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    World Cup 2022 fans face prison is they try to bring pork, porn or sex toys into Qatar as list of banned items revealed

    FANS heading to the World Cup could face prison time if they try to bring pork, porn or sex toys into Qatar. The Government’s official website has made clear to travellers how strict the country’s rules are with less than a week to go before the tournament.
    Pork is among the list of items travellers cannot take into QatarCredit: Getty
    England fans are preparing for a different World Cup than they are used toCredit: Getty
    England and Wales fans will be travelling to the Middle East nation in their numbers in the follows days as the build-up to the World Cup begins.
    Around 4,000 Three Lions fans and 3,000 supporters of the Dragons will be present alongside thousands of other football followers from around the world.
    Qatar has spent the last year preparing for the huge influx of fans.
    And the World Cup promises to be like no other with strict laws governing Qatar that could come as a shock to some Brits.
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    The UK Government’s updated foreign advice page has given travellers all the info they need.
    This includes the list of banned items that could land you prison time if you tried to bring them into Qatar.
    The list contains things such as alcohol, sex toys, pornography and pork.
    Brits are also reminded about the drinking laws in the country, with fans only allowed to drink in designated areas.
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    Travellers are also warned about offensive public behaviour which could land them in trouble.
    The foreign advice reads: “Swearing and making rude gestures are considered obscene acts and offenders can be jailed and/or deported.
    “Take particular care when dealing with the police and other officials.”
    The website also makes reference to the way couples should behave in public.
    It warns: “Any intimacy in public between men and women (including between teenagers) can lead to arrest.”
    And Brits are reminded of Qatar’s expectation of clothing in public.
    The foreign advice said: “You should dress modestly when in public, including while driving. Women must cover their shoulders and avoid wearing short skirts.
    “Both men and women are advised not to wear shorts or sleeveless tops, when going to government buildings, health care facilities or malls.”
    Controversy has followed Qatar since it was awarded hosting rights of the 2022 World Cup.
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    Activists and campaigners continue to voice their concern over the country’s record on human rights and views on homosexuality.
    Qatar kick the tournament off when they play Ecuador in the opening game on Sunday.
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    Benjamin Mendy claims he asked ‘rape victims’ directly if they wanted to have sex ‘to avoid dates or conversation’

    BENJAMIN Mendy claimed he asked his alleged rape victims if they wanted to have sex to avoid dates or conversation, a court heard. The Manchester City footballer, 28, was asked about his attitude towards sex at the time the offences are said to have taken place.
    Benjamin Mendy was asked about his attitude to women todayCredit: Andy Kelvin / Kelvinmedia
    Mendy said: ‘I was trying to be more direct’Credit: Andy Kelvin / Kelvinmedia
    Mendy said: “I was trying to be more direct to avoid conversation or go on dates.
    “That’s why I was quick and direct if they wanted to have sex, to avoid all that.”
    Timothy Kray KC, prosecuting, during a second day of cross-examination at Chester Crown Court, put it to the Premier League player that he does not see women as individual people and thinks normal rules do not apply to him so he gets it “terribly wrong” in believing they are consenting to sex.
    Mendy admitted he regrets his partying lifestyle and told jurors he is “crazy” and that his life was like being on a “fast train” that kept “going and going” until he was arrested and had time to think in jail.
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    The 28-year-old French international is accused of being a “predator” who turned the pursuit of women for sex into a game, regularly going clubbing in Manchester before holding “after-parties” where young women were invited back to a city centre apartment or his Cheshire mansion and sexually assaulted.
    He denies rape and sexual assaults on six women and told the jury any sexual contact was always consensual.
    One rape complainant has claimed Mendy told her having sex with him was a “privilege” and he had had sex with 10,000 women.
    Mr Kray asked Mendy: “You didn’t really see them as people, just things to be used for sex.
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    “That’s how you did see them and how you would get it terribly wrong about whether they were consenting or not?”
    Mendy replied: “No.”
    The jury heard that, during the pandemic, the flat Mendy rented in Manchester and his home, The Spinney, in Mottram St Andrew, Cheshire, were used for lockdown-busting parties, to prey on young women.
    Mr Kray continued: “Did you think the rules did not apply to you? You had parties because you had this lust for sex?”
    Mendy said: “No. At the time I was just partying. I was not thinking that well.”
    Mr Kray said: “You were a danger to women, weren’t you? Because you did not see any consequences of breaking really important rules?”
    Mendy said: “No, never. Having a social life, I did lots of things.”
    The jurors were shown a CCTV clip of Mendy in a nightclub, dancing with women and holding his crotch.
    Mr Kray said: “That’s what you thought about at the time – what’s in your pants – and you had sex with them no matter what they thought.”
    Mendy denies seven counts of rape, one count of attempted rape and one count of sexual assault against six young women.
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    His co-accused, Louis Saha Matturie, 41, of Eccles, Salford, denies six counts of rape and three counts of sexual assault relating to seven young women.
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    Premier League star suffers serious groin injury from embarrassing reason, top doctor reveals

    A PREMIER League star suffered a serious groin injury from “vociferous sex”, a top surgeon has revealed.The ace even showed him the unusual position in which he picked up the injury.
    A Premier League ace has picked up a groin injury performing an unusual sex actCredit: Getty
    He had to have a keyhole op and was keen to not share the detail with his manager.
    In an exclusive interview, Professor Aali Sheen, 51 — known as The Herniator because of his expertise fixing hundreds of sports stars’ groin injuries — has lifted the lid on it all.
    One Prem ace needed surgery after a coughing and sneezing bout.
    Prof Aali, from South London but now based in Manchester, has a book out called The Painted Surgeon.
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    He has treated over 3,000 sports patients and often sees players from the likes of Liverpool and Chelsea.
    He told The Sun on Sunday: “Groin injuries all come about from twisting and turning but it can happen in unusual circumstances sometimes.
    “One top Premier League player was sent to me by his club doctor.
    “He had serious pain in his groin and he told me he’d been having hard and vociferous sex with his partner.
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    “He was graphic about what happened and even showed me the position he suffered it in, which was unusual but helpful.
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    “I operated on him and he was fully fit again in four weeks.”
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    Benjamin Mendy ‘told cops he was shocked at arrest for raping woman’ and said ‘I didn’t try to stop her leaving’ mansion

    MANCHESTER City’s Benjamin Mendy told police he was “shocked” at being arrested for rape, a court heard.Mendy, 28, was interviewed by police multiple times in relation to a number of rape and sexual assault allegations, Chester Crown Court was told.
    Benjamin Mendy arrives at Chester Crown Court todayCredit: Andy Kelvin / Kelvinmedia
    The Manchester City player’s ongoing trial sees him charged along with his co accused Louis Saha Matturie with multiple rapes and sex assaultsCredit: Andy Kelvin / Kelvinmedia
    The Premier League footballer and his friend and ‘fixer’ Louis Saha Matturie, 41, deny all charges at their trial, now in its 12th week.
    The footballer gave a number of prepared statements to detectives followed by “no comment” interviews on instruction by his solicitor, the court heard.
    Timothy Cray KC, prosecuting, read the prepared statement Mendy gave in relation to the first of the young women he is alleged to have raped.
    The woman, aged 24, claims Mendy raped her three times at his home in Mottram St Andrew, Cheshire, in October 2020.
    Mendy said in the statement he had been out for a few drinks to a bar with Matturie and others in Alderley Edge near his home and met some girls who were invited back to his house.
    While there he saw one girl using her phone, which visitors had been instructed not to do, to video his home.
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    Mendy told police: “I asked her to delete the video. She gave me her phone and I deleted it.
    “As I did so a photo of her with no clothes on came up on screen. She said she had more photos of her like that and we agreed to go upstairs to my bedroom so she could show me more.”
    In his bedroom Mendy said she showed him more naked photos and took her top off and they started kissing.
    Mendy said the woman gave him oral sex and agreed they would “play around” but she did not want to go any further.
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    Later she left with another girl and he ended up having sex with one of the 24-year-old’s friends from the bar, who stayed the night in his bed.
    He told detectives: “I’m shocked to be accused of rape and false imprisonment. All sexual activity between me and her was completely consensual.
    “I did nothing to prevent her from leaving.”
    Mendy gave a further three prepared statements to police in relation to separate women he had allegedly raped where he told detectives the sex was consensual.
    He denies seven counts of rape, one count of attempted rape and one count of sexual assault against six young women.
    Matturie, of Salford, denies six counts of rape and three counts of sexual assault relating to seven young women.
    Both men say if any sex did take place with women or girls it was consensual.
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    None of the women involved, as sexual assault complainants, can be identified.
    The trial was adjourned until Friday morning. More

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    Benjamin Mendy’s ‘fixer’ took teen girl, 17, on ‘date to Nando’s before asking her about his penis size’

    A FRIEND of Premier League footballer Benjamin Mendy raped a teenage girl after a first date at Nando’s, a court has been told.Louis Saha Matturie told the then-17-year-old he was a football agent and, after the meal, took her to his flat, exposed himself and asked if he had the “biggest d***” she had seen, Chester Crown Court heard.
    Louis Saha Matturie at Chester Crown Court where he is charged with multiple rapes and sexual assaultsCredit: Andy Kelvin / Kelvinmedia
    Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy also faces several chargesCredit: Andy Kelvin / Kelvinmedia
    Manchester City defender Mendy, 28, and his pal and “fixer” Matturie, 41, deny a series of rapes and sexual assaults.
    The jury watched a police interview of the last of 13 complainants, who told officers about the alleged rape between July 22 and August 30, 2012.
    She said she saw Matturie while clubbing in Manchester, swapped numbers with him and arranged a date at the chicken restaurant.
    She said he later drove the pair to his south Manchester flat, where they sat on a bed and kissed before he took his penis out.
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    “He just had it out, fully exposed,” she said.
    “I just remember saying, ‘No. I don’t want to have sex.’
    “I wasn’t really feeling it. I didn’t really fancy him.
    “I just remember him wanting to have sex. I felt like I had to have sex with him because he had it out.
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    “I just thought, ‘It’s got to this stage now.’ I felt obliged.
    “I remember him saying, ‘Is this the biggest d*** you have ever seen?’
    “And I remember looking at him and saying, ‘No.’
    “Like, I’m disgusted and numb. Repulsed.”
    The woman said she went to the toilet, cried and texted her mum to say she would be back soon.
    Matturie later drove her home.
    After news of Mendy and Matturie’s arrest last August, the woman said a friend sent an article about it to a group chat on her phone.
    She told officers: “I thought, ‘Oh, my God!’ I felt sick and knew that I needed to say what I know.
    “I just replied and said, ‘I went on a date with him once.'”
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    Earlier, the court heard from a friend of another woman, 18 at the time, who alleges Matturie sexually assaulted her at the home of a footballer in Sheffield in 2016.
    She said Matturie was the organiser of parties in Manchester, sometimes involving footballers, and contacted young women through Snapchat and Instagram.
    She said there would be “no more” than five men at the events, with 10 or 15 girls invited and around 10 parties held during lockdown at a flat near Manchester city centre.
    After Mendy’s arrest, she said Matturie rang her.
    She told the jury: “He said, ‘Don’t believe what’s in the newspapers. These are girls, not women’ – something along those lines – and he’s told his boys to keep their heads down.”
    Prosecutors say Mendy is a “predator” who “turned the pursuit of women for sex into a game”, while Matturie allegedly had the job of finding young women for sex.
    Mendy, of Mottram St Andrew, Cheshire, denies seven counts of rape, one count of attempted rape and one count of sexual assault against six young women.
    Matturie, of Eccles, Salford, denies six counts of rape and three counts of sexual assault relating to seven young women.
    Both men say if any sex did take place with women or girls it was consensual.
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    None of the women involved, as sexual assault complainants, can legally be identified.
    The trial was adjourned until next Monday morning. More

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    ‘I think Tyson Fury wants to have sex with Anthony Joshua’ – Chisora makes bizarre claim about ‘obsessed’ Gyspy King

    DEREK CHISORA has bizarrely joked Tyson Fury “wants to have sex” with Anthony Joshua.Del Boy believes AJ is living in Fury’s head “rent free” because of how much the Gypsy King talks about him.
    Tyson Fury and Derek Chisora will face off on December 3rdCredit: Richard Pelham / The Sun
    Chisora has bizarrely joked Fury ‘wants to have sex’ with AJCredit: Splash
    Fury was vocal in calling out Joshua as the pair tried to agree to a fight, even posting hourly updates at one point, trying to coax AJ into a fight.
    In the end WBC champ Fury claimed AJ missed his deadline to sign a contract for a fight.
    So instead a trilogy bout with Chisora, 38, has now been confirmed for December 3rd.
    And Chisora has already started the mind games ahead of their third encounter, by joking that Fury is “obsessed” with Joshua.
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    He told iFL TV: “I think Tyson, mentally, physically, he wants to have sex with AJ because AJ’s been living in f***ing Tyson’s head for the last f****ing ten years for rent free.
    “Every day [it’s] ‘what’s the bodybuilder doing? He don’t want to fight, oh why, why?’.
    “He’s got a thing for AJ. He fancies AJ. I don’t blame him, AJ’s a good looking boy.”
    Chisora went on to say that Joshua’s name was the first thing to come out of Fury’s mouth when the pair sat down together.
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    He continued: “We sat down, the first thing he said, AJ came out of his mouth.”
    And Del Boy concluded: “Do you understand? The guy is obsessed with f***ing AJ.”
    Fury frequently took to social media to send Joshua messages in which he referenced him as a “bodybuilder” as he tried to coax AJ into a fight.
    In one message, Fury blasted: “AJ, where are you mush? Time is ticking.”
    The Gypsy King continued: “AJ I’ll make it nice and quick for you! I’ll do it inside six rounds so you can get out of there in one piece and go home and have a nice little night out on Sunday.
    “Nice and quick, in and out, get paid and out you go.”
    A different message saw Fury boom: “Sign the contract AJ you little p***y. Sign the bloody contract p***y boy.”
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    Fury has now downplayed his chances of ever coming to blows with AJ inside the ring.
    But he has revealed he could fight another TEN TIMES before finally hanging up his gloves for good.
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    Woman ‘had sex with Jack Grealish and sexual activity with Benjamin Mendy after being raped by third man’

    A WOMAN had sex with Manchester City’s Jack Grealish and “sexual activity” with team-mate Benjamin Mendy after she was allegedly raped by a third man, a court heard yesterday.She told police that she had been at a nightclub with the two players and Louis Saha Matturie in August last year.
    A woman had ‘sexual activity’ with Benjamin Mendy, pictured, before being raped by another man, a court heardCredit: Andy Kelvin / Kelvinmedia
    They all travelled to Mendy’s mansion in Prestbury, Cheshire, for an afterparty.
    The woman said she was raped by Matturie after he offered to take her to buy some vodka from a nearby shop.
    She told officers that after arriving back at Mendy’s home, she had spent “hours sitting on the sofa in the living room” chatting with two girls and one of Grealish’s friends.
    At Chester crown court, she was asked by Mr Matturie’s barrister, Lisa Wilding KC: “Did you have sex with Jack Grealish?”
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    She said: “Yeah.”
    “Do you have a memory of that?” the KC asked.
    She said: “I don’t know what room it was in.
    “I am sure we had sex.”
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    She also admitted she later got into bed with Mendy and they engaged in sexual activity but did not have sex, which the court heard she did not tell police about originally.
    Mendy, 28, denies seven counts of rape, one count of attempted rape and one count of sexual assault — all relating to six women.
    Matturie, 41, of Eccles, Salford, denies six counts of rape and three counts of sexual assault allegations relating to seven women.
    Trial continues.
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    Photographer claims Mike Tyson ‘tried to grab my breast’ during shoot but he insists they were in sexual relationship

    MIKE TYSON’S former photographer has claimed that the legend tried to grab her breast in the 1980s.Award-winning snapper Lori Grinker , 65, made the claim during her new pictorial book, ‘Mike Tyson,’ which includes a collection of photographs from the boxing star’s teenage years into the 1990s.
    Mike Tyson’s ex-photographer has claimed that the legend tried to grab her breast in the 1980sCredit: Splash
    Lori Grinker made the claims in her new bookCredit: Instagram
    In the book’s preface, she wrote: “Mike could be very sweet and gentle when he was feeling it, and not very sweet or gentle when he wasn’t.
    “He once tried to grab my breast, and when I pushed him away, he got angry and threw my light meter in the snow.
    “He had a somewhat spoiled side and, being the champ, grew accustomed to getting his way.”
    However Tyson, who pockets £500k-a-month from his cannabis empire, has not denied the story, instead he is saying that the pair were in a consensual sexual relationship when he was “around 17” and she was in her mid 20s.
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    The Daily Mail states that Grinker informed them that the then “immature teenager” Tyson never tried anything like that again and they continued to have a professional relationship.
    But Tyson’s representatives told them: “In this day and age it’s unfortunate that Ms. Grinker was not more careful with her words omitting the fact that she was in a sexual relationship with Mike Tyson when he was a minor with almost a decade age difference.”
    Grinker then stated that Iron Mike, 56, was inaccurate in his claim.
    Then in a separate email to the Mail, Tyson’s spokesperson indicated that the pair, who met when he was 13, started their supposed relationship around 1983.
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    They stated: “He was around 17 and had sexual relationship (sic) with her on & off until about 21. He had sex with her also when he was champion in Atlantic City.”
    Tyson’s spokeswoman initially described the former heavyweight as a “minor” in the claimed relationship, although they went on to explain that “minor is generally legally defined as a person under the age of 18.”
    The Mail added that if “the alleged affair did occur when Tyson was 17, it would not have violated New York State consent laws enacted in 1965.”  More