4 days agoWorld LeaksComments Off on Harlem Eubank breaks down in tears as he opens up on family tragedy and discusses ‘dark times’ for Chris Eubank Snr
HARLEM EUBANK gave SunSport a tear-soaked interview to discuss the tragic passing of cousin Sebastian and his father Simon.
But the iconic British fighting family is now united in helping raise the newest generation in Raheem, the son 29-year-old Seb agonisingly left behind at just one-month old.
The SunHarlem Eubank broke down in tears as he discussed the tragic passing of cousin Sebastian and his father Simon[/caption]
Louis WoodHe also explained how Chris Eubank Snr has come through ‘dark times’ to be in a ‘good place’[/caption]
Seb – who Harlem was extremely close to thanks to a shared love of martial arts and spiritualism – suffered a heart attack in Dubai in 2021.
And last year Harlem’s dad Simon died aged 61 after a gut-wrenching battle with dementia that the tough former fighter just could not win.
There have been such dark days in the family but the 30-year-old Brighton ace has beautifully explained how they are now trying to live all together in the light.
“Chris Sr in a good place right now,” he beamed.
“He, like all of us, went through a very tough time. He has had to deal with some very painful things.
“Maybe he was exploited a bit, around that time and put in the limelight when he shouldn’t have been.
“He went through a dark time but he has come through the other side now.
“And it is great to see Chris Eubank Sr in true Chris Eubank form.
“It’s difficult. It’s something that stays with you. I don’t think you ever overcome it, it stays with you.
“Then you need to use it as a powerful tool to drive yourself on and achieve and honour the people who came before you.
“That is what I am trying to do, because otherwise it is not going to lead you to good places.
“If you don’t use things to fuel you and help you honour people, it can lay heavy on you.
“Chris has softened up now we have Raheem to look after, he’s softened.
“Having Raheem in our lives has changed us all, definitely. He’s a beautiful boy.
GettySebastian Eubank died in 2021 after suffering a heart attack in Dubai[/caption]
InstagramSimon Eubank passed away aged 61 last year after a gut-wrenching battle with dementia[/caption]
“He has all the make-up of his father.
“You see Seb when you look at him, you see him in different expressions Raheem uses.
“It’s beautiful because it makes you feel like Seb is still here, he is here now, living through Raheem.
“Every time I see him, it gives me a warm feeling, he’s just had his first day at school, he’s three and I got sent photos of him throwing up the peace sign on his first day.
“All the other kids are crying about leaving their parents for the first time and he is full of confidence and desperate to run in there and take over.
“That is the make-up of Seb. It’s great to be close to him and watching him grow up will be a beautiful process.”
The SunEubank explained the family have come together to raise Seb’s son Raheem[/caption]
4 days agoWorld LeaksComments Off on ‘It’s the new garlic bread,’ rants Roy Keane as Man Utd legend slams method Gary Neville swears by as a ‘waste of time’
ROY KEANE left Gary Neville, Jamie Carragher and Ian Wright in stitches after slamming ice baths as the “new garlic bread”.
Manchester United legend Neville, 49, revealed he has an ice bath at home which he goes in for six minutes at a temperature of five degrees.
The OverlapRoy Keane dismissed the idea of ice baths being a good training method[/caption]
Gary Neville, Jamie Carragher and Ian Wright were left in stitches at Keane’s commentsThe Overlap
But his former Red Devils team-mate Keane, 53, was quick to quash the idea of it having any positive effect.
Speaking on a boat in Istanbul on The Overlap On Tour, he said: “All that’s a waste of time, I’m telling you lads.
“I looked into it, I’ve done my homework on it. Ice baths, the new garlic bread.
“I’m telling you, it’s a waste of time. It’s the new thing. Leave it.”
The garlic bread comment appears to be in reference to Peter Kay‘s famous comedy catchphrase from more than 20 years ago.
Keane insisted he had done his “homework” on ice baths and was not just “throwing comments out there like a lot of people”, but admitted he would only tell Wright what he knew after the cameras cut.
Neville stuck to his guns by claiming it was one of many “minor details” which add up to make an impact.
Wright agreed on the positive impacts of ice baths, before Keane chimed back at Neville by saying: “Were you having ice baths the last two or three years of your career?”
Neville confirmed he was, before Keane shut him down, adding: “But you were finished. What benefit was it? People running past you.”
The remark left the group in fits of laughter as they agreed to disagree.
4 days agoWorld LeaksComments Off on Inside the Subbuteo World Cup as tournament comes to Kent as players get FINGERS insured and hold training camps
WEMBLEY, MARACANA, Stadio Olimpico, Tunbridge Wells Sports Centre.
All of these venues will have one thing in common come Monday. They will have hosted a World Cup final.
Facebook/English Subbuteo AssociationThe Subbuteo World Cup is coming to Tunbridge Wells[/caption]
Facebook/English Subbuteo AssociationPlayers from 26 nations will battle it out[/caption]
Facebook/English Subbuteo AssociationTunbridge Wells will host more than 300 players[/caption]
It seems odd that a commuter town 30 miles outside London should stage the climax to a huge international football tournament.
But if you’re into Subbuteo it’s no surprise at all. This weekend, 300 players from 26 nations plus hundreds more fans are flocking to a leafy part of Kent to see the famous table-top game ‘come home’.
Subbuteo was devised by former RAF man Peter Adolph in 1947, in the village of Langton Green on the outskirts of Tunbridge Wells.
It is still regarded as the cradle of a unique game which has stood the test of time and seen off the challenge of video games to be bigger than ever.
The Subbuteo World Cup is everything that a real one is, with the exception that the players are one inch high plastic figures being flicked around a piece of cloth by fully grown adults in two halves of 15 minutes. Thankfully, there is no VAR.
Other than that it is much the same as any modern day FIFA World Cup, boasting all the colour, controversy drama and passion of the man-size game.
Tournament host and English Subbuteo Association ‘technical director’, Stewart Grant told SunSport: “We have players coming over from Australia, Brazil, Singapore and Japan and even a player from Ukraine.
“He is actually French but he lived out there before the war so he is playing for Ukraine. And there’s a team from Tunisia – the only African nation being represented.
“There are multiple categories. There are groups, seedings and then like any other World Cup it goes into a knockout format and on to the final.
“It can get very passionate, it really can. It’s very intricate in how players flick the ball and move forwards.
“It moves at such speed that when players score they will run off pumping their arms, chests and running around.
“In the team event players bundle each other like you see on a real pitch. Players curse when they scuff a shot.
“The passion levels can get very high and there will be disagreements like there is in real football. Especially among the Continentals, who take it very seriously. This year we want that passion. We want to get in people’s faces.
“It never comes to pushing and shoving but there have been instances at local and national level where players have disagreed with something on the pitch, picked up their players and walked off.
“We are actively encouraging people to come down in England kits, bring flags. And if a goal goes in, cheer it.
“When we have gone abroad to places like Italy they all cheer their team on so much that it can be intimidating.
“This is our chance to give it back and create a cauldron, so when people play us they are scared and are nervous.
“We have got to semi-finals and quarters. But now we have the players that with the right draw, can go on and win it.”
‘THREE CENTIMETRE LIONS’
England have yet to lift any of the numerous trophies up for grabs in the Veterans, Women’s, Individual, Team, Under-16 and Under-12 categories in the now biennial tournament.
The ‘Three Centimetre Lions’ have a top squad and even staged training camps in Milton Keynes to make sure nothing is left to chance or a badly positioned digit.
Vastly experienced campaigner Justin Finch once had his flicking finger insured for £50k.
Ruby Matthews is a huge star in the Under-16 category. Hadley Chapman has been playing only 18 months but is already team captain for the U12s.
The event has made it to broadcast with it being streamed live on X.
Grant, also a Youtuber, said: “There is a multi camera set up and even guest commentaries. In Tunbridge Wells they are so passionate about this game originating there.
“There are museum exhibitions, walking tours. They are so proud that the game came from there. The fact it is ‘coming home’ has brought everyone together. We have brought Subbuteo back to where it was born.
“That’s why it’s the biggest World Cup there has ever been. It is in our backyard.”
The draw is on Friday and England have their work cut out to be crowned world champions like they were on home soil in ‘66 at Wembley under Bobby Moore.
Spain has a great player in Carlos Flores but he can’t make it. There’s a lot of relieved people out there
Stewart Grant, English Subbuteo Association ‘technical director’
Grant said: “The Italians are the best in the world. The Belgians have a great youth set up with a lot of players coming through.
“Spain has a great player in Carlos Flores but he can’t make it. There’s a lot of relieved people out there.
“Some outsiders worth watching include the Maltese, who are very professional. Their national association is recognised by their Olympic Committee. They get a lot of funding.
“Subbuteo’s a cross between football, chess and snooker. It’s sport in miniature.
“If anyone thinks we are grown men playing with toys, come down on Saturday and Sunday and you will see a completely different approach.”
Facebook/English Subbuteo AssociationThe Subbuteo World Cup 2024 is set to take place this weekend[/caption]
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EPAThe Bayesian sank off the coast of Sicily last month killing seven[/caption]
EPABusinessman Mike Lynch and daughter Hannah died on board the vessel[/caption]
EPADivers are continuing to search the wreckage[/caption]
PAThe boat had the tallest aluminium mast in the world[/caption]
Reports claim the tech entrepreneur had a pair of hard drives that held secret information on the world’s most powerful spy agencies on board.
Divers are now scouring the sea floor for the crucial disks at the bottom of the sea before they fall into the wrong hands, La Repubblica reports.
Sources told the paper the disks held: “the great digital archive of the IT entrepreneur whose clients included the British MI5, the American NSA and the Israeli services”.
The Italian newspaper said the “super drives” are protected by “cutting-edge encryption”.
But the drives now could be a target for the hostile spy agencies of Russia, China, and Iran as they seek to steal valuable secrets.
Lynch reportedly did not trust the cloud to save his high level business secrets so always had the hard drives on him.
The billionaire partly made his wealth by creating algorithms and software widely used by top Western security agencies.
His company Autonomy won high-profile contracts with governments, including a deal to provide infrastructure to the US Homeland Security for the post-9/11 war on terror.
The Bayesian is also reported to hold other documents in the ship’s safe that could also be highly valuable.
James Bond obsessive Lynch also co-founded cybersecurity company Darktrace and employed high-ranking intelligence agents for the firm.
Investigators from Palermo have pulled no personal effects of the seven victims and 15 survivors from the ocean yet.
But last week, divers recovered surveillance equipment from the yacht that will hopefully be able to shed light on its final moments afloat.
Divers have also recovered the ship’s hard drives as they continue their investigation.
However, the ship had no black box and there are worries the Bayesian’s hard drives may not be water resistant.
CCTV showed the Bayesian superyacht moments before it sank
Kiwi Cutfield, along with two other members of his crew, are being investigated by Italian authorities for culpable shipwreck and multiple manslaughter.
The 184 ft Bayesian was carrying 22 people when it sank within minutes of being hit by a downburst – a strong, localised wind – while anchored in Porticello near Palermo.
The luxury vessel was caught up in a tornado which caused it to sink in the early hours of the morning.
Fifteen of those on board were rescued on a life raft, while the yacht’s cook Recaldo Thomas was discovered dead in the water shortly afterwards.
Specialist divers recovered the bodies of billionaire Lynch, 59, and four of his guests, from the first cabin on the left.
Officials said the victims had scrambled to reach air pockets in the yacht, which sank 164ft stern-first before rolling onto its right side on the seabed.
Investigators are understood to be rifling through CCTV footage and photographs taken by locals on the night of the storm to understand why the boat sank so quickly.
Chief Prosecutor Ambrogio Cartosio said the victims would have been asleep when a tornado-like waterspout struck the boat, leaving them unable to escape.
Lynch had just won a court case over the sale of Autonomy to tech giant HP after being accused of fraudulently raising the price.
The 59-year-old had been living under house arrest in San Francisco, US, with just his beloved dog Faucet for company, for well over a year.
He was finally acquitted just months ago and spoke about longing to spend time with his wife, Angela Bacares and their two daughters.
In 1996, he started software company Autonomy, which would be used to analyse huge swathes of data from unstructured sources like phone calls, emails and videos.
Describing his small team he said: “Eccentric people working really hard on a project. No bureaucracy. No admin. Lots of late nights, lots of eating cold pizza”.
Autonomy became an instant success and benefitted from the dotcom boom, which led it to join the FTSE 100 of top UK listed companies.
The achievements with Mike, the chief executive officer, at the helm led to considerable praise including receiving an OBE for services to enterprise in 2006.
Inside The Bayesian's final 16 minutes
By Ellie Doughty, Foreign News Reporter
Data recovered from the Bayesian’s Automatic Identification System (AIS) breaks down exactly how it sank in a painful minute-by-minute timeline.
At 3.50am on Monday August 19 the Bayesian began to shake “dangerously” during a fierce storm, Italian outlet Corriere revealed.
Just minutes later at 3.59am the boat’s anchor gave way, with a source saying the data showed there was “no anchor left to hold”.
After the ferocious weather ripped away the boat’s mooring it was dragged some 358 metres through the water.
By 4am it had began to take on water and was plunged into a blackout, indicating that the waves had reached its generator or even engine room.
An emergency GPS signal was finally emitted at 4.06am to the coastguard station in Bari, a city nearby, alerting them that the vessel had sunk.
Early reports suggested the disaster struck around 5am local time off the coast of Porticello Harbour in Palermo, Sicily.
The new data pulled from the boat’s AIS appears to suggest it happened an hour earlier at around 4am.
Some 15 of the 22 onboard were rescued, 11 of them scrambling onto an inflatable life raft that sprung up on the deck.
A smaller nearby boat – named Sir Robert Baden Powell – then helped take those people to shore.
PAJonathan and Judy Bloomer who also tragically died[/caption]
Recaldo Thomas, a Canadian-Antiguan chef, was the first fatality to be identifiedPASurvivors got to shore in an inflatable emergency lifeboat[/caption]
PALynch was celebrating his legal victory on the Bayesian[/caption]
