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      New champ Oleksandr Usyk back on school run with son Mikhail just days after masterclass victory over Anthony Joshua

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      MIKHAIL USYK is much happier now his dad is heavyweight champion of the world — and back on the school run.Ice-cool Oleksandr revealed ahead of Saturday night’s masterclass win over Anthony Joshua he was more worried about his six-year-old son’s nervous start to education than the Brit powerhouse.
      Oleksandr Usyk is on top of the world after being crowned unified heavyweight championCredit: Reuters
      Usyk is now back on the school run with son MikhailCredit: Instagram / @usykaa
      And the new WBA, IBF and WBO king told SunSport, despite a few cuts and bruises, he is already back on drop-off duty after schooling AJ at Tottenham.
      Dad-of-three Usyk said: “My son goes to school more willingly now because I’ve arrived home and I’m taking him there.
      “But, as far as I’m concerned, none of my kids boasts that their dad is world champion. And, honestly, I’m happy about that.”
      Joshua has lifted British boxing up by the bootstraps, leaving almost everyone in the industry, including Tyson Fury, gutted by his loss.
      But it is still hard to find a single retired or active fighter, pundit, promoter or fan who agreed with his gameplan to outbox the gifted technician.
      Even as the rounds slipped away from him, none of AJ’s three-man coaching team ordered him to step on the gas to save his titles, leaving him to limp towards the judges’ unanimous decision.

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      But Usyk defended Team AJ, explaining: “I don’t think he was boxing safe and hoped that the judges would help him somehow due to the home-soil factor.
      “There are many reasons why his team didn’t tell him about a KO.
      “When you’re trying to focus too much on knockout, it simply doesn’t happen most of the time.
      “Whether he thought about the judges or not — I guess that’s his deal.”
      Usyk and AJ both won Olympic gold at London 2012 and are brilliant ambassadors for the sport.
      We will try our best to progress and become strongerOleksandr UsykWBA, WBO & IBF Heavyweight Champion
      The build-up was typically decent but the mercurial leftie made it very clear that he saw AJ as a normal boxer with nothing to frighten him.
      And that should ring alarm bells for AJ who has snapped up an immediate rematch, planned for March, especially as the new king is already making improvements.
      When reminded of his assessment, Usyk added: “I stand by what I said.
      “It just depends on his efforts and his team. The same goes for us — and we will try our best to progress and become stronger.”
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      Usyk put on a boxing clinic to beat Joshua on pointsCredit: Reuters
      Usyk was more worried about his son’s day at school than the threat possessed by JoshuaCredit: Instagram / @usykaa
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      It’s early days for Sancho at Man Utd… but Solskjaer needs everyone up & running NOW and £73m winger must deliver soon

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      IN THE 75th minute on Wednesday night Jadon Sancho’s number went up and the Old Trafford fans gave him a standing ovation as he was subbed.Quite what he had done to deserve such applause is another thing but they can be a very generous crowd.
      Manchester United winger Jadon Sancho is still adjusting to life at Old TraffordCredit: EPA
      Sancho was hooked after 75 minutes against Villarreal in the Champions League on Wednesday nightCredit: EPA
      You should have heard the reception Radamel Falcao used to get.
      But much was expected of one of the club’s biggest signings in history and while it is very early days, Sancho has not delivered.
      The 2-1 win over Villarreal was another example.
      So far in five starts and three substitute appearances he has yet to produce a goal or assist in 403 minutes for United.
      He has completed just one full 90 minutes for the club — the 1-0 Carabao Cup defeat to West Ham when Ole Gunnar Solskjaer completely changed his starting XI from the win over the Hammers the previous weekend.
      In his eight appearances, United have scored 16 goals but only FIVE when he is on the pitch. 

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      And you struggle to remember him even beating a man.
      It is as well for him that Cristiano Ronaldo returned to the club and the spotlight that would have been on Sancho has been on the Portuguese superstar. 
      Ronaldo thrives in it. Obviously you cannot compare the two.
      But Ronaldo’s five goals in as many games have papered over a number of cracks, with one of the biggest question marks hanging over Sancho.
      When United were struggling for a goal against Aston Villa on Saturday, struggling to get the ball to Ronaldo and create anything, Sancho stayed on the bench.
      His manager Solskjaer clearly believed that he was not going to alter nothing.
      England manager Gareth Southgate has clearly thought that for some time despite including him in his squad once again yesterday for the two upcoming internationals.
      Sancho was one of only three from the 26 called up for the Euros in the summer to be totally left out the opening match day squad against Croatia.
      Sancho is yet to chip in with a goal or provide an assist from his eight Red Devils appearancesCredit: PA
      He started just one game in the championships, the 4-0 thumping of Ukraine in Rome and was unfortunate to be one of the penalty takers who missed in the penalty shoot-out in the final.
      Sancho has 22 caps for England and those who have seen every one of those reckon he has had three decent games.
      In the most recent international break he pulled out the squad early with a knock but there was no explanation as to how he had got it or what it was.
      Anyway he was fit enough to start against Newcastle when the Premier League resumed.
      You look at his stats from his time with Borussia Dortmund and you wonder where that player is, they are fantastic.
      In the four years with the club after leaving Manchester City as a 17-year-old he played 104 games scoring 38 goals and providing 51 assists.
      From the start of that 2018-19 season when he became a regular for Dortmund, Sancho made 41 assists in the Bundesliga.
      In the top five European leagues in this period, only two produced more: Thomas Muller (48) and Lionel Messi (43). Not that things were always well during his time in Germany off the pitch.
      Sancho will be vying to start against Everton at the Theatre of Dreams on SaturdayCredit: AFP
      You have to wonder whether his early impact went to his head. In Germany there is a much more open relationship between clubs and media, much like there used to be in this country.
      Yet for his final two years in there, Sancho blanked the regular Dortmund media pack doing just one interview with ESPN.
      Perhaps it was the coverage of a rather lavish trip to Dubai in January 2020 that steeled his resolve to ignore the press.
      He posted an Instagram video from that trip which included him applying salt to a gold covered £268 steak.
      As respected German newspaper Die Welt put it that ‘was difficult to stomach for the public’.
      The Dortmund hierarchy was furious too and he was given a dressing down on his return to the club.
      He had already blotted his copy book by then after returning late from international duty with England in October 2019 and was axed from the squad for the 1-0 win over then Bundesliga leaders Borussia Monchengladbach.
      The following month he was late for a team meeting and subsequently left out of the squad for a Champions League game with Barcelona.

      Yet in that same 2019-20 season Sancho became part of a select group to have recorded 15-plus goals and assists in the same league campaign alongside Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Eden Hazard.
      Still he continued to hit the headlines for other reasons and in October of last year he enraged his club again.
      He was allowed to sit out the club’s 4-0 victory over Freiburg before an international break due to cold-like symptoms that saw him separated from the rest of the squad, although he would test negative for Covid.
      Then within days he was pictured with around 20 guests including Ben Chilwell at a surprise party for Tammy Abraham in London breaching strict Covid rules.
      His performances in the second half of last season remained top draw, but were Dortmund happy to let him go?
      If not why was an asking price of £110m at the end of the 2019-20 season as United pursued him then reduced to £73m by the time they finally got his signature this summer.
      He is 21 and mistakes will be made. He is still getting used to a new set of team-mates. But United need everyone up and running now – and Sancho is not.
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      Cristiano Ronaldo so committed to training the Sir Alex Ferguson would have to FORCE him to go home, reveals Nicky Butt

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      CRISTIANO RONALDO spent so long on the training ground that Sir Alex Ferguson ordered him to leave because it was too close to a game.The legendary boss feared the young Ronaldo would wear himself out perpetually practising all his trick, flicks and skills.
      Cristiano Ronaldo is BACK at Manchester United – and already making wavesCredit: Getty
      Butt saw the supreme talents of Cristiano Ronaldo at first handCredit: Action Images
      Nicky Butt came off when Ronaldo made his first Manchester United debut in 2003 and in the new book “Viva Ronaldo”, Butt reveals the secrets of Ronaldo’s determination to make it to the top.
      Butt said: “Ronaldo was to emerge as a genius but it wasn’t just about his talents that took him right to the top.
      “It is often said that certain players worked hard, stayed behind for some extra training or to practise their techniques, but with Cristiano it was total dedication, total commitment, and total hard work.
      “He didn’t have a God given physique, it wasn’t given, he worked hard to achieve it. He actually came to us as a skinny, scrawny young kid, and worked hard to get that physique over many, may years.
      “He had to reach a new level of physical strength because the Premier League demanded it, and he had plenty of opportunity to see at first hand how physical and tough it can be when he was up against, even in training, the likes of Roy Keane and Jaap Stam.
      “We would also see him work relentlessly on his free kicks and he would tell us about something he had seen somewhere, and he wanted to perfect it, and he would work again relentlessly until he did.

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      “It all went beyond dedication, he was obsessed with football.
      “You see it all the time when some players talk about their dedication and how much extra practise they put in.
      “But often it is little more than a pretence, maybe a touch more time practising and then rush off to do something else they are keen on, or can’t wait to go home and have something to eat, but rarely do you find someone totally committed 24/7 to the game, but Cristiano was one of those.
      “He never had a girlfriend back then, or seemed that interested in any distractions such as that, he never had a wife and kids to rush back to see or to entertain, he lived alone.
      “He was the last to leave the building. In fact, you couldn’t get him off the training pitch as he worked relentlessly on his techniques, as we all walking off he was carrying a bag of balls to work on those techniques.
      “We would be having lunch in the canteen or getting ready to go home and you could hear the voice of Sir Alex bellowing across the training fields at two or three o’clock in the afternoon, shouting at Cristiano that it was time to get off the pitch as ‘we have a game in two days – enough now’!”
      He has returned just at the right time to this club, we’re crying out to regain that old successful winning formula and entertaining footballNicky ButtOn Cristiano Ronaldo
      When he was replaced by Ronaldo against Bolton, Butt recalls: “As the change was made on the touchline I said to Cristiano, ‘good luck, enjoy it’.
      “We were all aware that it wouldn’t be easy for an 18 year old coming to a new country and playing in a league where the intensity and pace is far greater than he had ever been used to in Portuguese football.
      “The first thing he did when Cristiano came on was to dribble at people and he immediately got the fans on their feet with his trickery.
      “We all appreciated that people in Manchester deserved to be entertained when they spent their hard earned money to come to watch us, and here they got an early glimpse of this new boy Cristiano Ronaldo and they loved what they could see of him. Nothing seemed to faze him.”
      Butt knew he would comeback ‘home”, adding: “He showed loyalty to the club that gave him his big chance.
      “He has returned just at the right time to this club, we’re crying out to regain that old successful winning formula and entertaining football. Make no mistake, he has created an incredible buzz about the place.”
      Viva Ronaldo!: The Second Coming of Cristiano, Out Now by Harry Harris, Foreword by Nicky Butt, Empire Publishing £9.95
      Butt believes Ronaldo can get United back to greatnessCredit: Reuters
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      Cristiano Ronaldo’s driver waited seven hours to fill up £220k Bentley with fuel – but left without a drop

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      CRISTIANO Ronaldo’s driver waited nearly seven hours to fill his £220,000 Bentley with petrol — but left without a drop.The supercar was spotted in a queue at a Shell forecourt a few miles from the Manchester United player’s home.
      Cristiano Ronaldo’s Bentley was spotted at a forecourt in Manchester at 2:20pmCredit: Eamonn and James Clarke
      His disappointed driver was still waiting at 9pmCredit: Eamonn and James Clarke
      One of Ronaldo’s security team escorted the star’s flashy supercarCredit: Eamonn and James Clarke
      A Range Rover, also driven by a member of Ronaldo’s security team, was parked alongside it.
      The drivers pulled up at 2.20pm, hoping a tanker would arrive at the filling station with supplies.
      But having waited six hours 40 minutes, they realised none was coming and drove away at 9pm.
      There was no sign of Ronaldo, 36, who is staying in a seven- bedroom mansion near the filling station in Wilmslow, Cheshire.
      His drivers kept their spirits up as they waited in the rain with takeaway Starbucks coffees from the Spar inside the garage.
      A source said: “Even with all Ronaldo’s money, he’s in the same boat as the rest of us.

      “His security waited for hours obviously hoping a tanker would eventually arrive but they were forced to drive off.
      “The two men looked so fed up waiting in the rain. Ronaldo might be housebound like everyone else if this keeps up.”
      Even if a tanker had arrived, the most they could have bought was £30 after Shell introduced the cap to cope with the panic-buying.
      The Portugal ace recently bought the flash Bentley Flying Spur to add to his £17million stable of supercars. He has been seen driving it to United’s training ground during the past week.
      Even with all Ronaldo’s money, he’s in the same boat as the rest of us.
      His latest purchase came less than a month after his return to Old Trafford from Juventus.
      Ronaldo’s collection includes Ferraris, Lamborghinis, McLarens, two Rolls-Royces, a Porsche 911 Turbo S, a Koenigsegg CCX, a Bentley Continental, a Range Rover and several Audis and Mercedes.
      He has a £1.4million Ferrari Monza, a £1.7million Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport and a £2.15million Bugatti Chiron.
      But the £8.5million jewel in his collection is the Bugatti Centodieci — one of only ten to be built.
      The Manchester United player is staying in a seven-bed mansion in Wilmslow, CheshireCredit: Getty
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      Cristiano Ronaldo’s driver waited seven hours to fill up £220k Bentley – but left without a drop

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      CRISTIANO Ronaldo’s driver waited nearly seven hours to fill his £220,000 Bentley with petrol — but left without a drop.The supercar was spotted in a queue at a Shell forecourt a few miles from the Manchester United player’s home.
      Cristiano Ronaldo’s Bentley was spotted at a forecourt in Manchester at 2:20pmCredit: Eamonn and James Clarke
      His disappointed driver was still waiting at 9pmCredit: Eamonn and James Clarke
      One of Ronaldo’s security team escorted the star’s flashy supercarCredit: Eamonn and James Clarke
      A Range Rover, also driven by a member of Ronaldo’s security team, was parked alongside it.
      The drivers pulled up at 2.20pm, hoping a tanker would arrive at the filling station with supplies.
      But having waited six hours 40 minutes, they realised none was coming and drove away at 9pm.
      There was no sign of Ronaldo, 36, who is staying in a seven- bedroom mansion near the filling station in Wilmslow, Cheshire.
      His drivers kept their spirits up as they waited in the rain with takeaway Starbucks coffees from the Spar inside the garage.
      A source said: “Even with all Ronaldo’s money, he’s in the same boat as the rest of us.

      “His security waited for hours obviously hoping a tanker would eventually arrive but they were forced to drive off.
      “The two men looked so fed up waiting in the rain. Ronaldo might be housebound like everyone else if this keeps up.”
      Even if a tanker had arrived, the most they could have bought was £30 after Shell introduced the cap to cope with the panic-buying.
      The Portugal ace recently bought the flash Bentley Flying Spur to add to his £17million stable of supercars. He has been seen driving it to United’s training ground during the past week.
      Even with all Ronaldo’s money, he’s in the same boat as the rest of us.
      His latest purchase came less than a month after his return to Old Trafford from Juventus.
      Ronaldo’s collection includes Ferraris, Lamborghinis, McLarens, two Rolls-Royces, a Porsche 911 Turbo S, a Koenigsegg CCX, a Bentley Continental, a Range Rover and several Audis and Mercedes.
      He has a £1.4million Ferrari Monza, a £1.7million Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport and a £2.15million Bugatti Chiron.
      But the £8.5million jewel in his collection is the Bugatti Centodieci — one of only ten to be built.
      The Manchester United player is staying in a seven-bed mansion in Wilmslow, CheshireCredit: Getty
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      Jack Grealish & girlfriend Sasha Attwood forced to move out of Manchester flat after fans worked out where he lived

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      JACK Grealish has been forced to move out of his swanky Manchester apartment after fans discovered his location.The winger, who made history this summer with his £115million transfer to Man City, moved over concerns for the safety of himself and his girlfriend Sasha Attwood.
      Jack Grealish has moved out of his flat amid safety concerns for him and his girlfriend SashaCredit: Splash
      The Man City star had a swanky apartment in ManchesterCredit: Getty
      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 at the moment and those who have been waiting around are people who adore Jack and want to get pictures and autographs.
      “However looking at the bigger picture, it’s not ideal that people know his building – especially given the threats Sasha has endured.
      “For safety he has now relocated and is no longer at the property he has been living in.
      “It is hoped that while he remains in Manchester this will remain under wraps.”
      Following his transfer from Aston Villa, Three Lions ace Jack, 25, has seen his star status turn meteoric.

      He is now one of the most searched for sportsmen in the UK, with recent research showing there are over 200,000 Google searches of his name every month.
      Sasha, 23, who has been dating Jack since her teens, is a model and recently signed a big money deal with Boohoo.
      The Sun revealed earlier this year how she had been inundated with death threats – receiving 200 vile messages a day on Instagram during the 2020 Euros.
      Jack and Sasha have been dating since their teensCredit: Tim Stewart
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      Everton star Jean-Philippe Gbamin fined £25,000 and banned from roads after 5am drink-drive smash

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      EVERTON midfielder Jean-Philippe Gbamin has been fined £25,000 and banned from the roads after a 5am drink-drive smash.The injury-hit star, 26, collided with a Jaguar in his Audi RS Q8 as he left the M56 near his home in Hale Barns, Gtr Manchester, on August 8, a court heard.
      Jean-Philippe Gbamin has been fined £25,000 and banned from the roads after a 5am drink-drive smashCredit: Getty
      A breath test revealed he had 52mg of alcohol in 100ml of breath.
      The legal limit is 35mg.
      Gbamin, from the Ivory Coast, who earns £100,000 a month, admitted drink-driving at Manchester magistrates’ court and got a 14-month driving ban and fine.
      JP Susanne O’Connell told him: “You are very fortunate no serious injuries were caused.
      He said: “I am sorry.”

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      Georgina Rodriguez admits she’s keen for Ronaldo to ask her to marry him

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      CRISTIANO Ronaldo’s girlfriend Georgina Rodriguez has admitted she’s keen for him to make her a Wed Devil.The Argentinian model, 27, is asked in a new ­Netflix documentary on her life if they’ll get married.
      Gorgeous Georgina Rodriguez admits she’s ready for Cristiano Ronaldo to pop the questionCredit: Mega
      The Argentinian model, 27, responds ‘I wish’ as she is asked in new Netflix documentary if they’ll get marriedCredit: The Mega Agency
      She nods her head towards Man United ace Ronaldo, 36, and says: “It doesn’t depend on me . . . I wish.”
      She used the word “Ojala” in Spanish which translates into English as “hopefully” or “let’s hope so”.
      The pair have been dating since 2016 when she was earning £10-an-hour as a shop worker in Madrid.
      The brunette beauty has a three-year-old daughter with Ronaldo, and plays mum to his other three children.
      The premiere date of the documentary is yet to be announced.
      The pair have had to deny several reports they have tied the knot, with one saying they married during a secret trip to Morocco.

      The premiere date of the documentary is yet to be announced
      The pair have been dating since 2016 when she was earning £10-an-hour as a shop worker in MadridCredit: The Mega Agency
      The brunette beauty has a three-year-old daughter with Ronaldo and plays mum to his other three childrenCredit: Instagram @cristiano
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