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      I died for 8 minutes – but something special happened that day & gave me will to live, says footballer David Ginola

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      FOOTBALL star David Ginola thought he was in remarkably good shape when he agreed to play a charity match in Mandelieu on the south coast of France – even scoring a goal.But the celebrations suddenly turned to horror when David ­collapsed and “died” for eight minutes after his heart stopped.
      Footie ace David Ginola with girlfriend Maeva DenatCredit: BackGrid
      David is backing The Sun’s Save A Life In 15 Minutes campaign, in which we are calling on people to learn CPRCredit: Splash News
      Footie ace Ginola cooling down after a game in 2001Credit: News Group Newspapers Ltd
      His friend, fellow footballer Frederic Mendy, valiantly performed CPR, keeping the blood pumping to David’s brain until medics arrived with a defibrillator that sent a series of ­electric shocks through his body, helping his heart restart.
      David, 56, says: “When you are unconscious, you are at a crossroads, and there are two paths: Life or death.
      “Why I chose life, I don’t know, because I was unconscious. But I am a fighter.”
      David is speaking exclusively to back The Sun’s Save A Life In 15 Minutes campaign, in which we are calling on people to learn CPR.
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      February is the British Heart ­Foundation’s heart month and as the charity’s latest ambassador, David is promoting its free online tool, ­RevivR, which can teach CPR and defibrillation skills in just 15 minutes
      Only half of us say we would be able to perform CPR if a loved one had a sudden cardiac arrest, despite latest data showing that around 80 per cent of such attacks out-of-hospital happen in the home.
      ‘Life brings you gifts’
      There are more than 30,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in the UK each year and sadly fewer than one in ten people survive, often because those around them do not have the skills or ­confidence to perform CPR.
      David says: “At the match in 2016, a firefighter shocked me three times with the defibrillator then told my friend I was dead.
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      “She said if the heart doesn’t start again after three times, it is over — she was wrong.
      “But my friends could see I was fighting and told her to keep going.
      “She shocked me two more times and then my heart started again.
      “I met that firefighter a year later in Nice and she cried when she saw me.
      “She said it was like seeing a ghost.
      “I have to thank her and my friend.
      Maeva was introduced to David through mutual friends in a Cannes restaurantCredit: instagram
      David, pictured with Maeva and daughter Ever, says: ‘When your heart stops beating, they need to treat you as soon as possible’
      “The doctors said that if Frederic had not acted so quickly and performed CPR for over eight minutes, I would have been dead or left in a vegetative state as my brain was starved of oxygen.”
      One reason the former Tottenham Hotspur and Newcastle United player believes he came round was meeting his future ­girlfriend earlier that day.
      In a moment of fate, Maeva Denat, 38, was introduced to David through mutual friends in a Cannes restaurant.
      Less than an hour later, he left to play the fateful charity match.
      Model Maeva — who already has a daughter from a previous relationship — is now the mother of his five-year-old daughter, Ever, and the family live happily in the south of France ­having moved there from London during the pandemic.
      Fighting back tears, David says: “Life sometimes brings you gifts when you least expect it.
      “When I look at Ever, I realise that she wouldn’t be there if I didn’t choose to live.
      “That makes me full of joy and passion and affection because she is an amazing little girl who brings me joy. Sometimes she brings me to tears.”
      Christian Eriksen is helped by teammates after collapsing in 2021Credit: AFP
      Outwardly, the football legend seem­ed like the last person you would expect to suffer heart problems.
      But his mother Mireille died from a heart attack in 2005 aged 74, and dad Rene, now 87, had oper­ations to clear blocked arteries in 2003.
      And when it was later found that David’s arteries had been severely clogged, it was perhaps no surprise that he suffered a cardiac arrest in May 2016.
      It came just two months after he separated from his wife of 25 years Coraline, 54, the mother of his ­children, son Andrea, 31, and 28-year-old daughter Carla.
      After his heart was restarted, David was taken by air ambulance to a ­specialist cardiac hospital, Centre Cardio-Thoracique in Monaco where his blocked arteries were discovered.
      Surgeons performed a six-hour quadruple bypass.
      Thankfully, he was able to return to working as a TV host soon ­afterwards and by 2021 he was well enough to compete in a freezing Welsh castle on I’m A Celebrity . . . Get Me Out Of Here!
      David says: “When your heart stops beating, they need to treat you as soon as possible. So performing CPR becomes vital. The doctor was relieved because I had been dead for so long, and it was a miracle I had not suffered brain damage.
      We need to educate people so at least one person in every ­family knows first aid. You will probably never have to use it but the ­knowledge will let you react if something happens.David Ginola
      “I thanked him for saving my life, but he told me, ‘My job was to ­perform the bypass. The one that saved your life was the person that performed CPR. Without him you would be dead.’”
      David later watched aghast as ­Manchester United midfielder ­Christian Eriksen, now 31, collapsed with a cardiac arrest while playing for his native Denmark at the Euros in 2021.
      He was also commentating at St James Park when a Newcastle fan suffered a suspected cardiac arrest in the stands that October.
      David said: “Those two incidents brought back bad memories, obviously. The good thing was that the medical staff reacted very quickly so they could do the right thing at the right time.
      “And that’s why it’s so important to learn CPR and how to recognise a heart issue.
      “We need to educate people and at least one person in every ­family should know basic first aid.
      “You will probably never have to use it, but the ­knowledge will allow you to react if something happens at home or at work.”
      David suffered depression after his near-death experience as he questioned his life and why he had been brought back.
      He reflects: “Life goes on and time is a healer. I have a new girlfriend for seven years now and a baby who is going to turn five in ten days’ time.
      “Life continues and you have to go along with it.
      “On the other hand, I still sometimes look at the scar on my chest and it reminds me, I was a lucky guy. I think there must be someone up there that pushed me to stay, but I don’t know why. I still have so many questions I cannot answer.
      “When I introduce Maeva to people, I say, ‘This is my girlfriend and we met the day I died.’
      “You could make a movie script out of our relationship because it’s hard to believe but this could happen to anyone. I’m proof that it does.”

      David is backing the British Heart Foundation’s Heart Month and its partnership with Omaze, which is offering the chance to win a stunning £3million house in North London.
      The draw will help raise funds for BHF’s research into heart diseases.
      Find out more at omaze.co.uk.
      For more information about Heart Month, visit bhf.org.uk/heart-month-2023.

      What are the symptoms?
      A CARDIAC arrest is an emergency that usually happens without warning.
      If someone is in cardiac arrest, they collapse suddenly and will be unconscious, unresponsive, not breathing or not breathing normally – this may also mean they are making gasping noises.
      CPR – Call, Push, Rescue
      Without immediate treatment, the person will die.
      If you see someone having a cardiac arrest, phone 999 and start CPR.
       Q) WHAT causes a cardiac arrest?
      A cardiac arrest is caused by a dangerous abnormal heart rhythm (arrhythmia), cardiomyopathies (disease of the heart muscle), inherited heart conditions, heart valve disease, myocarditis, a heart attack, a severe haemorrhage, a severe drop in oxygen levels, electrocution or a drug overdose.
      Q) WHAT’S the difference between a cardiac arrest and a heart attack?
      A heart attack happens when the blood supply to the heart muscle is cut off. This is often caused by a clot in a coronary artery.
      A heart attack can lead to a cardiac arrest. It is important to get medical attention immediately by calling 999 for an ambulance if you have heart attack symptoms.
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      Dr Charmaine Griffiths, chief executive of the British Heart Foundation, says: “Every second counts when someone has a cardiac arrest, and knowing CPR could be the difference between life and death.
      “It only takes 15 minutes to learn with our free RevivR training tool – that’s a coffee break, half-time in the football or the time you might spend scrolling through social media. It could be the most important lesson you ever learn.”
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      Grimsby Town fans banned from taking inflatable fish to FA Cup showdown with Southampton

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      FOOTIE fans have been banned from taking inflatable fish to an FA Cup showdown. Grimsby Town’s Harry Haddocks have been given the hook by Premier League Southampton FC.
      Grimsby Town fans have been banned from taking inflatable fish to an FA Cup showdownCredit: Getty
      Harry Haddocks have been given the hook by Premier League Southampton FC
      Supporters from the fishing port are now trawling for another mascot for the fifth round clash on March 1.
      Many hit out on social media, calling the decision “joyless” and “boring”.
      One fan warned it would only encourage supporters to “organise something that will cause you a bigger headache”.
      Another wrote: “It’s a disgrace. This has always been seen as a bit of fun. It’s a real shame.”
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      Announcing the ban, League Two Grimsby, which expects 5,000 fans to make the trip south, said yesterday: “The club have today received confirmation from Southampton that Harry Haddocks will not be permitted at St Mary’s Stadium.
      “We share our supporters’ inevitable frustration at this decision but we know you will support us brilliantly in our first FA Cup fifth round tie since 1996.”
      The club added that Southampton had made similar refusals to other clubs and warned that any inflatables found inside the ground would be fished out.
      Grimsby supporters were hit with the same ban when the Mariners travelled to Barnet on the final day of the season in 2017.
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      That ban came despite them being allowed to take hundreds of inflatable fish to the fixture two years earlier.
      In response fans raised cash to pay for a mariachi band to attend the game. More

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      Tyson Fury’s plans to build dream £4million mansion knocked out by two species of bats

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      GYPSY King Tyson Fury’s plans to demolish a house and build a dream £4million mansion have been knocked out — by bats.The heavyweight world champion, 34, has given up on a six-bedroom home with swimming pool after two protected species were found roosting in a loft.
      Tyson’s plans to build a dream £4million mansion have been knocked out — by batsCredit: Getty
      Two protected species were found roosting in a loft
      He would have needed a special licence from Natural England before the work could be done because it is an offence to intentionally or recklessly disturb them.
      Fury would also have had to put bat boxes in nearby trees for the common and soprano pipistrelles.
      Instead, he and wife Paris, 33, have applied for planning permission to extend the eight-bed pad they aimed to pull down with a basement music room and games room.
      They also want to add a breakfast room, garden room and cinema to the home in the Cheshire village.
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      A garage and leisure suite, with a hot tub and plunge pool are also proposed.
      In a design statement, Fury’s planning agent said the leisure facilities were “incidental to the enjoyment of the dwelling house”.
      Fury and Paris currently live with their six children in a £1.7million home in ­Morecambe, Lancs.
      His move will take him closer to boxer brother Tommy and Love Island girlfriend Molly-Mae Hague, both 23, who have a £3.5million mansion nearby.
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      Planners at Cheshire East council are set to decide on the application in April. So far, no-one has objected.
      Fury’s agent said there was “no reasonable basis” to refuse as the proposals were too far from local homes to “impact on their amenities”.
      Tyson Fury has six children with wife ParisCredit: Instagram
      The heavyweight champion has given up on a six-bedroom home with swimming pool
      It’s an offence to intentionally or recklessly disturb the species of bats foundCredit: Alamy More

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      Marcus Rashford sets up security firm to protect pals’ assets after spate of raids on footballers’ mansions

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      MARCUS Rashford has set up a private security business after a spate of footie ace home raids.New firm MUCS Security was incorporated at Companies House last month.
      Marcus Rashford has set up a private security business after a spate of footie ace home raidsCredit: Getty
      Liverpool’s Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and pop star fiancée Perrie Edwards were victims at their Cheshire homeCredit: instagram
      The nature of business is listed as “private security activities”.
      Man United and England star Rashford, 25, was appointed sole director on January 23. It is his fifth private firm with the striker holding millions in companies.
      A source said: “Marcus is on red-hot form on the pitch this season. But he is also a bright lad, and is sniffing out off-pitch opportunities as well.
      “He has seen a gap in the market and, knowing Marcus, he will offer friends and teammates help through the company.
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      “Marcus already has several successful companies but is always looking for new business ideas.”
      We told last year how Rashford had ramped up his personal security and hired a minder.
      Current and former Man Utd and Man City players including Victor Lindelof, 28, Paul Pogba, 29, Jesse Lingard, 30, and Joao Cancelo, 28, have been targeted by North West burglary gangs.
      Liverpool’s Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, 29, and pop star fiancée Perrie Edwards, 29, were also victims at their Cheshire home.
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      MUCS Enterprises was set up in 2015 to control Rashford’s image rights and income off the pitch.
      Accounts show the firm’s latest profits were £2.7million.
      MUCS Properties, established in 2017, runs a £6million portfolio MUCS Developments is yet to trade while MUCS Investments’ accounts are due in the spring. More

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      Alex Scott breaks silence over decision to wear One Love armband at Qatar World Cup

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      FOOTBALL Focus host Alex Scott has broken her silence over her decision to wear the One Love armband at the World Cup in Qatar.Alex, who dates both men and women, wore it to show support for the LGBT community in the country – where same sex relationships are illegal.
      Alex Scott wore the One Love armband despite players being banned from wearing them at the Qatar World CupCredit: Pixel8000
      She wore the band as she covered England’s first game in Qatar, after the Three Lions were banned from doing so.
      Former Arsenal Women’s player Alex, 38, said: “We all woke up to the news of the armband being banned.
      “I remember being so sad.
      “I was standing with the kit man, Andy, looking out, just full of emotion.
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      “I said: ‘Andy, no one’s told me I can’t wear an armband’.
      He said: ‘Alex, you f***ing genius.’
      “No one knew anything.
      “I remember saying to Kelly who was going to interview me: ‘Kelly don’t say a word. All I’m doing is going to put this armband on and it’s going to speak for itself.’
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      “And that’s exactly what I did. This little thing and what it represents.”
      Alex said her decision saw her being trolled and sent vile messages by strangers online.
      Speaking at the 2023 Attitude 101 lunch at London’s Rosewood Hotel, Alex said: “After that I disappeared. I was in Qatar with all the abuse and I was like, I need to get away because I can’t believe something out of love could create so much hate and such a divide.
      “It was Martin Luther King who said; Injustice anywhere is a threat to just everywhere. And by stopping wearing this arm band is exactly what was happening in Qatar.
      “So I disappeared. I went to Barbados for a little while. And then I came back to the UK and to say I appreciate and love so much people coming up to me and saying what wearing this armband meant to everyone.” More

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      Ex-Prem star Peter Ndlovu ‘cannot afford maintenance demand for two kids’ – as he’s shelling out for 11 more

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      FORMER Premier League star Peter Ndlovu has told a court he cannot afford a maintenance demand for two kids — because he is already shelling out for 11 more.The Zimbabwe striker, who spent six top-flight seasons with Coventry City, said: “I have 13 children, including these.”
      Peter Ndlovu said ‘I have 13 children, including these’Credit: PA:Empics Sport
      He said he had no contact with them, adding: “I was not informed by the respondent about the pregnancies or the subsequent births.”
      Ndlovu, 49 — who also played for Birmingham, Huddersfield and Sheffield United — is manager of South African club Mamelodi Sundowns.
      The mum wanted £1,420 a month.
      But Johannesburg High Court ruled he should pay her £568 a month.
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      The ex-player insisted he had no contact with the two children in question, and no relationship with their mother since their conception.
      He told the court: “As a result of these encounters, two minor children were born between the respondent and me.
      “I was not informed by the respondent about the pregnancies or the subsequent births of our children.
      “The last I heard of the children was when she instituted maintenance proceedings against me in 2016.
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      “There is no communication between the respondent and me. We share no relationship and there is no contact between us.” More

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      If Man City are guilty of breaking Premier League financial rules they should be kicked out – but don’t hold your breath

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      YOU’D think that to be accused of cheating would be the worst that could happen in sport.And that you would be kicked out and treated as a pariah.
      The Premier League has charged Manchester City with 115 counts of breaking the league’s financial rulesCredit: Reuters
      Man City manager Pep GuardiolaCredit: PA
      Well, let’s see what happens to Manchester City.
      After a long and painstaking investigation, the Premier League has charged City with 115 counts of breaking the league’s financial rules.
      In short, the Premier League is accusing Manchester City of false accounting.
      Of overvaluing the amounts of money they got in from sponsorship deals and other legitimate sources of revenue.
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      And undervaluing their costs.
      In other words lying, over a long period of time, about how much money they had and how much they were spending.
      This is called cheating.
      All the teams in the Premier League — and in the lower divisions — must abide by Financial Fair Play rules.
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      This governs what percentage of their income can be spent on wages and transfers and so on.
      It ensures the books are balanced.
      And its purpose is to stop clubs going out of business by spending beyond their means.
      In short, if you haven’t got a pot to p**s in, you can’t buy Kylian Mbappe.
      It’s pretty straightforward.
      But it’s not straightforward the way Manchester City have been doing it, allegedly.
      And if they’ve not been honest about their income and expenditure, it means they have been given a huge advantage over clubs that have abided by the rules.
      There is a suggestion Manchester City could be kicked out of the league.
      Well, that would be a start, if they’re guilty. But don’t hold your breath.
      CLEAR OFF
      Because no matter how seriously the authorities say they take Financial Fair Play, the truth is that the big clubs always seem to get away with it.
      Already, Manchester City’s bosses are marshalling a whole army of expensive lawyers.
      They say they will fight the Premier League every step of the way.
      These legal battles could go on for years and years.
      They will probably still be in court when Alf-Inge Haaland is collecting his free bus pass.
      In the meantime, City will carry on just the way they’ve always carried on.
      This, surely, is wrong. If City disagree with the Premier League’s rules, they are perfectly at liberty to clear off out of the league.
      But while in it, they must abide.
      That means, at the least, a complete embargo on transfers until this business is sorted out.
      That should concentrate the minds a little at the Etihad Stadium.
      I don’t say any of this because I hate Manchester City.
      I mean, obviously I do hate Manchester City, but no more than I hate, say, Arsenal or Leeds United.
      I’m a Millwall fan. We hate everyone.
      No, I say it because for too long now, under the league’s rules, teams that do the right thing are penalised, and somehow the big guns always wriggle out of accusations of rule-breaking.
      Which makes a mockery of the whole thing.
      The Premier League should act tough with City.
      No spending at all until the charges are heard in court, which they will be.
      And if the verdict is guilty as charged? Out of the league.
      Well done, Your Worship
      ATTENDANCES at Church of England services continue to plummet.
      More and more people who would call themselves Christian find the Church of England an utter irrelevance.
      But at last the bishops are doing something about it.
      Yes, they are reviewing the Bible for its gender-biased language.
      Well done, Your Worship.
      That’ll bring them flooding back.

      AID BY ENEMY
      THE footage of those earthquakes on the Syria/Turkey border is heart-breaking.
      As if that area hasn’t been through enough turmoil and misery . . . 
      Israel has so far dispatched 380 men from the Israel Defense Forces to help after the Turkey/Syria earthquakeCredit: Reuters
      The first country to respond to the disaster, by sending hundreds of expert helpers?
      Israel, which has so far dispatched 380 men from the Israel Defense Forces.
      Never mind that the Turkish government hates Israel, and Syria is still at war with it.
      DID POLLY HIT A NERVE BY WADING INTO WATERS?
      POLLY SAMSON, the wife of Pink Floyd star David Gilmour, has tweeted her observations on the band’s former member Roger Waters.
      She said: “You are anti-Semitic to your rotten core.
      Dave Gilmour’s wife Polly Samson has tweeted her observations on the band’s former member Roger WatersCredit: Getty
      Polly said of Roger: ‘You are anti-Semitic to your rotten core’Credit: Getty
      “Also a Putin apologist and a lying, thieving, hypocritical, tax-avoiding, lip-synching,misogynistic, sick-with-envy, megalomaniac.
      “Enough of your nonsense.”
      Mr Waters, of course, begs to differ and denies all charges.
      Maybe Polly hit a nerve. Incidentally, with the possible exceptions of U2 and Coldplay, has there ever been a more overrated band in the history of rock music than Pink Floyd?
      WELSH SHOW SENSE
      HUGE respect to the Welsh rugby fans.
      Their team may be utterly useless, but the supporters did their country proud.
      The Welsh Rugby Union has banned the song Delilah but Tom Jones is going to sing itCredit: WNS
      The Welsh Rugby Union people banned the song Delilah.
      Because it is about a bloke who kills his lover. Can’t have songs about that.
      But the Welsh fans belted it out in a magnificent show of defiance.
      And now Tom Jones is going to sing Delilah for the first time in 20 years at a show in Wales.
      That’s the way to treat these stupid, po-faced author-ities. Iechyd da!
      Rishi’s reshuffle
      THEY have been moving the deck-chairs around on the Titanic again.
      This is Rishi Sunak’s Cabinet reshuffle.
      OK, I like the idea of Michelle Donelan heading a beefed-up Science and Technology department.
      It’s good to see the excellent Kemi Bad-enoch promoted.
      But for as long as Jeremy Hunt is the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Tories are going to lose the next election.
      Heavily.

      SAM IS RECIPE FOR JOY
      APPARENTLY, 42 per cent of us can’t remember the last time we laughed.
      What a depressing statistic. I have no such problem.
      Sam Smith’s latest music video made Rod laughCredit: YOUTUBE
      I laughed like a drain when I saw Sam Smith’s last video.
      I also laughed when I saw a gobby, annoying child in a restaurant fall over flat on his face.
      And I laugh every time Nicola Sturgeon opens her mouth.
      It may be a dry, bitter, mirthless cackle – but it’s still a laugh, isn’t it?
      We all need to rediscover the joy of revelling in other people’s misfortunes.
      Put the smile back on to the face of Great Britain.
      ACTION IF IZZY WINS
      HEROINE of the week is South London mum Izzy Montague.
      She is suing the school attended by her young son because she claims they forced him to go on a LGBT march.
      The kid was FOUR YEARS OLD.
      The headteacher of Heavers Farm Primary also banned Izzy from visiting the school, saying that the staff did not feel safe when she was there.
      Scores of parents objected to their kids being taken on the march, incidentally.
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      That’s because they think children not much older than toddlers were being force-fed propaganda.
      If Izzy wins her battle, the head of the school should be sacked.  More

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      Tottenham’s Harry Kane’s secret career away from football earns him £13m

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      SHAME Harry Kane doesn’t have many trophies to his name, as the Spurs striker has plenty of room to store them.The England captain has been quietly racking up an impressive property portfolio while he’s been adding to his goal records.
      Accounts for Harry Kane’s company show his empire is worth £13.1millionCredit: Alamy
      Harry, who earns £200,000 a week, lives in a £1million-per-year rented mansion with wife Katie and their kids Ivy, Vivienne and LouisCredit: Instagram @harrykane
      I can that reveal new accounts for his company show his empire is worth £13.1million — about the same value as his big toe.
      A source says: “Harry is as astute with his money as he is with his finishing.
      “Lots of footballers make investments in property, with mixed results, but Harry clearly knows what he’s doing.”
      Harry’s company Edward James Investments has his parents and brother Charlie, also his agent, on the books.
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      Despite owning a vast number of properties, The Sun revealed last year that Harry, who earns £200,000 a week, lives in a £1million-per-year rented mansion with wife Katie and their kids Ivy, Vivienne and Louis.
      The seven-bed property has its own spa, cinema room, staff quarters and lift system. As well as houses, Harry also collects flash cars, owning a £99,000 Land Rover, a £35,000 Jaguar F-Pace and a £212,000 Bentley.
      Harry finally overlook Jimmy Greaves’ longstanding record as Spurs’ top scorer by notching the winner against Manchester City last weekend, the club that tried to sign him in the summer of 2021.
      There’s talk Harry is leaning towards extending his contract with his boyhood club in 2024, when his current deal expires.
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      That would almost certainly mean the prolific frontman would end his career in North London.
      Shame he won’t be interested in a move to my club Everton.
      He’ll feel right at home – we don’t win anything either. More