which 80 per cent of teachers polled agreed that “introducing more culturally diverse, representational topics are vital and enriching”.
      ‘SYSTEM FAILING ETHNIC MINORITIES’
      He said: “Despite the Government’s assertions that diverse topics are already in place on the curriculum and sufficient teacher training is provided, this is clearly not the case and the support and desire to do more is there.”
      He added: “The current system in England is failing ethnic minorities. It’s not about removing Sir Winston Churchill from the curriculum or forgetting World War Two happened. It’s about adding more diverse topics to kids’ lessons.”
      Troy wrote in his letter to the Education Secretary: “As the proud father of four children, three of which are currently in the education system, this topic has moved front and centre in my own life.
      “I have seen more and more how important it is for my children to be able to see themselves represented in what they are being taught and to learn about the contribution and background of people who look like them.”
      The footballer said he would be more than happy to meet Mr Zahawi to discuss the campaign, adding: “He can give me a call now and I’ll start driving down.”
      And what of the “stick to football” brickbats Troy is sure to receive from online trolls?
      He said: “I get abuse daily anyway, it comes with the territory.”

      Troy has launched a petition and issued an open letter to Education Secretary Nadhim ZahawiCredit: The Mega Agency More

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      Worst football club fan food revealed as Man Utd serve up scrambled egg and mash while another has cheese slice on chips

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      MANCHESTER United’s catering failed to score with BT Sport presenter Jake Humphrey as he cried foul over the meal he was served at Old Trafford during the Red Devils’ clash with Southampton.He tweeted: “Scrambled egg and mashed potato. Wow. Thanks for lunch @ManUtd.”
      Jake Humphrey cried foul over the meal he was served at Old Trafford during the Red Devils’ clash with SouthamptonCredit: mrjakehumphrey/twitter
      But United’s Theatre of Dreams is far from being the only football ground to have received a kicking for its food.
      Twitter account @FootyScran is dedicated to finding the nastiest nosh – as well as the nicest – on offer at stadiums across the country.
      Lower-league clubs often come up trumps, putting bigger teams to shame, with giant portions and gourmet grub at bargain prices.
      Here we reveal the top scorers, as well as the overpriced offerings that deserve to be shown a red card.
      Dulwich Hamlet
      BEST – Chicken Gyros, £7
      Fans of this South London side can tuck into this tasty-looking Greek-inspired kebabCredit: FOOTY SCRAN/
      Braintree Town
      Monster burger, £5.50
      The non-league Essex club should be top of the scran-pionship – thanks to its double pattie, bacon, onion and melted cheeseCredit: FOOTY SCRAN/
      Birmingham City
      Cheesy chips, £4
      Fans get a real Brum deal at the Championship club – this portion of pricey chips with a slice of plastic cheese is a relegation candidateCredit: Twitter
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      Hull City
      Hot Dog, £5.50
      This mean chilli-dog, with juicy jalapenos in a home-baked crusty roll gives the Championship side’s long-suffering fans one Hull-uva kickCredit: FOOTY SCRAN/
      Man City Women
      Pie and potato wedges, £5
      The club need to crust do better than this bite-size pie with five anaemic-looking potato wedges and gravyCredit: FOOTY SCRAN/
      Weymouth
      Cheesy chips, £3.50
      When it comes to a portion of cheesy chips this is the Wey to goCredit: FOOTY SCRAN
      FC United of Manchester
      Steak pie, peas and gravy with a pint, £6.40
      This Manc-y pitchside pie looks like it’s drowning in peas and gravyCredit: FOOTY SCRAN
      Rochdale
      Chicken Tandoori pie, £2.50
      This messy pie maybe cheap, but it won’t curry favour with fans of the League Two outfitCredit: FOOTY SCRAN
      Reading
      Chinese box, £10
      The Royals serve up a half-time feast fit for a Queen with its great value Chinese selection boxCredit: FOOTY SCRAN
      Tottenham Hotspur
      Salmon and noodles with a pint
      There’s something fishy going on with the North London side’s hospitality – this paltry portion is barely enough to feed a childCredit: FOOTY SCRAN
      Merthyr Town FC
      Sausages, chips and curry sauce in a cob, £4.50
      The semi-pro South Wales club has taken the chip butty to a whole new dimension of satisfactionCredit: FOOTY SCRAN

      St Albans FC
      Cheeseburger, £5
      A cheeseburger that was bought by a punter at the Hertfordshire club left quite a lot to be desired – including half its bunCredit: FOOTY SCRAN
      West Bromwich
      Pizza slice, £4
      Hungry fans at this Championship club might wish they had stoked up outside the stadium if this measly little dried-up quarter of a pizza is anything to go byCredit: FOOTY SCRAN
      Nairn County FC
      Good Pie In A Roll, £2.50
      Known as a Wigan kebab – though the club is in the Scottish Highlands – the meat pie in a barm cake is a bargain at £2.50Credit: FOOTY SCRAN
      Boreham Wood
      Double cheeseburger in a hot dog roll, £5
      The Hertfordshire club’s Boreham burger offers two patties for the price of one – net result!Credit: FOOTY SCRAN
      Chelsea
      WORST – Hot dog, £5.90
      A fan was left with the blues after shelling out nearly six quid and getting this weeny wiener which was dwarfed by the rollCredit: FOOTY SCRAN More

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      Worst football club fan food revealed as Man Utd serve up scrambled egg and mashed potato

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      MANCHESTER United’s catering failed to score with BT Sport presenter Jake Humphrey as he cried foul over the meal he was served at Old Trafford during the Red Devils’ clash with Southampton.He tweeted: “Scrambled egg and mashed potato. Wow. Thanks for lunch @ManUtd.”
      Jake Humphrey cried foul over the meal he was served at Old Trafford during the Red Devils’ clash with SouthamptonCredit: mrjakehumphrey/twitter
      But United’s Theatre of Dreams is far from being the only football ground to have received a kicking for its food.
      Twitter account @FootyScran is dedicated to finding the nastiest nosh – as well as the nicest – on offer at stadiums across the country.
      Lower-league clubs often come up trumps, putting bigger teams to shame, with giant portions and gourmet grub at bargain prices.
      Here we reveal the top scorers, as well as the overpriced offerings that deserve to be shown a red card.
      Dulwich Hamlet
      BEST – Chicken Gyros, £7
      Fans of this South London side can tuck into this tasty-looking Greek-inspired kebabCredit: FOOTY SCRAN/
      Braintree Town
      Monster burger, £5.50
      The non-league Essex club should be top of the scran-pionship – thanks to its double pattie, bacon, onion and melted cheeseCredit: FOOTY SCRAN/
      Birmingham City
      Cheesy chips, £4
      Fans get a real Brum deal at the Championship club – this portion of pricey chips with a slice of plastic cheese is a relegation candidateCredit: Twitter
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      Hull City
      Hot Dog, £5.50
      This mean chilli-dog, with juicy jalapenos in a home-baked crusty roll gives the Championship side’s long-suffering fans one Hull-uva kickCredit: FOOTY SCRAN/
      Man City Women
      Pie and potato wedges, £5
      The club need to crust do better than this bite-size pie with five anaemic-looking potato wedges and gravyCredit: FOOTY SCRAN/
      Weymouth
      Cheesy chips, £3.50
      When it comes to a portion of cheesy chips this is the Wey to goCredit: FOOTY SCRAN
      FC United of Manchester
      Steak pie, peas and gravy with a pint, £6.40
      This Manc-y pitchside pie looks like it’s drowning in peas and gravyCredit: FOOTY SCRAN
      Rochdale
      Chicken Tandoori pie, £2.50
      This messy pie maybe cheap, but it won’t curry favour with fans of the League Two outfitCredit: FOOTY SCRAN
      Reading
      Chinese box, £10
      The Royals serve up a half-time feast fit for a Queen with its great value Chinese selection boxCredit: FOOTY SCRAN
      Tottenham Hotspur
      Salmon and noodles with a pint
      There’s something fishy going on with the North London side’s hospitality – this paltry portion is barely enough to feed a childCredit: FOOTY SCRAN
      Merthyr Town FC
      Sausages, chips and curry sauce in a cob, £4.50
      The semi-pro South Wales club has taken the chip butty to a whole new dimension of satisfactionCredit: FOOTY SCRAN

      St Albans FC
      Cheeseburger, £5
      A cheeseburger that was bought by a punter at the Hertfordshire club left quite a lot to be desired – including half its bunCredit: FOOTY SCRAN
      West Bromwich
      Pizza slice, £4
      Hungry fans at this Championship club might wish they had stoked up outside the stadium if this measly little dried-up quarter of a pizza is anything to go byCredit: FOOTY SCRAN
      Nairn County FC
      Good Pie In A Roll, £2.50
      Known as a Wigan kebab – though the club is in the Scottish Highlands – the meat pie in a barm cake is a bargain at £2.50Credit: FOOTY SCRAN
      Boreham Wood
      Double cheeseburger in a hot dog roll, £5
      The Hertfordshire club’s Boreham burger offers two patties for the price of one – net result!Credit: FOOTY SCRAN
      Chelsea
      WORST – Hot dog, £5.90
      A fan was left with the blues after shelling out nearly six quid and getting this weeny wiener which was dwarfed by the rollCredit: FOOTY SCRAN More

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      Worst football club fan food revealed as Man Utd serves up scrambled egg with mashed potato

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      MANCHESTER United’s catering failed to score with BT Sport presenter Jake Humphrey this weekend as he cried foul over the meal he was served at Old Trafford during the Red Devils’ clash with Southampton.He tweeted: “Scrambled egg and mashed potato. Wow. Thanks for lunch @ManUtd.”
      Jake Humphrey cried foul over the meal he was served at Old Trafford during the Red Devils’ clash with SouthamptonCredit: mrjakehumphrey/twitter
      But United’s Theatre of Dreams is far from being the only football ground to have received a kicking for its food.
      Twitter account @FootyScran is dedicated to finding the nastiest nosh – as well as the nicest – on offer at stadiums across the country.
      Lower-league clubs often come up trumps, putting bigger teams to shame, with giant portions and gourmet grub at bargain prices.
      Here we reveal the top scorers, as well as the overpriced offerings that deserve to be shown a red card.
      Dulwich Hamlet
      BEST – Chicken Gyros, £7
      Fans of this South London side can tuck into this tasty-looking Greek-inspired kebabCredit: FOOTY SCRAN/
      Braintree Town
      Monster burger, £5.50
      The non-league Essex club should be top of the scran-pionship – thanks to its double pattie, bacon, onion and melted cheeseCredit: FOOTY SCRAN/
      Birmingham City
      Cheesy chips, £4
      Fans get a real Brum deal at the Championship club – this portion of pricey chips with a slice of plastic cheese is a relegation candidateCredit: Twitter
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      Hull City
      Hot Dog, £5.50
      This mean chilli-dog, with juicy jalapenos in a home-baked crusty roll gives the Championship side’s long-suffering fans one Hull-uva kickCredit: FOOTY SCRAN/
      Man City Women
      Pie and potato wedges, £5
      The club need to crust do better than this bite-size pie with five anaemic-looking potato wedges and gravyCredit: FOOTY SCRAN/
      Weymouth
      Cheesy chips, £3.50
      When it comes to a portion of cheesy chips this is the Wey to goCredit: FOOTY SCRAN
      FC United of Manchester
      Steak pie, peas and gravy with a pint, £6.40
      This Manc-y pitchside pie looks like it’s drowning in peas and gravyCredit: FOOTY SCRAN
      Rochdale
      Chicken Tandoori pie, £2.50
      This messy pie maybe cheap, but it won’t curry favour with fans of the League Two outfitCredit: FOOTY SCRAN
      Reading
      Chinese box, £10
      The Royals serve up a half-time feast fit for a Queen with its great value Chinese selection boxCredit: FOOTY SCRAN
      Tottenham Hotspur
      Salmon and noodles with a pint
      There’s something fishy going on with the North London side’s hospitality – this paltry portion is barely enough to feed a childCredit: FOOTY SCRAN
      Merthyr Town FC
      Sausages, chips and curry sauce in a cob, £4.50
      The semi-pro South Wales club has taken the chip butty to a whole new dimension of satisfactionCredit: FOOTY SCRAN

      St Albans FC
      Cheeseburger, £5
      A cheeseburger that was bought by a punter at the Hertfordshire club left quite a lot to be desired – including half its bunCredit: FOOTY SCRAN
      West Bromwich
      Pizza slice, £4
      Hungry fans at this Championship club might wish they had stoked up outside the stadium if this measly little dried-up quarter of a pizza is anything to go byCredit: FOOTY SCRAN
      Nairn County FC
      Good Pie In A Roll, £2.50
      Known as a Wigan kebab – though the club is in the Scottish Highlands – the meat pie in a barm cake is a bargain at £2.50Credit: FOOTY SCRAN
      Boreham Wood
      Double cheeseburger in a hot dog roll, £5
      The Hertfordshire club’s Boreham burger offers two patties for the price of one – net result!Credit: FOOTY SCRAN
      Chelsea
      WORST – Hot dog, £5.90
      A fan was left with the blues after shelling out nearly six quid and getting this weeny wiener which was dwarfed by the rollCredit: FOOTY SCRAN More

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      I don’t feel any different – my goal is to play at World Cup, says Christian Eriksen

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      SHROUDED from view by his weeping teammates, Christian Eriksen “died for five minutes” as millions of Euro 2020 viewers looked on aghast.Today, less than eight months after having a cardiac arrest on the pitch while playing for Denmark, he’s preparing for a Premier League return as he begins training with his new team.
      Immediately after the harrowing collapse, Eriksen told the mother of his one-year-old daughter and son Alfred, three, there was ‘no way’ he would return to footballCredit: Instagram @chriseriksen8
      A trainer performed chest compressions on stricken Eriksen as the crowd fell eerily silentCredit: EPA
      We imagine what Erikson will look like in his Brentford kit
      And loyal girlfriend Sabrina Kvist Jensen is supporting his fairytale comeback at West London club Brentford — which he hopes will be the first step in fulfilling his dream of playing in this year’s World Cup.
      Midfielder Eriksen, 29, who spent six and a half  years at Tottenham, said: “If Sabrina had said, ‘I don’t want you to play any more,’ this would be a very different situation.
      “Of course, we have a trauma from June 12, but since then we have found our bearings so that Sabrina is OK with me going to the gym for a few hours and to the practice field.
      “She trusts that when I go, I always come back.”
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      Immediately after the harrowing collapse, Eriksen told the mother of his one-year-old daughter and son Alfred, three, there was “no way” he would return to football.
      The distraught hairdresser leapt over the barriers to be at his side when he collapsed at  Copenhagen’s Parken Stadium.
      According to Denmark’s legendary goalie Peter Schmeichel — whose son Kasper was their keeper that day — devoted Sabrina, now 27, initially assumed her partner was dead.
      Ex-Manchester United star Peter said: “You could see from the reaction of Kasper running over to her to say Christian is breathing, she actually believed he had passed away.”
      The Bees’ new signing will play with a pacemaker-type device called an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) — and he is the only known Premier League player who has the  implement, which can restart his heart.
      He revealed: “Worst case, if it happens again, this thing helps me right away. It’s very reassuring.”
      But he isn’t content with merely returning to British top-flight football.
      Eriksen revealed: “My goal is to play at the World Cup in Qatar. This has been my mindset all along.
      “I’m sure I can come back because I don’t feel any different. Physically, I’m back in top shape.”
      Another person who will be delighted with Eriksen’s progress is his former team mate at Spurs, Harry Kane. The England skipper was “numb with shock” after the Dane’s horror collapse at the delayed Euros.
      The Three Lions striker led well-wishes to Eriksen as he lay in hospital. His wife Katie, 29, also called Sabrina to offer her support.
      The two couples would go out as a foursome after Eriksen signed for Spurs in 2013. They were spotted together at Zuma sushi restaurant in Knightsbridge and a Bruno Mars concert at the O2 Arena.
      The teatime Euro 2020 fixture between Denmark and Finland, when Eriksen collapsed, will remain indelibly etched on the minds of all who witnessed it.
      In the 42nd minute Eriksen — waiting to receive a throw-in — stumbled and fell forwards.
      The Danish players — some crying and others with their hands clasped in prayer — gathered around the fallen superstar to shield him from view.
      A trainer performed chest compressions on stricken Eriksen as the crowd fell eerily silent.
      It was nearly 20 minutes before the player was transferred to a stretcher and carried off the field.
      Fans around the globe were buoyed by the sight of a conscious Eriksen resting his hand on his forehead.
      Recalling the build-up to the game, he told Danish TV station DR1 last month: “I felt like normal. I remember (Joakim) Maehle’s throw-in. I remember being hit by the ball and I passed it back using my shin.
      “I felt a small cramp in my calf and then I blacked out.
      “When I woke up from the CPR it was like waking from a dream.
      “I don’t remember a thing from when I passed out. I’m on my back when I wake up. I feel them pressing on me. I struggled to breathe — and then I heard faint voices and doctors talking.
      “I’m thinking, ‘This can’t be me lying here, I’m healthy’. My first thought is that I broke my back. ‘Can I move my legs? I can move my toes . . . ’”
      The Danish team’s talisman clearly recalls fans singing his name as he was stretchered to an ambulance.
      He revealed: “I remember the white linen around me to shield me from view.
      “I look up and see the fans singing. I get carried out to the ambulance.
      “It’s not until I’m in the ambulance that I realise I had been dead.
      “I’m thinking, ‘Keep my boots, I won’t play again’.
      “I tell my fiancée Sabrina the same — ‘I’m not going to play again, no way’.”
      The then-Inter Milan midfielder added: “At the hospital, they kept saying I’d received more and more flowers. I didn’t expect people to send flowers because I’d died for five minutes.
      “It had an impact on so many people, and they felt a need to let me and my family know. That makes me very happy.”
      The footballer was fitted with an ICD and has returned to full health.
      ‘Besides being a superstar, he is very down to earth’
      Dr Malcolm Finlay, a consultant cardiologist  at London Bridge Hospital, describes an ICD as a “parachute”.
      He said: “It listens to the heartbeat and if the heart runs to a crazily fast rhythm, then the computer delivers an electric shock to the heart.”
      As Denmark progressed through the tournament to a semi-final encounter with England at Wembley, Eriksen admits he craved being out on the pitch. He explained: “I was happy they got so far, but I wanted to be there.”
      At just 29, the lure of top-flight football was still strong for this supreme competitor as the months went by. A wealthy man following a stellar career at Ajax, Tottenham and Inter, he still felt he had a footballing itch to scratch.
      To regain full fitness, he worked with a personal trainer at Swiss club FC Chiasso, a one-hour drive from his Milan apartment.
      Yet he could not continue with Inter as rules in Italy forbid players from competing with heart-monitoring devices.
      On transfer deadline day last week,  Brentford announced they had got their man on a six-month deal — the highest-profile player in the club’s history.
      Brentford’s Danish manager Thomas Frank, 48, said: “Besides being a top player and superstar, he is very humble and down to earth. That is a big quality. Because of what happened, some of the bigger clubs weren’t interested to take the chance.”
      Eriksen’s arrival has prompted  Brentford strips to sell at 30 times the usual rate as fans from South Korea, the US, Australia and Greenland snap up the red-and-white shirts.
      Brentford said for confidentiality reasons it won’t be releasing details of the stringent medical tests Eriksen has had.
      But Frank said: “The specialists that have seen him know that everything is perfect.”
      Professor Aneil Malhotra, lead cardiologist for clubs including Manchester United, Manchester City and Leeds, called Eriksen’s return “groundbreaking”.
      But ex-Bolton Wanderers star Fabrice Muamba, who retired from professional football after a cardiac arrest on the pitch, said he was “worried” about  Eriksen’s return. Muamba, 33, who also has an ICD, collapsed on the pitch at  Tottenham in 2012 and was resuscitated after 78 minutes.
      He revealed on his YouTube channel:  “I’m not saying it’s going to happen again but the medical staff will always say to you it might happen.”
      However, Eriksen says he’s not worried “in the slightest” about collapsing again.
      He said: “I have been cleared and monitored and tested.
      “I worried I would be afraid there (the pitch) but I’m not. So people can stop worrying.”
      After his first training session with the Bees today, manager Frank will assess when he can start his first game.
      The club’s head coach said: “It is going to be an unbelievable day when he steps on to the pitch.
      “It is a little bit of a miracle that he wants to play football again.”

      Players who got extra time
      CHRISTIAN Eriksen is not the only footballer to play on with an ICD.
      German Daniel Engelbrecht was 22 when he had a cardiac arrest on the pitch playing for third-tier Stuttgarter Kickers in 2013.
      The former striker said: “The love of football was bigger than the fear of dying. That was the reason I played again.”
      The ICD came to his rescue three times – in hospital, in a match and in training – before he hung up his boots in 2018.
      He told The Telegraph: “I wanted to play football at 100 per cent – and I only had 60 or 70 per cent.
      “The second point was that, every day I went to training, I was afraid to die.
      The third point was that my family told me their biggest fear was calling me after training or a game and never getting an answer.”Belgian defender Anthony Van Loo, 33, was diagnosed with a heart condition in 2008 but played on after getting  an ICD.
      YouTube footage from 2009 shows him collapsing during a match before a jolt from his ICD made him spasm and sit up.
      He collapsed during a game once more in 2018 and, despite making a recovery, he retired from football for good.
      In 2019, former Manchester United defender Daley Blind was fitted with an ICD after feeling dizzy while playing for Ajax. He was diagnosed with heart muscle inflammation known as cardiomyopathy.
      The next year his ICD went off during a pre-season warm-up match. He sat down but was able to walk off the pitch.
      Blind, 31, has continued playing, making 27 appearances for Ajax last season.

      Loyal girlfriend Sabrina Kvist Jensen is supporting his fairytale comeback at West London Club BrentfordCredit: chriseriksen8/Instagram
      The distraught hairdresser leapt over the barriers to be at his side when he collapsed at  Copenhagen’s Parken StadiumCredit: AFP
      Christian could not continue with Inter as rules in Italy forbid players from competing with heart-monitoring devicesCredit: AFP More

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      I dressed up as Tina Turner in fishnets and a mini skirt – and drunk men fancied me, says football legend John Barnes

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      IT was one of the wildest decades in football — and John Barnes has revealed how he had Simply The Best time when he partied in the Eighties dressed as Tina Turner.The former Liverpool star has told how crazy antics were widespread before the Premier League transformed the top of the game into a slick, money-making machine.
      John Barnes had Simply The Best time when he partied in the Eighties dressed as Tina Turner
      John is shown in one photo kicking a banana away that had been hurled on to the grass
      On Kate Garraway’s Life Stories tonight he recalls how players were constantly going on booze binges celebrating the team’s regular triumphs.
      He tells Kate, who is making her debut as the show’s presenter: “In the late Eighties into the early Nineties we were celebrating most nights.
      “It got messy from an alcoholic point of view for a lot of the big drinkers.
      “But of course you couldn’t make excuses to not come into training and play properly.
      “If you want to be sick on the side of the pitch because you’ve drunk too much, that’s fine.
      “Our Christmas parties were fancy dress. It would go on until maybe eight or nine in the morning, then you just go in fancy dress straight to training. You’d come in your Mickey Mouse costume, or whatever it was.”
      ‘Dalglish let me have it’
      At one memorable party, John, 58, transformed himself into pop legend Tina Turner — and a few fellas gave him admiring glances.
      He said: “There was the fishnet tights, cowboy boots, the little fur coat and have the stockings just below the skirt with the garter belt, and the wig, the make-up.
      “During the night I had some close scares because after people got drunk they really didn’t know it was John Barnes.
      “If you’re in the toilet with a lot of drunk men and you were fairly attractive because I was a little bit slimmer then.”
      Recalling the next day’s training session, John added: “I didn’t have to turn up as Tina Turner because I could take my tights off and I would go in in the skirt and the boots.
      “It was fine, though, because Kenny Dalglish was with us — and he was the manager. You could get away with anything if you were a good footballer.”
      Nobody could argue that John wasn’t a top flight player. After signing for Watford in 1981, aged 17, he was playing for the national team within two years.
      In 1984, age just 20, John came to international prominence by scoring a memorable wondergoal for England against Brazil.
      Taking the ball on his chest, he began an eight-second run from the left, beating  six players before knocking the ball past keeper Roberto Costa.
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      The dazzled crowd  in the 56,000-capacity Maracanã stadium gave him a standing ovation — and that opening goal just before half-time  set up the Three Lions   for a 2-0 victory in the friendly.
      Left winger John signed for Liverpool in 1987. During his decade with the club they won two league titles and became adored by reds fans.
      He describes Scousers as “his people” and explains that is why he still lives in the city.
      But from manager Dalglish, the love was conditional. John  could get away with bad behaviour, until he didn’t perform on the pitch.
      He recalled the time he and a fellow player got drunk and decided to strip off before jumping into Liverpool’s Albert Dock.
      John recalls: “Kenny Dalglish got told the next day but never mentioned it.
      “But a month later I had a bad game and he came down at half time and that’s when he let me have it — because he’d remembered.”
      In contrast to other players seduced by the party lifestyle, he remained more anchored by being married to first wife Suzy, with whom he had four children — Jamie, Jordan, Jemma and Jasmine.
      He went on to marry a second time to Andrea, with whom he has two daughters — Isabella and Tia.
      His fame grew and reached a peak in 1990, just before that year’s World Cup in Italy.
      In the late Eighties into the early Nineties we were celebrating most nights. It got messy from an alcoholic point of view for a lot of the big drinkers. But of course you couldn’t make excuses to not come into training and play properly.John Barnes
      His rap was the standout moment on New Order’s official England single, World In Motion — and to this day he can recall every word.
      But only a handful of his team-mates turned up to the recording because they thought the track would be a flop like the previous World Cup song.
      John said: “The rest of the players said: ‘Well the song’s going to be rubbish again because it was in 1986’, so they didn’t turn up. Only six people did the song.
      “When we got to the studios and we saw that it was New Order we realised it was going to be a proper song with a proper group.
      “But before we did the song they said, ‘You can either get royalties or you can get £5,000 to share between all 25 of you.’
      “All the players got together and they said: ‘Do royalties mean if we don’t sell one record we don’t get any money?’ They went: ‘Yeah’ so they said: ‘We’ll take the £5,000.’
      “Then it was No1 for three months.”
      ‘Cowering in corners’
      After his playing career ended John went on to be a manager and a pundit. More recently he has appeared on a string of TV shows including Strictly Come Dancing, Who Do You Think You Are? and Celebrity Big Brother.
      He has also appeared on programmes such as BBC1’s Question Time talking about race and discrimination — a subject he has plenty of experience of.
      Born in Kingston, Jamaica, John came to the UK when he was 12 and lived in London.
      Like so many black players emerging in the game in the Eighties, he faced horrendous abuse, with chants and monkey gestures from crowds during games.
      In a defining image of the abuse that non-white players had to deal with at the time, John is shown in one photo kicking a banana away that had been hurled on to the grass.
      He said: “That picture with the banana, I don’t even remember doing that because it happened whenever we played.
      “You had National Front banners in the crowd. “This is what players had been through all the time so it wasn’t shocking to me because I’d seen this before.
      “But I did not endure the everyday reality of the black experience. I had it on a Saturday, but then on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, any restaurant I wanted to go to, if I wanted to go to Downing Street to meet the Prime Minister (I could).
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      “Whereas the everyday experience of the black working class, this was something they had to deal with all their lives.
      “I remember going down the Holloway Road in London and I’m on a coach. I played for Watford and there were lots of Arsenal fans there and they’re throwing stuff at the coach and racially abusing me.
      “Interspersed among them you have average black people going about their everyday lives, shopping, and they’re cowering in corners — they’re ducking, they’re hiding.
      “I was an elite footballer. I was on the coach. But nobody is speaking for them.”
      Although fighting racism in football has come on leaps and bounds over the decades since then, John says he believes many black Brits still have to suffer discrimination on a daily basis — and says it has to change.
      He said: “Here we are 30 years later still talking about ‘the elite’ rather than what’s going on in the inner cities.
      “There’s invisible banana skins and unspoken racist abuse to black people every day of their lives. And nobody is talking about it.”

      Kate Garraway’s Life Stories starts tonight on ITV at 9pm.

      Kate Garraway’s Life Stories starts tonight on ITV at 9pm
      John’s rap was the standout moment on New Order’s official England single, World In Motion
      John said: ‘You could get away with anything if you were a good footballer’
      John transformed himself into pop legend Tina Turner — and a few fellas gave him admiring glances
      Ex England star John Barnes says football can’t solve racism problem on its own after Saka, Rashford and Sancho abused More

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      ‘My life with Ronaldo is just like any other family’ Georgina Rodriguez shows huge £4.8m mansion and £5.5m superyacht

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      SHE once went to work in a shop on the bus — and came back in a £1.5million Bugatti sports car.As the girlfriend of footie icon Cristiano Ronaldo, Georgina Rodriguez is one of the most followed women on social media.
      Georgina Rodriguez says: ‘I went from selling luxury items to wearing them on the red carpet’Credit: INSTAGRAM/ GEORGINA RODRIGUEZ
      Georgina adds: ‘I have millions of followers and I’m the woman of the most-followed man in the world’Credit: Instagram / @georginagio
      Georgina says her daily life with the superstar sportsman is ‘normal’Credit: Instagram @cristiano
      Her life in the lap of luxury is the subject of new Netflix documentary I Am Georgina, debuting on Thursday to mark her 28th birthday.
      Yet don’t expect a warts-and-all account of her rise from humble beginnings.
      Despite her hints at a tough upbringing, the show presents an airbrushed look at the life of the woman in the life of Manchester United’s Ronaldo.
      There is no mention of the rape allegations made against him in 2005 and 2009, which were later withdrawn; nor of tensions in her family amid claims from relatives the model has shut them out.
      Though she insists, “Nothing in life has come easy”, I Am Georgina is the telly equivalent of her Instagram account — showcasing a serene marriage, beautiful children and lavish spending.
      Recalling the early days of their romance, when Ronaldo picked her up from her job as a sales assistant at a Gucci store in Madrid, Georgina says: “I’d get there on the bus and leave in a Bugatti.
      “I went from selling luxury items to wearing them on the red carpet. I have millions of followers and I’m the woman of the most-followed man in the world.”
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      She is mum to their four-year-old daughter Alana and is pregnant with twins.
      The footballer has three other children, whose mothers are not publicly known: 11-year-old Cristiano Jr and twins Mateo and Eva, four.
      Georgina teases a rags-to-riches story but the show’s first two episodes barely scratch the glossy surface.
      Ronaldo was first accused of raping Kathryn Mayorga — who waived her right to anonymity — in a Las Vegas hotel 12 years ago.
      He settled out of court, paying her $375,000 in 2009, although the former model and schoolteacher later claimed she had signed a deal under duress.
      Last year a judge dismissed her attempt to sue Ronaldo for £56million over leaked documents.
      The striker has consistently denied the claims, saying in 2018: “Rape is an abominable crime that goes against everything that I am and believe in.”
      Similarly overlooked in the Netflix documentary is Georgina’s uncle Jesus Hernandez, who branded her “evil” for not telling him where his late brother Jorge, her dad, is buried.
      Jorge died in 2019.
      He said: “I’ve written on Cristiano’s Facebook, ‘You’ve got the most evil woman at your side’ and, ‘If you want to know, contact me, I will tell you’.”
      Streering well clear of those difficult topics, the doc instead revels in displays of dizzying extravagance.
      Georgina opens the doors to their homes in Turin — where Ronaldo played for three seasons from 2018 with Italian giants Juventus — and Madrid, plus their private jet and £5.5million yacht.
      The first time I went to Cristiano’s house, I’d get lost every time I went to the kitchen. It would take me half an hour to get back because I didn’t know the way.Georgina Rodriquez
      She says it took a while to get used to his opulent lifestyle, including the £4.8million pad in Madrid he bought when he signed for Real in a then-world record £80million transfer in 2009.
      The mansion, in the super-expensive La Finca residential estate, has indoor and outdoor swimming pools, a gym and a football pitch where Cristiano Jr is seen honing his footie skills.
      A glimpse at the showroom-style garage reveals a fleet of supercars including two Rolls-Royces, Ferraris and a Bugatti.
      Georgina says wistfully: “The first time I went to Cristiano’s house I’d get lost every time I went to the kitchen for water.
      “Sometimes it would take me half an hour to get back from the living room because I didn’t know the way. It was so big. Since I was a kid, I’d been used to living in small apartments.
      “After half a year, I got to know where everything was.”
      “After half a year, I got to know where everything was.”
      Now settled in as the lady of the house, Georgina is seen instructing an interior designer on a makeover to make the decor “more homogeneous”, saying: “Don’t mix patterns with marble, with lights. Don’t get plastic flowers. Don’t get new books.”
      Their £40million property empire also includes a mountainside mansion in Turin, with two adjoining villas, which became home when Ronaldo agreed his £100million switch to Juventus.
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      Filmed before Ronaldo’s return to Manchester United last year, which saw the family relocate to this country, Georgina reveals she dreads the prospect of another move.
      She says: “I love living in Turin. Everything is close. If we want snow, we go to the snow.
      “If we want a more cosmopolitan day, we go to Milan. If we want sea we go to Monaco.
      “Staying in Turin depends on many things but mostly on Cris. I don’t ask for much in that sense because at the end of the day, I’m happy at home.
      I went from selling luxury items to wearing them on the red carpet. I have millions of followers and I’m the woman of the most-followed man in the world.Georgina Rodriquez
      “I work from home, I take care of my children and they are super-happy wherever we go because we have the resources to get them into the best schools and the best extra-curricular activities. But I would like to stay a little longer.”
      Georgina is seen flying to Paris on the couple’s jet, the interior of which features leather sofas and monogrammed pillows, to visit the studio of designer Jean Paul Gaultier.
      There, she delights in trying on dresses for a trip to Cannes.
      Proving she has become more than accustomed to the lifestyle, she says: “The jet makes travel easier. If I had to be in an airport for two hours with Cristiano, I’d go insane. I’d rather not travel.”
      She hosts a Grand Prix weekend in Monaco on board their 90ft yacht, named CG Mare, inviting her “darlings” — a tight-knit group that includes pals from her Gucci days and big sister Ivana.
      The gang were summoned, we learn, with a last-minute text,
      “You always have to have your bags ready with my sister,” says Ivana.
      “You never know what the next surprise will be. If you blink, you miss out on the adventure.”
      Other jaw-dropping moments include Georgina’s chat with a travel agent about their forthcoming summer holiday, when she reels off a list of requirements for their private villa.
      These include “many rooms and a private pool, easy access to the dock for a smaller boat and a piece of land to walk with the kids and not have to leave the villa to take them out for a stroll”.
      She adds that a gym is not necessary because if there’s a spare room, “we’ll bring the machines”.
      Georgina is perhaps most passionate discussing her wardrobe of designer clothes, shoes and bags.
      I don’t consider myself a phenomenon but I do consider myself a fortunate woman because I know what it is to have nothing and I know what it is to have everything.Georgina Rodriquez
      She enthuses: “I love Hermes, I love Gucci, I love Prada. It’s so feminine. I love Louis Vuitton. I love Decathlon! I love Nike. I love all brands. I have a very unique style.
      “They’ve tried to change my style many times but if I don’t feel like myself, I don’t wear it. I don’t want to go out there insecure.”
      Georgina seems to have resisted hiring a nanny and does the school run herself . . . albeit with a security guard driving the car.
      She says: “I’m thankful I have the freedom that I don’t have to get up at 7am and get home at 9pm like many mums. I have the economic means that I can stay home.
      “I’m aware I have the opportunity to look after the kids myself. They mean everything to me.”
      Originally from Argentina, Georgina grew up in the Spanish region of Murcia and always had a “strong maternal instinct”.
      Remembering her childhood, she says: “Before going to school, I would play with my little kitchen and the cribs.
      “I would leave them ready so when I came back I would take them for a stroll around my minute house. They were well looked-after.”
      Ronaldo says the children are his “whole life”, adding: “They are something I always dreamed of — having a big family.
      “I’m really, really happy, knowing (Georgina) is the ideal person to give our kids a good upbringing and educate them, love them and care for them.
      “With four kids, three of them are basically toddlers and if you don’t have a mother to support you in that way, even if you’re the best dad in the world, I think you end up falling short.”
      When it comes to the kids, Georgina is keen to depict their daily life as normal.
      I love Hermes, I love Gucci, I love Prada. It’s so feminine. I love Louis Vuitton. I love Decathlon! I love Nike. I love all brands.Georgina Rodriquez
      She says: “We’re like any other family. We have breakfast together, Cris goes to training, I get ready whatever needs to get ready.
      “If I have to take care of the house, I’ll do that, or a vacation, a trip, a future career project, my children.
      To me, my home is my temple, a place to wind down, I have the peace I need there.
      “I feel a sense of family, I’m valued, spoiled and loved. Sometimes I think ‘Man, I’m so happy’.”
      She adds: “I don’t consider myself a phenomenon but I do consider myself a fortunate woman because I know what it is to have nothing and I know what it is to have everything.
      “When I was little, I used to dream of having a wonderful family, building a home.
      “I used to dream of a Prince Charming by my side. And now I have one, with wonderful kids who give me so much love.
      “And yes, I can say, ‘Dreams do come true’.”

      Soy Georgina (I Am Georgina) is on Netflix from Thursday Jan 27.

      Georgina says: ‘When I was little, I used to dream of having a wonderful family, building a home. I used to dream of a Prince Charming by my side. And now I have one’Credit: BackGrid
      Georgina says: ‘I love Hermes, I love Gucci, I love Prada. It’s so feminine. I love Louis Vuitton. I love Decathlon! I love Nike. I love all brands’Credit: BackGrid
      Georgina says: ‘We’re like any other family. We have breakfast together, Cris goes to training, I get ready — whatever needs to get ready’
      Recalling the early days of their romance, when Ronaldo picked her up from her job as a sales assistant at a Gucci store in Madrid, Georgina says: ‘I’d get there on the bus and leave in a Bugatti’Credit: EPA
      In the Netflix doc Georgina opens the doors to the couple’s homes in Turin and Madrid plus their private jet and £5.5million megayachtCredit: Instagram / @georginagio
      Georgina is pictured on the stairs of a private jetCredit: Instagram
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      ‘My life with Ronaldo is just like any other family’ Georgina Rodriguez shows £4.8m mansion and £5.5m superyacht

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      SHE once went to work in a shop on the bus — and got picked up in a £1.5million Bugatti sports car.As the girlfriend of footie icon Cristiano Ronaldo, Georgina Rodriguez is one of the most followed women on social media.
      Georgina Rodriguez says: ‘I went from selling luxury items to wearing them on the red carpet’Credit: INSTAGRAM/ GEORGINA RODRIGUEZ
      Georgina adds: ‘I have millions of followers and I’m the woman of the most-followed man in the world’Credit: Instagram / @georginagio
      Georgina says her daily life with the superstar sportsman is ‘normal’Credit: Instagram @cristiano
      Her life in the lap of luxury is the subject of new Netflix documentary I Am Georgina, debuting on Thursday to mark her 28th birthday.
      Yet don’t expect a warts-and-all account of her rise from humble beginnings.
      Despite her hints at a tough upbringing, the show presents an airbrushed look at the life of the woman in the life of Manchester United’s Ronaldo.
      There is no mention of the rape allegations made against him in 2005 and 2009, which were later withdrawn; nor of tensions in her family amid claims from relatives the model has shut them out.
      Though she insists, “Nothing in life has come easy”, I Am Georgina is the telly equivalent of her Instagram account — showcasing a serene marriage, beautiful children and lavish spending.
      Recalling the early days of their romance, when Ronaldo picked her up from her job as a sales assistant at a Gucci store in Madrid, Georgina says: “I’d get there on the bus and leave in a Bugatti.
      “I went from selling luxury items to wearing them on the red carpet. I have millions of followers and I’m the woman of the most-followed man in the world.”
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      She is mum to their four-year-old daughter Alana and is pregnant with twins.
      The footballer has three other children, whose mothers are not publicly known: 11-year-old Cristiano Jr and twins Mateo and Eva, four.
      Georgina teases a rags-to-riches story but the show’s first two episodes barely scratch the glossy surface.
      Ronaldo was first accused of raping Kathryn Mayorga — who waived her right to anonymity — in a Las Vegas hotel 12 years ago.
      He settled out of court, paying her $375,000 in 2009, although the former model and schoolteacher later claimed she had signed a deal under duress.
      Last year a judge dismissed her attempt to sue Ronaldo for £56million over leaked documents.
      The striker has consistently denied the claims, saying in 2018: “Rape is an abominable crime that goes against everything that I am and believe in.”
      Similarly overlooked in the Netflix documentary is Georgina’s uncle Jesus Hernandez, who branded her “evil” for not telling him where his late brother Jorge, her dad, is buried.
      Jorge died in 2019.
      He said: “I’ve written on Cristiano’s Facebook, ‘You’ve got the most evil woman at your side’ and, ‘If you want to know, contact me, I will tell you’.”
      Streering well clear of those difficult topics, the doc instead revels in displays of dizzying extravagance.
      Georgina opens the doors to their homes in Turin — where Ronaldo played for three seasons from 2018 with Italian giants Juventus — and Madrid, plus their private jet and £5.5million yacht.
      The first time I went to Cristiano’s house, I’d get lost every time I went to the kitchen. It would take me half an hour to get back because I didn’t know the way.Georgina Rodriquez
      She says it took a while to get used to his opulent lifestyle, including the £4.8million pad in Madrid he bought when he signed for Real in a then-world record £80million transfer in 2009.
      The mansion, in the super-expensive La Finca residential estate, has indoor and outdoor swimming pools, a gym and a football pitch where Cristiano Jr is seen honing his footie skills.
      A glimpse at the showroom-style garage reveals a fleet of supercars including two Rolls-Royces, Ferraris and a Bugatti.
      Georgina says wistfully: “The first time I went to Cristiano’s house I’d get lost every time I went to the kitchen for water.
      “Sometimes it would take me half an hour to get back from the living room because I didn’t know the way. It was so big. Since I was a kid, I’d been used to living in small apartments.
      “After half a year, I got to know where everything was.”
      “After half a year, I got to know where everything was.”
      Now settled in as the lady of the house, Georgina is seen instructing an interior designer on a makeover to make the decor “more homogeneous”, saying: “Don’t mix patterns with marble, with lights. Don’t get plastic flowers. Don’t get new books.”
      Their £40million property empire also includes a mountainside mansion in Turin, with two adjoining villas, which became home when Ronaldo agreed his £100million switch to Juventus.
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      Filmed before Ronaldo’s return to Manchester United last year, which saw the family relocate to this country, Georgina reveals she dreads the prospect of another move.
      She says: “I love living in Turin. Everything is close. If we want snow, we go to the snow.
      “If we want a more cosmopolitan day, we go to Milan. If we want sea we go to Monaco.
      “Staying in Turin depends on many things but mostly on Cris. I don’t ask for much in that sense because at the end of the day, I’m happy at home.
      I went from selling luxury items to wearing them on the red carpet. I have millions of followers and I’m the woman of the most-followed man in the world.Georgina Rodriquez
      “I work from home, I take care of my children and they are super-happy wherever we go because we have the resources to get them into the best schools and the best extra-curricular activities. But I would like to stay a little longer.”
      Georgina is seen flying to Paris on the couple’s jet, the interior of which features leather sofas and monogrammed pillows, to visit the studio of designer Jean Paul Gaultier.
      There, she delights in trying on dresses for a trip to Cannes.
      Proving she has become more than accustomed to the lifestyle, she says: “The jet makes travel easier. If I had to be in an airport for two hours with Cristiano, I’d go insane. I’d rather not travel.”
      She hosts a Grand Prix weekend in Monaco on board their 90ft yacht, named CG Mare, inviting her “darlings” — a tight-knit group that includes pals from her Gucci days and big sister Ivana.
      The gang were summoned, we learn, with a last-minute text,
      “You always have to have your bags ready with my sister,” says Ivana.
      “You never know what the next surprise will be. If you blink, you miss out on the adventure.”
      Other jaw-dropping moments include Georgina’s chat with a travel agent about their forthcoming summer holiday, when she reels off a list of requirements for their private villa.
      These include “many rooms and a private pool, easy access to the dock for a smaller boat and a piece of land to walk with the kids and not have to leave the villa to take them out for a stroll”.
      She adds that a gym is not necessary because if there’s a spare room, “we’ll bring the machines”.
      Georgina is perhaps most passionate discussing her wardrobe of designer clothes, shoes and bags.
      I don’t consider myself a phenomenon but I do consider myself a fortunate woman because I know what it is to have nothing and I know what it is to have everything.Georgina Rodriquez
      She enthuses: “I love Hermes, I love Gucci, I love Prada. It’s so feminine. I love Louis Vuitton. I love Decathlon! I love Nike. I love all brands. I have a very unique style.
      “They’ve tried to change my style many times but if I don’t feel like myself, I don’t wear it. I don’t want to go out there insecure.”
      Georgina seems to have resisted hiring a nanny and does the school run herself . . . albeit with a security guard driving the car.
      She says: “I’m thankful I have the freedom that I don’t have to get up at 7am and get home at 9pm like many mums. I have the economic means that I can stay home.
      “I’m aware I have the opportunity to look after the kids myself. They mean everything to me.”
      Originally from Argentina, Georgina grew up in the Spanish region of Murcia and always had a “strong maternal instinct”.
      Remembering her childhood, she says: “Before going to school, I would play with my little kitchen and the cribs.
      “I would leave them ready so when I came back I would take them for a stroll around my minute house. They were well looked-after.”
      Ronaldo says the children are his “whole life”, adding: “They are something I always dreamed of — having a big family.
      “I’m really, really happy, knowing (Georgina) is the ideal person to give our kids a good upbringing and educate them, love them and care for them.
      “With four kids, three of them are basically toddlers and if you don’t have a mother to support you in that way, even if you’re the best dad in the world, I think you end up falling short.”
      When it comes to the kids, Georgina is keen to depict their daily life as normal.
      I love Hermes, I love Gucci, I love Prada. It’s so feminine. I love Louis Vuitton. I love Decathlon! I love Nike. I love all brands.Georgina Rodriquez
      She says: “We’re like any other family. We have breakfast together, Cris goes to training, I get ready whatever needs to get ready.
      “If I have to take care of the house, I’ll do that, or a vacation, a trip, a future career project, my children.
      To me, my home is my temple, a place to wind down, I have the peace I need there.
      “I feel a sense of family, I’m valued, spoiled and loved. Sometimes I think ‘Man, I’m so happy’.”
      She adds: “I don’t consider myself a phenomenon but I do consider myself a fortunate woman because I know what it is to have nothing and I know what it is to have everything.
      “When I was little, I used to dream of having a wonderful family, building a home.
      “I used to dream of a Prince Charming by my side. And now I have one, with wonderful kids who give me so much love.
      “And yes, I can say, ‘Dreams do come true’.”

      Soy Georgina (I Am Georgina) is on Netflix from Thursday Jan 27.

      Georgina says: ‘When I was little, I used to dream of having a wonderful family, building a home. I used to dream of a Prince Charming by my side. And now I have one’Credit: BackGrid
      Georgina says: ‘I love Hermes, I love Gucci, I love Prada. It’s so feminine. I love Louis Vuitton. I love Decathlon! I love Nike. I love all brands’Credit: BackGrid
      Georgina says: ‘We’re like any other family. We have breakfast together, Cris goes to training, I get ready — whatever needs to get ready’
      Recalling the early days of their romance, when Ronaldo picked her up from her job as a sales assistant at a Gucci store in Madrid, Georgina says: ‘I’d get there on the bus and leave in a Bugatti’Credit: EPA
      In the Netflix doc Georgina opens the doors to the couple’s homes in Turin and Madrid plus their private jet and £5.5million megayachtCredit: Instagram / @georginagio
      Georgina is pictured on the stairs of a private jetCredit: Instagram
      Cristiano Ronaldo’s partner Georgina Rodriguez fumes over cucumbers in Netflix documentary teaser More