EXCLUSIVE Truth about 'repulsive' Jude Bellingham: He carefully manages his multi-million-pound brand. But now KATIE HIND reveals 'tacky' trip, cruel rumours about new love and why football bosses are worried it's 'all going wrong'
As one of the world's most talented and richest footballers, perhaps Jude Bellingham should have thought twice about posing for pictures with one particular hanger-on.
In a VIP cabana at the O Beach club in Ibiza, the Real Madrid midfielder was photographed laughing with its owner, Wayne Lineker, the controversial younger brother of ex-Match Of The Day host Gary.
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EuroMillions results and numbers: National Lottery draw tonight, June 13
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The Guardian
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- The Guardian
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Instead, as the Club World Cup builds towards Saturday's opening night, Lionel Messi's Inter Miami versus Al Ahly at the Hard Rock Stadium, this is a tournament that exists at the fringe of America's densely packed attention economy, an ambient drawl of half-heard voices, noises through the wall. The last week has brought almost-news of $4 tickets, star-player platitudes, immigration officials at the opening game. And all of this in a host city where people still look a little blank and say things such as: 'The Club World-what?' and: 'Actually I like hockey, but my nephew, he loves Cristiano Ronaldo, and let me tell you, what a body that guy has.' This is a place where things keep almost-happening. Come and watch Inter Miami train on plasticised grass next to a private airfield, but no, not with Messi present. Wait! Infantino is giving a public address. Although it turns out he's sent a video message ('un momento muy importante') that people can video on their phones, while in turn being videoed by the official video crew, the only revelation from which was that Gianni appears to have acquired an excitingly badger-ish set of eyebrows. So there's that. Otherwise, at times it has felt as if the only publicity around this thing is occasional in-house footage of Infantino appearing at some sealed indoor hype-event, looking like a fringe member of the intergalactic royal family being held hostage in a luxury basement, forced to stand next to Ronaldinho and the drummer from Spandau Ballet, and talk only about massive stuff, huge things, the biggest. Through all this, Infantino has become a slightly stretched figure. Understandably so. Here is a man charged with calling an imaginary sporting world into being, out there constantly saying things that are untrue about a thing that doesn't exist to people who don't care. Three days before the big kick-off it emerged that ChatGPT had simulated the entire tournament. Paris Saint-Germain beat Bayern Munich in the final. Do we actually need to play it? And yet, of course, we do. And with a duty, not to Fifa, or to the revenues of tomorrow, but to the idea this game still belongs even in debased form to the people who care about it. It is traditional at times such as these to hammer out a tournament preview, a distillation of all that stored excitement, the cultural collisions that have led to this place, the hard-edged imponderables of elite sport, the beauty in store. Hmm, yes. About that. This will be difficult on this occasion because this thing is ersatz, a pop-up. Sport is culture, memory and connection. But this is all borrowed culture, a burger made out of Plasticine, the tournament equivalent of Qatar's desert city of Lusail, with its fake Rimini, its imitation Paris. 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Daily Mail
an hour ago
- Daily Mail
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