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      I met Harry Kane and Jordan Pickford playing Fortnite – now they give me thousands to buy them designer gear

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      HIS knack for finding limited edition and sold-out clothing for top footie stars has seen him nicknamed the Garms Dealer.At just 20 years old Sam Morgan has more than 1,500 big names in his phone including England midfielder Jack Grealish.
      Personal shopper Sam Morgan and regular customer Pogba show off Paul’s haulCredit: sammorgan/Instagram
      Sam with Man City ace Jack GrealishCredit: sammorgan/Instagram
      The young entrepreneur’s business is so successful that he now has his own Channel 4 show, Garms Dealer, where Premier League players chat all things fashion and challenge him to deliver designer outfits in less than 24 hours.
      Among his finds are a £7,300 Prada jacket for Crystal Palace attacker Wilfried Zaha, a £1,600 Saint Laurent jacket for West Ham midfielder Declan Rice, and £1,500 vintage 1993 Chanel sunglasses for Grealish.
      Man City’s record British signing reveals on the show how he likes to spend some of his £300,000-a-week wages on eccentric clothing.
      Grealish, who just signed a six- figure deal with online retailer boohooMAN, says: “People say I am confident on the pitch, I’d say I’m the same off it. I like wearing ‘out there’ clothes.”
      The 26-year-old footie ace is on his way to becoming the new David Beckham thanks to his changing haircuts and quirky fashion sense.
      The Birmingham-born ace’s wardrobe staples include flowery tracksuits, colourful bucket hats and ultra-bright label hoodies all thrown together.

      And Grealish relies on Sam to make sure his purchases are “legit” and that he nabs exclusive lines before anyone else.
      Other big names to hire Sam to fill their wardrobes include Tottenham striker Harry Kane, Man United midfielder Paul Pogba, Man City ace Kevin De Bruyne and Arsenal captain Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
      Personal shopper Sam doesn’t stop at clothes either — he can get hold of luxury bags and watches and organise private jets and last-minute bookings at top-end restaurants.
      His talents have even seen him become friends with some of his famous clients, who have invited him to their multi-million pads to play table football and pool.
      Sam says his ability to hustle goes back to his school days.
      He said: “I’ve always been selling. When I was in year seven, I’d come home with three or four pounds and it is the same now — but on a much bigger scale.”
      His clothes-selling business started when he bought a batch of Kanye West’s sought-after Yeezy trainers and sold them on for a profit of £5,000 via Instagram.
      The wheeler dealer’s contact book then expanded through word of mouth.
      After Arsenal reserve player Cohen Brammall, now at Lincoln City in division one, followed Sam on the social media site, he offered to find him clothing.
      He soon found more senior players and stars from Premier League teams were lining up to use Sam’s services.
      I’ve played with Harry Kane and Jordan Pickford. All these players have become clients from playing Fortnite.Sam Morgan
      He has known one of his clients, Rice, since the West Ham player was in the under-18 squad and went to watch him at this summer’s Euro championship with the midfielder’s brother.
      But it was Spurs ace Dele Alli that really drew in the A-listers.
      Sam said: “Dele introduced me to multiple England players. It just went from one to player to another player, and as long as you provide a good service you’re set.”
      Another way he managed to secure Everton goalie Jordan Pickford as a client and fill up his contacts is the online video game, Fortnite, where players can talk to one another.
      Sam said: “I’ve played with Harry Kane and Jordan Pickford. All these players have become clients from playing Fortnite.”
      The middle man is also the aces’ lucky charm, claiming strikers tend to score on the weekend he sells them clothes.
      One such star was Pogba, who is known for his garish haircuts and clothes.
      Two days before France beat Croatia at the 2018 World Cup final, Sam told the player to pay on the day of the match and Pogba went on to score the team’s third goal.
      Sam later hand-delivered several Gucci jackets and vintage glasses to the legend’s hotel room in Paris where they posed for a celebratory selfie.
      He also has clients outside of sports, including rappers and a sheikh who ordered a hard-to-get Rolex.
      Sam agreed to find the watch as long as he could deliver it in person so the billionaire promptly lined up a private jet to fly him in style.
      On The Garms Dealer, Grealish is super-excited about the designer items Sam has sourced for him, especially some sunglasses. He describes the pair as “rascal” and a Chrome Hearts cap as “ledge”.
      Aces’ £33,700 haul . . .
      JACK GREALISH ordered a £1,100 Louis Vuitton jumper, two Gallery Dept hats for £800 and four pairs of vintage glasses worth £2,320.
      Total: £4,220.
      DECLAN RICE bought a Saint Laurent jacket for £1,600, two Dior hoodies together priced at £2,350, Dior trainers for £810 and Givenchy sneakers for £495.
      Total: £5,255.
      WILFRIED ZAHA purchased a £1,100 Amiri tracksuit “for chilling”, Prada tracksuit £2,020, Palm Angels tracksuit £700, Yeezy foams £1,760 and Prada jacket, of which there were only two in the UK, at £7,300.
      Total: £12,880.
      PIERRE-EMERICK AUBAMEYANG has ordered a £4,200 Louis Vuitton Prism backpack and Amiri hoodie and shorts for £1,700.
      Total: £5,900.
      PAUL POGBA once ordered Korean brand 99%IS trousers at £1,000, £400 Rhude T-shirts, and another time a pink Amiri leather jacket worth £2,000, Dior B22 trainers worth £980 and Amiri ripped jeans that retail around £1,000.
      Total: £5,380.
      Man City ace Jack models for boohooMANCredit: BOOHOO
      Sam with World Cup winner and former Arsenal ace Mesut OzilCredit: sammorgan/Instagram
      Wheeler dealer Sam with Arsenal captain Pierre-Emerick AubameyangCredit: Refer to Caption
      Dior B22 trainers worth £980, Gallery Dept hat £380, Louis Vuitton Prism Backpack £4,200, Amiri tie dye hoodie
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      I had to delete Twitter because of racist trolls – these people need help, says Jermaine Jenas

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      HIS good-natured grin and expert insights have made him a favourite with fans of TV’s Match Of The Day.But now Jermaine Jenas has told for the first time of the shocking racist abuse he was subjected to while commentating during Euro 2020, which led to him calling the police.
      Footie star Jermaine Jenas reveals for the first time of the shocking racist abuse he was subjected to while commentating during Euro 2020Credit: Flicker Productions
      The laid-back man and former Tottenham Hotspur midfielder, even called the policeCredit: PA:Press Association
      The former footie ace and One Show host is urging social media giants to clamp down on trolls.
      Jermaine has joined forces with the Football Policing Unit — set up in conjunction with the Home Office — and has spent the past 12 months researching racism for a new Channel 4 documentary, sharing the frustrations of the country’s elite footballers.
      The former Tottenham Hotspur midfielder even came face to face with a generic online abuser on Hunting The Football Trolls – after two trolls who had personally abused him, personally, were rules out on grounds of mental health. 
      Jermaine, 38, says: “These unregulated platforms, where people can be anonymous, have become like the black market of racism. I got a lot of abuse commentating during the Euros, which wasn’t nice.
      “Pretty much any game I did, I was trending on Twitter afterwards — a lot of it was racial abuse, some of it just abuse for no reason. It got to the point — after the third game, I think — where I had to delete Twitter. It wasn’t a healthy place for me to be.
      “I’m quite a laid-back person, quite relaxed and I have strong self-belief. But for the first time, I found myself acting a bit differently, being a lot more sensitive when people were trying to have a laugh or a joke with me. After the tournament, there were a couple of tweets that the police highlighted — ones that were directly racist.

      Learn and change
      “So I’m currently going through the process of trying to get some form of punishment for those two people. The police have tracked them down, and I’ve given my statement.
      “Unfortunately these things take time, so who knows if and when they will be charged. There does need to be more of a deterrent — be it a fine, a custodial sentence or some sort of reform, giving education and help to these people, so they can learn and change for good.”
      In the run-up to Euro 2020, as lockdown hit and fans were kept out of stadiums, reported online abuse against footballers soared by 48 per cent. England’s own success at the tournament, where they made their first final in 55 years, was unquestionably soured by fighting in the ground, and the horrendous trolling of young stars Marcus Rashford, Bukayo Saka and Jadon Sancho in the wake of their penalty misses.
      Depressingly, Jermaine reveals he recently tried lodging a formal complaint with Instagram after being labelled a “half-caste c***” — but, staggeringly, was told the language did not break rules.
      He adds: “I went through the whole process, sent an email, everything, after someone called me that — it rocked me. I hadn’t heard that term since I was maybe eight years old. And Instagram came back to me and said it wasn’t against the community guidelines.
      “This is why so many players are so disillusioned. I spoke to Kyle Walker in the documentary and so many footballers are feeling very disheartened — they don’t feel empowered to do anything.
      I’m currently going through the process of trying to get some form of punishment for those two people. The police have tracked them down, and I’ve given my statement.Jermaine Jenas
      “They think, ‘I get racial abuse but what’s the point in me taking action, taking nine hours out of a couple of rest days, when nothing is going to happen?’
      “And from the clubs’ perspective, it deters them from wanting to get involved as much. They want their players ready for a Saturday afternoon. They want them fit and mentally ready to go.
      “They don’t want them in police stations giving statements every two minutes.”
      In the documentary, Jermaine meets an unidentified 22-year-old man to quiz him on his previous online racial abuse. It makes for uncomfortable viewing.
      The star suffered a career-ending cruciate ligament rupture in 2014 while playing for Queens Park Rangers. As a gifted box-to-box midfielder, the ace made his full Three Lions debut in 2003 — the same year he was named PFA Young Player Of The Year.
      He helped Tottenham win the Carling Cup in 2008, and went on to play 21 times for his country.
      Monkey chants
      In his heyday, Instagram was in its infancy. But the abuse he received was every bit as sinister, especially after a North London derby. Incredibly, Arsenal fans at his mobile phone provider would dish out his number to fans who would then ring and leave vile messages.
      He explains: “Somebody at the phone company where my mobile was registered at the time would hand out my number, and it would spread among opposition fans. I’d finish the 90 minutes, look at my phone and have 20 voicemails saying, ‘Jenas, you black this’ or ‘Jenas, you N-word’ — every kind of racial slur you can think of. I had to keep changing my number, it was awful.”
      He also reveals his worst ever footballing experience was in 2004 when playing for England against Spain at the Bernabeu stadium. England lost 1-0 but the game will be remembered more for the monstrous monkey chants hurled at the team’s black players “every time we touched the ball”.
      He adds: “That was the worst feeling being on a football pitch. I just thought, ‘Why are we here?’ ” Naturally, Jermaine agrees with players taking the knee before games and applauds current England players including Tyrone Mings, Raheem Sterling and Rashford for speaking so eloquently about the subject.
      “I’ve never been so attached to a team as I am this current England team,” he says. Everything they do, everything they stand for, the way they play. They have big shoulders, they take responsibility and they are quite happy to discuss social issues or big racial issues.
      “And we have a manager who gives them the freedom to do that. I actually love this team.” After formally announcing his retirement nearly six years ago, Jermaine has become a household name thanks to a regular slot on MoTD.
      Last year he made the successful transition from football pundit to bona fide broadcaster — and showbusiness celebrity — after landing a co-hosting role on BBC’s The One Show alongside Alex Jones.
      Surreally for a lad who grew up on a tough council estate in Nottingham, he has gone on to interview stars including Dolly Parton, Jennifer Aniston and Annie Lennox.
      ‘I look up to Gary’
      But Jermaine credits his “forward-thinking” parents, Dennis and Lynette, for helping him stay grounded — and sane in the face of racial abuse.
      He explains: “I was the son of a black dad and a white mum, and she’d be called a n****er-lover in the street when I was a child, walking by her side.” Of his former semi-professional footballing father, Jermaine adds: “He told me the best way to ignore the taunts in the stands was to score a goal. He was more a Martin Luther King than a Malcolm X.”
      Jermaine, a keen home cook and gym devotee, has been tipped to replace MoTD host Gary Lineker should the ex-England striker decide to hang up his microphone.
      Jermaine’s a big fan of the 60-year-old Leicester legend, and credits him with helping his career.
      Chatting from his home in London, where he lives with wife Ellie and their three children, the devoted family man says: “Gary is somebody I’ve always looked up to as a presenter, and someone I’ve loved working with.
      “I remember one of my first One Show gigs, I had a bit of a sticky moment and I knew I could have handled it better, and Gary reached out, messaged me and said, ‘Look, just a bit of advice; if this happens again, try doing this’.
      Match Of The Day is the biggest job on television, and if I ever got the opportunity of course I’d say yes.Jermaine Jenas
      “He’d tell me what he used to do when he was first starting out, and I always appreciated that. He went out of his way to help me. Gary is like the Des Lynam of my era, let’s make him feel nice and old!
      “Match Of The Day is the biggest job on television, and if I ever got the opportunity of course I’d say yes. When Gary decides to call it a day, I’m sure the BBC will have a look around and decide who’s the best fit for the job.
      “Obviously I’d be absolutely delighted if it was me. But Gary’s not going anywhere.”

      Hunting The Football Trolls: Jermaine Jenas, airs Thursday at 10pm on Channel 4.

      The former footie ace and One Show host, 38, is urging social media giants to clamp down on trollsCredit: Flicker Productions
      Jermaine, here with wife Ellie, says ‘It got to the point — after the third game, I think — where I had to delete Twitter. It wasn’t a healthy place for me to be’Credit: Rex
      The star, here as a pundit on Match Of The Day, reveals ‘Gary is somebody I’ve always looked up to as a presenter, and someone I’ve loved working with’
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      Jack Grealish’s girlfriend Sasha Attwood is Exceptional, Elegant and very Expensive, says first footie WAG Suzi Walker

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      BRITAIN’S first footie Wag has tipped Jack Grealish and Sasha Attwood to become the new king and queen of the game.Suzi Walker says Sasha reminds her of a young Victoria Beckham, oozing the classic E-Type Wag characteristics: “Exceptional looks, elegance and expensive taste.”
      Britain’s first footie Wag compares Jack Grealish’s girlfriend Sasha Attwood to Victoria BeckhamCredit: INSTAGRAM/SASHA ATTWOOD
      Suzi Walker, was married to ex-England and Spurs goalie Ian Walker for 13 years, she says Sasha oozes the classic E-Type Wag characteristics
      But Suzi, who was married to ex-England and Spurs goalie Ian Walker for 13 years, had a warning for the £100milion Man City ace and his model partner about the fickle nature of life in football’s spotlight.
      She said: “One minute they treat you like Pele, the next minute they treat you like you play for Peckham Town.”
      Speaking to The Sun on Sunday, Suzi added: “If they can keep their feet on the ground, there’s no reason why Jack and Sasha can’t be the new king and queen of footie.
      “Sasha is very, very pretty and Jack is very good looking with his headband and cheeky grin. He’s got it all going on and between them, they’ve got the whole shebang — exceptional looks, elegance and expensive taste.“At the start of our relationship, Ian was new on the scene and very good-looking, like Jack Grealish.
      “I can see the similarities, like I can see the similarities with Beckham. Maybe it’s the floppy hair.
      “Half of me thinks, good luck to them, but half of me thinks you have no idea what you’re letting yourself in for. Being a superstar football couple is a mad journey.”

      ‘Robbie Savage’s wife never said hello to me’
      The pair have been dating on-and-off since meeting as teens in Solihull, West Midlands. Online clothes giant BooHoo this week handed 25-year-old Sasha a major deal to promote the fashion brand after it signed up Jack, 26, in June.
      The Sun this week hailed the couple as Sash and Jacks, revealing how they have everything to become as big as the Beckhams.
      Suzi’s roller-coaster Wag journey started in the mid-Nineties, when her childhood sweetheart Ian broke into the Spurs team and they were soon being pictured on red carpets.
      Today Suzi, 50, lifts the lid on her experiences of the Wag world — including the cliquey nature of the England major ­tournament bubble, being shunned because Ian played badly and how the Leicester City’s players’ lounge was once the most hostile to visit.
      She broke on to the scene in 1994, when Ian was playing for Tottenham and she was an aspiring model. She said: “I wasn’t really interested in football, but I loved chatting with all the other Wags in the players’ lounges. It was an incredibly glamorous life of lots of jewellery, lots of bags and lots and lots of glamour, which at that age I really craved.
      “But things went ballistic when Ian got into the England squad. While we were pretty well known, the absolute king and queen of the scene were David and Victoria. Everyone was desperate to be accepted into their inner circle.
      It was an incredibly glamorous life of lots of jewellery, lots of bags and lots and lots of glamour, which at that age I really craved. Suzi Walker
      “Victoria and I got on well, so we were invited to loads of parties at Beckingham Palace. Their house was beautiful and they were amazingly glamorous affairs. You’d spend all day getting ready, choosing your best dress and getting your hair, nails and make-up done.
      “We went to Brooklyn’s naming party and loads of murder mystery events and had lots of evening dinners too during the international tournaments like the Euros in Portugal in 2004.
      “Victoria was really down to earth and good fun, although all the other Wags got very competitive about getting an invite.”
      But it wasn’t always champagne, long lunches and days in the salon. If a Wag’s husband had a bad game or was dropped from the England squad or their club side, life very quickly became much harder. Suzi said: “When that happens, you’re straight out of the loop, and only one or two of the wives have ever contacted me since.”
      “I remember Ian once let a shot bounce over him in an England match, which they lost, and one of the other wives came over to me and said, ‘We would have won if it wasn’t for your husband’. I was gobsmacked, as I would never say things like that to anyone. Most of the wives were nice, but you did get a bit of bitchiness.
      “If a new player joined, I’d always make an effort to welcome their partner, like I did with Dennis Wise’s wife when he joined Leicester, but not everyone was as friendly.” And she claimed: “When I was there, Robbie Savage’s wife didn’t say hello or acknowledge me. Not even in the toilets. Because of the atmosphere, Leicester was always a player’s lounge that girls wanted to avoid but I remember Spurs being the friendliest. They were always so lovely there.”
      It’s tough living in that sort of spotlight. Suzi Walker
      Suzi, who divorced Ian in 2007 and married bank trader Mark ­Pitman three years ago, said one of the stand-out moments for her was going to Portugal with the other Wags while Ian played for England in Euro 2004.
      She said: “It was a great bonding experience. We went out to Italy before as a group to get to know each other then got really close in Portugal, spending the days by the pool in our fancy ­bikinis or having spa treatments and massages and shopping, all marshalled by Victoria Beckham.
      “She was definitely in charge then. Coleen Rooney was there but was just a kid. She was so innocent and young when I first met her. She was still a teenager and has this lovely Liverpool accent. I got on really well with Joe Cole’s wife Carly when we were there. One thing I remember was how it could become quite cliquey.
      “Sometimes you had to wait to find out if you’d been invited to dinner. If you hadn’t had a message by 5pm it meant you hadn’t.” But Suzi’s advice to Sasha and Jack is to enjoy the high life while they’re riding the crest of the wave — as it can all come crashing down.
      She said: “It’s fun when you are their age, with lots of lovely homes and lovely cars and holidays. But it’s tough living in that sort of spotlight. You’re always worried as a Wag that someone even prettier will come along at any moment, so all I’d say to Sasha is, ‘Be yourself, be kind — don’t be ruthless and don’t get ideas above your station’.
      “I hope Jack’s got good people around him or they’ve got no chance. But Jack and Sasha seem very much in love and a sweet couple so I hope they stay together. But only time will tell.
      “Maybe there will be a wedding in a couple of years. If not, we’ll all be back here talking about where it all went wrong. Good luck to them.”
      Below, Suzie rates how some other star Wags and players stack up . . . 
      Here Sasha Attwood watches on as Manchester City unveil new signing Jack Grealish to fans at Etihad Stadium on August 9, 2021Credit: Getty
      Suzi says of the pair, here pictured in 2014, ‘Jack and Sasha seem very much in love and a sweet couple so I hope they stay together. But only time will tell’Credit: TWITTER/JACK GREALISH
      Jack & Sasha
      WAG RATING (5): Handsome boy, and she is a very beautiful model. It doesn’t get any better.
      GLAM FACTOR (5): She looks immaculate, and what girl doesn’t love Jack’s hairband look? My daughter Cameron thinks he is gorgeous.
      SUZI SAYS: “Half of me thinks, ‘Wow they’ve got such a bright future’, and the other thinks, ‘You’ve no idea what you’ve got coming’.”

      David & Victoria Beckham
      WAG RATING (5): Still the reigning champions but maybe not for long with Jack and Sasha on the scene.
      GLAM FACTOR (5): Victoria is always immaculate and her style is amazing. David is an incredibly good-looking guy. They’re a tough act to follow.
      SUZI SAYS: “They were always super- nice to us, but we’ve lost touch now.”

      Steven & Alex Gerrard
      WAG RATING (4): Steven’s not brash and arrogant but is a good family man. Alex is a lovely person and stunning.
      GLAM FACTOR (5): Alex is beautiful inside and out. They’re not quite Posh and Becks but definitely not far behind.
      SUZI SAYS: “Steven was very focused during tournaments, so we didn’t spend much time on big nights out.

      Ashley & Cheryl Cole
      WAG RATING (3): Their relationship didn’t last but they were both gorgeous. I can’t give them top marks as I’m not sure Ashley has big charisma.
      GLAM FACTOR (5): It’s impossible not to give Cheryl a five.
      SUZI SAYS: “I met Ashley a few times but he was with someone else by then. I think Cheryl could have done better.”

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      Hardcore Fulham fans told me they’ve got my back – now I am fourth reserve goalie, says brave Rhys Porter

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      IT is not only Fulham players rallying behind trolled disabled footballer Rhys Porter. The 13-year-old became an internet sensation when stars from the Championship side ran to celebrate with him after going 1-0 up against Bristol City last Saturday. 
      Rhys was born with cerebral palsy, a condition that affects muscle control and movement, but his dream has always been to play football just like his friendsCredit: Arthur Edwards / The Sun
      Rhys Porter, 13, became an internet sensation when stars from the Championship side ran to celebrate with him after going 1-0 up against Bristol City last SaturdayCredit: Reuters
      But what happened after the game was perhaps even more exciting for the youngster, who hit headlines after a TikTok video on him playing for his football team drew thousands of vile messages online.
      His mum Kelly has told how a gang of “serious-looking” Fulham fans raced down the train to find him on the way home after the match.
      She says: “They were the real hardcore fans that don’t wear any Fulham stuff. 
      “They were carrying their plastic pints, banter in full flow. Suddenly, one of the guys tells everyone in the carriage that Rhys, ‘Is a legend’.
      “He said the whole of Fulham’s Hammersmith End has got his back. Anyone picking on Rhys in the street is going to need to watch out. He’s one of the lads, wheelchair or not. 
      “Then this bloke said, ‘If your mum can’t take you to football, I’m going to come and get you’.”
       At the family’s home in Hillingdon, Middlesex, Rhys breaks into a wide smile and says: “It was brilliant!” 

      Kelly, 41, an aviation company HR worker, adds: “That probably meant as much to him as any of the many messages of support he’s had because that’s what he strives to be.
      “He wants to be walking, he wants to go in the pub, he wants to go to the football and do things which he considers normal.
      Loved the freedom
      “That moment on the train shows his message is getting across — ‘I’m in a wheelchair but there is nothing different about me. I’m still a lad. I still like football, it’s just my legs aren’t working’. 
      “And that is what he tried to say all along — ‘Why can’t I be included?’.”
       Rhys, an only child, was born with cerebral palsy, a condition that affects muscle control and movement. 
      He was unable to walk and, aged seven, developed epilepsy, but the seizures appear to have stopped.
      Rhys has always been football crazy, at first supporting dad Adam’s team Arsenal, before switching allegiance to Fulham six years ago.
      But his dream has always been to play football just like his friends.
      Kelly says: “I remember when he was about three or four, he asked, ‘Can you buy me these boots because all the football players play really good in them? If you buy me these boots maybe my legs will work’. Those things were heartbreaking.” 
      Rhys says: “I always wondered why I couldn’t play for a normal team. I always wanted to play for the school and win a cup. When I was little the coach kept saying I couldn’t play.”
      His dream of being a player came true in 2013 when he and pal Tom Manning, 16, joined Feltham Bees, a football team for disabled youngsters. 
      Sometimes Rhys would play outfield in his electric wheelchair but he loved the freedom of going in goal on his hands and knees.
      But a six-second video of him making a save during a Surrey pan-disability tournament he posted on TikTok in June sparked a torrent of cruel comments.
      Rhys named as reserve keeper for the Fulham squadCredit: Arthur Edwards / The Sun

       Adam, 43, who reduced his hours as a builder to be Rhys’s carer, says: “Some of the hurtful comments were from kids, but much of it was adults and that boiled my blood even more.”
      Kelly adds: “We knew it was adults by the names he was called, like ‘vegetable van der Sar’. Van der Sar is a player from our era, a child wouldn’t use that name. 
      “Another said, ‘Read these comments before you come to the pub tonight, they’re really funny’. 
      “Somebody else wrote, ‘Oh look at him, he is doing an Eriksen’, on the day Christian Eriksen had a cardiac arrest on the pitch playing for Denmark in the Euros.”
      Adam says: “When he saw all this hate, Rhys got in a right state, screaming the place down, saying, ‘I don’t want to play football any more. Why are people so cruel?’.
      “One thing we’ve never done is shield Rhys from the fact that life is harsh. If you tell him the truth he takes it on the chin, listens and then deals with it the way he wants to deal with it.”
      So the family sat down together and read every vile comment. They even found photos online of some of the people behind the slurs.
      Kelly says: “In the beginning we set out to drown the negative comments with positive ones. I dropped emails to Fulham and other clubs.
      “Arsenal commented, ‘Really great save, Rhys’. But off the back of the positivity, there were comments like, ‘Why the hell is a club commenting on a kid that has just jumped a centimetre?’. 
      “I don’t know if it was a good thing or a bad thing because it was just making it more and more negative.”
      ‘I’m me, just me’
      Then, instead of censoring the offenders, TikTok removed Rhys’s video for “attracting too much hate”. It later backed down.
       Rhys decided to fight back against the haters with positivity. He raised nearly £20,000 for disability charity Scope by doing 20 saves a day and encouraged friends to take part in Scope’s Make It Count challenge with their own fundraising activities.
      Rhys also created his own campaign #BU, which stands for Be You, to encourage everyone to include those who are disabled or different in their lives and activities.
      Kelly says: “Being a teenager in a wheelchair he has noticed that you don’t often get invited with the rest of the class to hang around in the park and do all the things boys of his age do.” 
      In his bedroom, surrounded by football memorabilia, Rhys designed a logo to go on hoodies, which he sells to raise more money for Scope.
      His #BU logo shows stick people who are disabled, black, gay and white all high-fiving each other. 
      Rhys would love England and Arsenal star Bukayo Saka — who was a victim of trolls during the Euros — to wear one. He says: “I want to try to make a difference for disabled people. You should have the same opportunities and chances as anyone else would. 
      “You shouldn’t have to be anyone different, be compared or face bullying or torment for who you are. I may not be perfect but I’m good enough. I’m me, just me.”
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      PM Boris Johnson sent a handwritten letter telling Rhys how sorry he was to hear about the nasty comments.
      The PM added: “Please don’t let it bother you and carry on doing everything you enjoy.”
      Last week Rhys went to Wembley to play wheelchair football with the stars of the England Cerebral Palsy team, who have now invited him to St George’s Park, the national training ground. 
      And Fulham’s players were so impressed with how Rhys has beaten the bullies that they invited him to train with them last week. 
      ‘Every boy’s dream’
      Centre back Tim Ream says: “People think players are role models and inspirations. What Rhys is doing is more of an inspiration than anything any of us can do.”
      At Fulham’s Motspur Park training ground, Rhys gave a #BU hoodie to striker Bobby Reid.
      The youngster says: “I told Bobby ‘if you don’t score on Saturday against Bristol then I’ll take the hoodie back’. When Mitrovic scored, I saw Bobby wave at me and the players all came over, jumped the barrier and give me a big hug. It was amazing.”
      The game ended 1-1 but by then video of the goal celebration had gone viral. Through the early hours of the following morning, Rhys’s phone pinged non-stop.
      Kelly says: “I woke up in the night thinking, ‘What the bloody hell is that?’. 
      “His phone was lighting up with thousands of messages of support from all over the world — even someone from Peru. He has had the week of his life, every boy’s dream.”
      And the dream has carried on. 
      At their Craven Cottage ground on Wednesday — where Fulham beat Swansea 3-1 — Rhys was listed in the match programme as Goalkeeper Number 4. 
      Breaking into that massive grin, he said: “Three injuries and I’m on!”
      Rhys makes the save in the TikTok video that led to trolling
      In his beloved Fulham shirt with Adam and KellyCredit: Arthur Edwards / The Sun
      Rhys looking right at home with his Fulham teammatesCredit: Arthur Edwards / The Sun
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      Inside the glitzy world of Jack Grealish and girlfriend Sasha Attwood who are fast turning into the new Posh and Becks

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      WHEN it comes to football and fashion, Posh and Becks have always been top of the league.But now the seemingly untouchable golden couple of David and Victoria Beckham have a serious rival. . . Sash and Jacks.
      In the space of just a few months, Jack Grealish’s star status has tuned meteoric
      His glamorous girlfriend Sasha Attwood has become something of a star herself
      Jack Grealish, 26, and his glamourous girlfriend Sasha Attwood, 25, could be the Greal thing when it comes to footie’s new super couple.
      Jack got a glimpse of the Posh and Becks-style mania coming his way at this summer’s Euros.
      When he threw his England shirt into the crowd after a match a gang of grown men clamoured to grab it.
      Fast forward to today and the swaggering playmaker — who became the most expensive British footballer in history following his £115million move from Aston Villa to Manchester City — is so mobbed by fans that he is having to move out of his swanky apartment.
      And his model girlfriend Sasha has just landed her first major fashion deal.
      WALKING SAME PATH
      In the space of a few short months, following his historic transfer, Jack’s star status has turned meteoric.
      A source said: “Jack had been living in a nice apartment in Manchester but recently fans have started to congregate outside.

      “It’s all very innocent and those who have been waiting around adore Jack and want to get pictures and autographs. But for safety he has now relocated.”
      It comes on the back of Sasha revealing she had received up to 200 death threats a day from jealous and abusive fans, some as young as 13, during the Euros.
      The source added: “Looking at the bigger picture, it’s not ideal that people know their building, especially given the threats Sasha has endured.”
      It is easy to see the similarities between this golden pairing and Goldenballs and Victoria.
      Jack — who wears the No7 shirt for England, just as Becks did — even wears his hair in a style his idol used to sport.
      Jack said: “He’s iconic. Everyone in England loves Beckham.
      “That said, my hair wasn’t inspired by him. It’s long and during games, when I get sweaty and my hair gets wet, it would end up going over my face too much. That’s why I started wearing a headband.”
      Jack and Sasha now find themselves walking the same path as Posh and Becks, having moved from their £1.7million home in Worcester to Manchester, where Becks played for United for 11 years.
      But it is off the pitch that the young couple, who met as teenagers at school in Solihull, West Mids, are resembling Posh and Becks.
      He’s iconic. Everyone in England loves Beckham.Jack Grealish
      Yesterday we revealed Sasha has just scored a big-money deal as the face of online clothing brand, Boohoo.
      Jack had already been snapped up to promote Boohoo Men.
      Known for wearing rolled-down socks on the pitch, the lad certainly has his own style.
      And like that other footballing style icon, Jack also admits he has worn some questionable outfits in the past. He particularly regrets a “yellow and blue T-shirt and then some pink sunglasses, which weren’t the best, but I suppose that’s what I thought was in style at the time”.
      Becks, who famously wore a sarong, once admitted he regretted “most of” his fashion faux pas, adding “but they were right at the time”.
      Jack and Sasha might not be wearing Posh and Becks-style matching leather outfits (yet), but they are heading in the right direction.
      One source told The Sun: “Jack and Sasha are being jokingly called the new Posh and Becks by some of his mates because of their fashion deals.
      “He is the man of the moment in football but he’s got plenty of female fans too, and with Sasha, those around them think they could become a new power couple. They’ll be laughing all the way to the bank.”
      ENDLESS OFFERS
      When Jack appeared on the cover of SWM, Sports World Magazine, this summer, his signature locks slicked back, smouldering into the camera, he could have been Becks’s double.
      The world is at his feet and the offers will continue to pour in for all manner of deals — just as they did for Becks.
      The 46-year-old has racked up endorsements with the likes of fashion brand Armani and high street firm H&M, as well as Haig Club whisky, plus his £113million lifetime contract with Adidas.
      Jack is now one of the most searched-for sportsmen in the UK, with research showing there are more than 200,000 Google searches of his name every month.
      He has a sponsorship deal with sports giant Nike and, even before his megabucks move to Man City, he was at the centre of a four-way bidding war with rivals Adidas, Under Armour and Puma.
      Sasha, who has 96,000 followers on Instagram, is signed to Industry Model Management.
      Posh was 23 when she first met David in the Manchester United players’ lounge in 1997, and as one fifth of pop sensations the Spice Girls, she was more famous at the time.
      Jack and Sasha are being jokingly called the new Posh and Becks by some of his mates because of their fashion deals.
      There were secret dates in car parks and snatched liaisons at hotels.
      When they finally went public, everyone wanted a slice of the couple.
      There was a frenzy over their £1million wedding the following July, which was splashed across the pages of a glossy magazine.
      Jack and Sasha have been able to let their on/off relationship grow in private. Now, like Posh and Becks before them, their romance will be played out in public.
      We revealed in August that Jack’s profile on celebrity dating site Raya was still active, despite the fact that a month earlier, Sasha had been cheering him on at the Euros final at Wembley.
      He also set tongues wagging for being seen with ex-Love Islander Ellie Brown on a night out in Manchester, but she was quick to explain they had simply bumped into each other.
      Sasha cleared up their relationship status this month when she posted a series of loved-up selfies of the pair on Jack’s 26th birthday, and posted: “Happy birthday my babe, loving you always.”
      But even Posh and Becks had their troubles. Remember Rebecca Loos?Becks’s former PA claimed they had an affair, although he always denied it.
      And while we all like to think of Becks as a clean-cut national treasure, even heroes slip up.
      In 2019 he was banned from driving for six months for using his mobile at the wheel.
      Jack was also slapped with a nine-month ban and fined more than £80,000 after pleading guilty to two counts of careless driving in March and October 2020.
      If there is one other element to becoming the new Posh and Becks, it’s having famous pals.
      Last month Jack was pictured with Ed Sheeran, who is also close pals with the Beckhams.
      They have also rubbed shoulders with some of the world’s biggest names, from the Kardashians to Elton John to Prince William.
      Jack, on the other hand, hangs out with Love Islanders and Corrie actor Andy Whyment.
      But now they’re on their way to inheriting the Beckhams’ crown, Jack and Sasha will start to move in very A-list circles.
      Jack and Sasha have even been called the new Posh and BecksCredit: Getty
      Fans think they could scoop Posh and Becks’ title of Britain’s favourite power coupleCredit: PA:Press Association
      Jack wears the No7 shirt for England, just as Becks did
      They’ve even styled their hair the same
      Sasha sported a stylish outfit while supporting her boyfriend at the EurosCredit: Louis Wood News Group Newspapers Ltd
      Victoria’s iconic 2004 look inspired plenty of Wags
      The sporty pair even look similar when working out
      Just like Jack, David was spotted shirtless on an afternoon run
      Man City ace Jack Grealish’s model girlfriend Sasha Attwood stuns in tight pink latex bunny outfit More

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      Troy Deeney says dad drove him around as a child with a bloke locked in the boot

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      THREE people made me who I am today.My mum, Emma Deeney, the strongest person I know.
      Troy Deeney says: ‘I am wary of saying I had an unhappy childhood because there were a lot of great things in it, but there was alcohol and there was ­violence’Credit: The Sun
      Deeney as a young player at WalsallCredit: PA:Empics Sport
      My dad, Paul Anthony Burke, who decided I take my mum’s surname because of his reputation around Birmingham.
      Even though my dad could be ­violent and abusive towards me and Mum and was in and out of jail most of his life, he looked after me, taught me how to be a man, how to play football and I knew he loved me and I loved him.
      Colin Hemmings is my biological father.
      He left me and Mum when I was a baby and I’ve had very little to do with him since.
      Until recently, just hearing his name made me feel angry.
      Rejection like that leaves a mark on a kid and on a man — and I’ve been trying to deal with it most of my life.

      In the period of my life when I drank too much, a decade or so ago, I thought I drank because I couldn’t deal with death
      But the root of my unhappiness actually came a lot ­earlier.
      I think of Colin Hemmings as a sperm donor. Nothing more.
      That was the only contribution he made to my life.
      And when my father passed away, from cancer at 47, who was the DJ at his wake? Colin Hemmings.
      It was incredibly weird.
      He came up to me a couple of times and I was thinking, “This is really not the time.”
      A lot of things I’ve done are because of rejection.
      I put this hard mask on, this tough guy who fights and brawls and went to prison and says the Arsenal players don’t have “cojones”, all because I don’t want to be rejected again.
      I am wary of saying I had an unhappy childhood because there were a lot of great things in it, but there was alcohol and there was ­violence.
      I was lucky because the man who I will always call “Dad” took care of me when my biological father rejected me.
      My dad was also a career ­criminal and, yes, there were ­occasions when he was violent towards Mum and me.
      Dad spent his life in and out of jail.
      When I was a young player at ­Walsall, Dad came to watch me play at Northampton Town.
      My dad could be ­violent and abusive towards me and Mum and was in and out of jail most of his life, he looked after me, taught me how to be a man, how to play football and I knew he loved me and I loved him.Troy Deeney
      When I came out of the ground he was waiting for me in a blue Mercedes.
      I knew he didn’t have a blue Mercedes.
      He didn’t have a car. He didn’t even have a licence. He had never passed his test. He had never taken his test.
      I assumed the Mercedes was ­“borrowed” but I got in and we set off down the M1.
      He had the music turned up loud and everything was cool and we chatted about the game.
      Then we stopped to get ­petrol. The music went off and I heard this banging coming from behind.
      “Don’t worry about that,” he said.
      “What do you mean?”
      “Look,” he said, “there’s someone in there but I’m going to drop him off in a bit.”
      He mentioned the name of a bloke who was a small-time drug dealer on the estate, Chelmsley Wood, eight miles east of Birmingham city centre.
      “What?”
      “He owes my pal some money so I’ve taken him on a little journey for the day,” Dad said.
      “I’ve fed him and that and he’s fine. We’ll drop him off later and I bet he pays.”
      There was me trying to make a career at Walsall and we are driving around with a bloke in the boot of the car.
      Rejection like that leaves a mark on a kid and on a man — and I’ve been trying to deal with it most of my life.Troy Deeney
      To him that was normal.
      I’ve seen him referred to as a drug dealer in some of the profiles written about me and maybe he did do a bit of that, but if he did it was only small-time.
      He sold knock-off stuff here and there, I think he probably acted as a kind of enforcer for people now and again.
      He didn’t care about the law.
      He ignored it and then, every so often, it caught up with him.
      He never wanted money. He enjoyed a tear-up. He enjoyed creating fear.
      But, despite everything, he was still my superhero. And he looked after me when I needed it.
      When my mum was 17 she worked as a carer at East Birmingham ­Hospital.
      There was a social club there and one Friday night a friend persuaded her to go to the disco there. That’s when she met Colin Hemmings.
      He was a hospital porter and a part-time DJ. He asked her to a party afterwards.
      He already had a baby with someone else but Mum didn’t know that until much later.
      After they had been going out for some time, Mum found out she was expecting me, and while she was pregnant he was offered a job as a DJ in Ibiza.
      There was me trying to make a career at Walsall and we are driving around with a bloke in the boot of the car.Troy Deeney
      Mum took me over there to see him for my first birthday but she soon found he had been ­seeing other women so she split up with him.
      I have only had two or three encounters with Colin Hemmings in my 33 years. He left my mum when she was 19 to fend for herself. That’s not a man to me.
      Has it caused me pain over the years? 100 per cent.
      I have spoken to psychologists about how that has impacted my life in regard to my children and why I used to drink so much.
      Some months later, Mum met Paul Anthony Burke at a house party.
      His way of chatting her up was taking her hand, ­putting a Rizla in her palm and making a spliff. Really romantic.
      He had only been out of jail for a few weeks after serving time for GBH.
      My dad did some bad things.
      And he did some bad things to me too but he took me on when my ­biological father didn’t want me.
      He looked after me, taught me how to play football, taught me how to defend myself, taught me right from wrong, taught me how to ride a bike, how to swim.
      Mum and Dad stayed together for eight years until eventually Mum had had enough. I don’t think it was the life of crime that wore her down, more the continued absences.
      When she tried to end the ­relationship he didn’t take it well.
      He looked after me when my biological father rejected me. He was a career criminal and he was violent. But he was still my superhero.Troy Deeney
      He told her that if she took me and my brother, Ellis, and sister, Sasha, he’d batter her in front of us. We were living at my nan’s in Stechford.
      One day, when I was nine, Mum came to pick me up from school but when I came through the gates I realised something was wrong.
      Dad was there and he was shouting and yelling. I hurried over to Mum’s car and got in the back seat with Ellis.
      She pulled away but Dad jumped in a white van and first tried to block us in then followed us, right on our back bumper the whole way.
      As we pulled up outside my nan’s, Dad leaped out of the van, ran over to our car and flung the doors open.
      He grabbed me and my brother and sister, marched us over to the van and locked us inside it.
      All we could do was stare out of the window at what was unfolding.
      Mum told me some of the rest. Dad jumped into her car and threatened her.
      He thought she had been laughing at him at the school. She had been smiling to a friend.
      Dad put his thumbs in the ­corners of her mouth and started pulling them so it stretched her face. “I’ll give you a f***ing smile,” he said.
      “You can have a Joker’s smile.”
      Then he got hold of her head and slammed it against the window. Mum’s brother, Uncle David, came out and remonstrated with Dad.
      He got out of the car and fronted up to Uncle David, who said he didn’t want to fight him.
      He grabbed me and my brother and sister, marched us over to the van and locked us inside it.Troy Deeney
      He got my mum and walked her to the house.
      It was a traumatic time for all of us.
      The council allocated us a new house.
      Mum was terrified Dad would find out where. We kept it a secret.
      About six months after they split, she went out with someone else.
      I stayed over at Nan’s with Ellis and Sasha.
      Dad came round in a taxi. He was wired, like he was hopped up on something.
      He loaded the three of us into the back. He had somehow managed to find out where we were living.
      We pulled up outside our flat.
      Mum opened the door and her expression turned to pure fear.
      He started going from room to room. “Who were you with last night?” he asked.
      “Have you spent the night on your own?”
      “Yeah, I have,” Mum said.
      “You’re a liar,” he shouted.
      He called Mum all the names under the sun. I was crying my eyes out.
      I told him to calm down but he was out of ­control.
      “I’m going to kill your mum,” he said to me and pointed to each of us kids in turn, “and then I’m going to kill you and I’m going to kill you and I’m going to kill you.”
      He began flinging punches at my mum.
      I tried to get between them and he punched me and knocked me over and hit Mum again.
      I got up and he punched me again.
      He said to Mum she had to take him back.
      Every time she said no, he hit her.
      I jumped up, getting in front and he hit me.
      That seemed to go on forever. It was mayhem
      Dad was wired. He said: ‘I’m going to kill your mum’ and pointing to us kids in turn: ‘Then I’ll kill you and I’ll kill you and I’ll kill you’Troy Deeney
      He picked Sasha up and flung her on a chair. It was mayhem.
      A friend of mine knocked on the door. That saved us.
      Dad let Mum answer the door but he was ­holding on to her hair to stop her running away.
      A woman next door called the police. They arrived quickly.
      One of the policemen pushed the door ajar.
      Dad slammed the door on his arm.
      Loads of police vehicles pulled up outside — two riot vans and four police cars, all for my dad.
      They forced their way in and ­wrestled him to the floor.
      “Look what these b******s have done to your dad,” he was saying. “All I wanted to do was see you.”
      It was an end of innocence for me. It destroyed my relationship with my dad for a few years.
      I forgave him for it but I never forgot.
      The first time he came to our house after he had beaten us up, I p***ed myself because I was so ­frightened.
      A year or so later I was chasing some kid because we’d had an argument.
      He climbed up on to a shed. As I was pulling myself up he kicked me in the face and I went flying backwards and landed hard on my elbow.
      I was in hospital for a week and every time I woke up Dad was ­sitting in the chair by my bed.
      He was there with me constantly.
      All the other stuff had gone because when I needed him most he was there.
      It was a strange dynamic. It’s probably why I’m so messed up now.

       Troy Deeney – Redemption: My Story is out on Thursday (Hamlyn, £20, ­octopusbooks.co.uk).

      Baby Troy aged oneCredit: Troy Deeney / Octopus Books
      Troy, his brother Ellis and dad Paul
      Footie star Troy’s hero is his hard-working mum Emma and he says she is the strongest person he knows
      Troy Deeney – Redemption: My Story is out on Thursday (Hamlyn, £20, ­octopusbooks.co.uk)
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      Former F1 champ Jenson Button on driving 1963 AC Cobra at Goodwood Revival

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      IF you had a classic car worth millions of pounds, you might go easy when taking it out for a spin.But Jenson Button will not be worrying about the odd dent when he races two irreplaceable motors this weekend.
      Former F1 Champ Jenson Button will be trying his hand at historic car racing for the first time at the three-day Goodwood RevivalCredit: Nick Dungan
      Goodwood Revival is a festival of classic cars and motorcycles which has been held on the Goodwood Estate for the past three decadesCredit: Times Newspapers Ltd
      The former F1 champ is trying his hand at historic car racing for the first time at the three-day Goodwood Revival in West Sussex, which starts tomorrow.
      Driving a Jaguar E-type and 1963 AC Cobra, he will be up against other top drivers in a Ferrari 250 GT — one of which sold for more than £30million — an Aston Martin DB3S from the 1950s and a Ford GT40, which once dominated the Le Mans 24-hour race
      Jenson, 41, told The Sun: “As a racing driver, you can’t think about damaging the car.
      “As soon as the visor closes you drive it as hard as you can.
      “You go for the win. If we are not winning we are not happy.”
      He has clearly not lost any of the love of speed which helped him become Formula One champ in 2009, in an era when F1 cars were more dangerous.

      Last weekend Jenson’s old McLaren team-mate Lewis Hamilton showed how car safety technology has moved on during a horror smash at the Italian Grand Prix.
      Lewis only got out of his Mercedes unscathed because of a “halo” bar around his head, after rival racer Max Verstappen’s car landed on top of him.
      Jenson said: “I didn’t have halos when I was racing.
      “A lot of people I raced against lost their lives because they didn’t have that technology.”
      But he reckons the crash will not affect how Lewis continues to compete with his rival.
      He added: “I think it’s good these two are going at it so hard, but at some point they are going to have enough respect for each other they won’t have a crash in every race.
      ‘YOU HIT THE BRAKE AND HOPE’
      “It’s great they have that fight, but we want to see them fighting on the circuit, not ending up in the gravel track.”
      Jenson is unlikely to face similar on-track aggression this weekend from his rival Goodwood drivers.
      Also racing will be comedian Rowan Atkinson, 66, in his 70-year-old Jaguar Mk VII and an 80-year-old Bentley Parkward Saloon, F1 legend Martin Brundle, 62, in a Mini and former Le Mans winner Jochen Mass, 74, in a Riley.
      Famous fans expected at the event include Howard Donald, 53, from Take That, and petrolhead AC/DC singer Brian Johnson, 73.
      Jenson is also a big fan of old motors, owning two beautiful Jaguars — a C-Type and an XK120.
      And he loves the thrill of driving without modern aids.
      He said: “It is old-school mechanical grit, which I think makes it fun. Seeing these cars on track, it is like dancing, there is a real flow to them going through the corners.”
      But there is a major downside.
      He added: “They also don’t stop, which is the worst thing and something I have to get used to.”
      In Sunday’s RAC TT Celebration race he will be driving a 1963 AC Cobra, once raced by the legendary American Shelby team that was the subject of 2019 Matt Damon movie Le Mans.
      Jenson said: “This thing, you hit the brake and hope it doesn’t get lost on the corner.”
      But first up tomorrow he will get behind the wheel of a Jaguar E-Type in the Stirling Moss Memorial Trophy.
      In both races he will tag team the drive with his childhood pal Alex Buncombe.
      Alex, 40, who has raced on the Goodwood circuit several times in the past, has warned Jenson there is, “No margin for error”.
      ‘IF YOU GO OFF, IT IS VERY DANGEROUS’
      He told his mate: “It’s an old-school circuit. If you go off, it is very dangerous.”
      Fortunately, both cars have been updated with modern roll cages so they are much safer than they were in their racing heyday back in the 1960s.
      Goodwood Revival is a festival of classic cars and motorcycles which has been held on the Goodwood Estate for the past three decades.
      Visitors dress up in fashion from the 1940s to the 1960s and there will be a vintage bike ride led by Olympic gold medallist Sir Chris Hoy, 45.
      Away from the race track there is also plenty to keep the big crowds entertained, with restoration projects highlighting the value of the “make do and mend” mindset.
      The idea of saving old cars rather than sending them to the junkyard is key to the Revival.
      There will also be DJs, a classic car auction, a hot rods parade, cocktails and an air display.
      Jenson said: “The atmosphere is a big thing with the Revival and that’s what I am excited about.”
      A PRICELESS PARADE OF SECOND-HAND CARS
      Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR ‘722’
      Driven to victory by Sir Stirling Moss in Italy’s Mille Miglia in 1958, it is priceless. And its owner has said it will never be sold. It will feature in a track parade at Goodwood. Speed: 166mphCredit: Alamy
      1964 AC Cobra
      Made by British company AC Cars, the Cobra was adapted by American car designer Carroll Shelby. Under the hammer they can go for more than £1million. Speed: 183mphCredit: Alamy
      Jaguar D Type
      Designed to impress at the Le Mans 24-hour race, a version of this British racing car won in 1955. It also formed the basis of the E-Type. One sold for £16million in 2016, a record for a Jaguar. Speed: 170mphCredit: Alamy
      Aston Martin DB4GT
      One of the most collectable cars in the British mark’s illustrious history. With just 100 ever going into production, they can fetch £1million at auction. Speed: 152mphCredit: Alamy
      Ford GT40
      These cars famously took the top three places at the Le Mans endurance race in France in 1966. Collectors are willing to pay up to £8million to get their hands on the right one.Speed: 216mphCredit: Alamy
      Ferrari 250GT SWB
      The late racing legend Sir Stirling Moss once said this Italian beauty is “perhaps the greatest road car of any make”. They have sold for £7million. Speed: 166mphCredit: Alamy
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      Cristiano Ronaldo may ditch stunning girlfriend Georgina just like he did me, says Natacha Rodrigues

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      A MODEL who claims she bedded footie superstar Cristiano Ronaldo behind his stunning girlfriend’s back warned her last night: “Keep a close eye on him in Manchester or he’ll drop you like he did me.”The 36-year-old soccer legend, who makes his Manchester United return against Newcastle on Saturday,  allegedly secretly messaged Natacha Rodrigues for two months before ­bedding her, not long after he met his partner Georgina Rodriguez, 27.
      Natacha has warned Georgina that Ronaldo may ditch herCredit: Peter Powell – The Sun
      Natacha said Ronaldo blocked her after they hooked up at his houseCredit: Peter Powell
      Now reality TV star Natacha, 25, has said it took her four years to get over the Portuguese forward after he blocked her from his life.
      Speaking to The Sun on Sunday, she said: “Cristiano dropped me like a brick and he could do the same to Georgina.
      “They say leopards never change their spots and professional footballers get a lot of attention from beautiful women who throw themselves at them. It will be the same in Manchester as it was in Europe.
      “Cristiano would be a great catch for anyone and Georgina must keep an eye on him if there’s to be trust between them and a future for them.”
      She added: “I was hurt by the way he dumped me by blocking me on Instagram after we slept together, and it still hurts now.
      “There’s always going to be a before and after in my life with Cristiano and the feeling there could have been more for us, even if we didn’t end up becoming boyfriend and girlfriend.”

      Man United’s £12.9million re-signing of Ronaldo — who this week became the greatest ever international goalscorer with 111 — is one of the biggest scoops in Premier League history.
      He is returning to the Reds after leaving in 2009, having made 196 appearances and scoring 84 goals during six years in Manchester.
      Today Natacha alleges that Ronaldo sent her racy texts praising her “beautiful” bottom, asking to “see it in the flesh” and handing her a baseball cap on the night of their tryst before ­messaging her: “Top secret, please.”
      She says she was first contacted by Ronaldo in 2015 when he was single after breaking up with Russian model Irina Shayk.
      Natacha sent him a snap of her bum on Instagram with the words “Enormous kiss”.
      She claims: “It was 1am and I did it as a joke. I never thought he’d reply. But at 6am he messaged me and things went from there. Looking back, I wish I hadn’t.

      “It was when I sent him a video of me twerking in my underwear that he said he wanted to see me in ­person. Cristiano always made it clear he liked my body.
      “He told me he loved my bum and wanted to see it personally.”
      When he asked the aspiring model her age and she responded that she was 21, he apparently said: “Great — brand-new with a good body.”
      Ronaldo allegedly invited Natacha to his flat in Lisbon on October 5, 2016, and later messaged, “Esse cuzinho”, which translates as: “This a**.”
      She claimed he cancelled at the last minute, saying he only had an hour to spare and wanted to be with her for longer.
      But  Natacha says he asked her to send more racy pictures, ­adding: “Send me a twerk — don’t forget.”
      Two days later he scored four goals for Portugal in a World Cup qualifier against Andorra.
      Natacha claims they  continued to message each other but it was only when the star was back in  his home town the following March   that they finally met up.
      Natacha sent him another picture of her bottom and says Ronaldo sent back a message saying: “Don’t be embarrassed. I love kissing bottoms.”
      He then “gave her the four-digit security code to his flat”.
      She alleged: “I couldn’t believe I was walking into Cristiano Ronaldo’s apartment.
      “My heart was racing but he was very nice and sweet and told me to act as if I was in my home.
      “I took my shoes off and poured myself a juice before sitting down next to him. We spoke about his apartment and where I was from.
      “I then took the lead, stood up, took down my trousers and bent over to show him my bottom. He smacked it and said he loved it.”
      Natacha, who has made a name for herself in her Portuguese homeland by appearing on a reality TV show called Love On Top, claimed to The Sun on Sunday in November 2017 how they had sex in March that year “everywhere but Cristiano’s bedroom” in his apartment overlooking Lisbon’s main boulevard Avenida da Liberdade.
      She says he then sent her the ­message: “I enjoyed it. We will see each other again one day. Top secret, please. Kisses.”
      Yet soon after, he blocked her calls and stopped all social media contact.
      It is not the first time he has faced  links to a woman whose bottom he was reportedly attracted to.
      In 2017, Brazilian “Miss BumBum” Erika Canela claimed to The Sun on Sunday how Ronaldo invited her round for dinner after chatting her up on WhatsApp.
      It came after he allegedly bedded another star of the beauty pageant, and Erika said: “Maybe he’s got a Miss BumBum fetish.”
      Natacha added that she hopes Ronaldo has now “settled down”.
      His girlfriend Georgina, who is expected to come to Manchester with him, gave birth to their daughter Alana Martina on November 12, 2017.
      The Spanish brunette is now a star in her own right, with 27million Instagram followers, while being a full-time mum to her first child and Cristiano’s three older children.
      ‘MISS BUMBUM FETISH’
      Natacha said: “I read Cristiano has re-signed for Manchester United and I’m happy for him. I think Georgina will want to and should move to ­Britain with him.
      “Despite what ­happened with us, I hope and pray they stay together and stay in love.
      “They seem to make the perfect couple and, despite everything, I think Cristiano could have changed as a person and a partner. His family has grown and he’s older and wiser.”
      Natacha confirmed she is still blocked on Instagram and has not had further contact with Ronaldo.
      She said: “Sadly, after ­people heard about my affair, I faced a social media backlash from people who didn’t like what happened and felt they could judge me.
      “My life has changed a lot since. I gave birth to a beautiful little girl called Lara Rose in January 2019 and I’m very happy.”
      And she said of Ronaldo and ­Georgina: “If they are happy together, and I’m sure they are, then I’m happy for them.
      “If Cristiano was my boyfriend I don’t think I’d trust him after what happened between us.
      “I’m just happy I’ve been a little part of his life, even though it didn’t end the way I might have wanted.”
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