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‘I was f***ing fuming with the wives,’ Gary Neville tells Coleen Rooney as he opens up on anger at 2006 World Cup fiasco

GARY NEVILLE has opened up on England’s infamous Wag chaos at the 2006 World Cup.

The ex-Man Utd full-back claims he was “fuming” as a “circus” erupted at the Three Lions base in Baden-Baden.

Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher on Sky Bet's Stick To Football.
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Gary Neville has taken a swipe at the England 2006 Wags[/caption]
Girlfriends of German World Cup footballers leaving a bar.
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Coleen Rooney (right) was among the wives and girlfriends at England’s Baden-Baden base[/caption]
Alex Curran and Coleen McLoughlin partying at a bar.
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The infamous tour saw the Wags criticised for running up a huge hotel bill and partying[/caption]

England’s Golden Generation crashed out at the quarter-final stage in Germany after a penalty shootout loss to Portugal.

But much of the focus during the tournament was on the partying Wags as they racked up a £1million hotel bill.

Coleen Rooney – wife of England star Wayne – was among those criticized at the time for her role in the saga.

In a recent edition of The Overlap, Wayne’s teammate Neville revealed his frustration at the arrangements in Germany.

Joining Coleen on the pod, brought to you by Sky Bet, Neville said: “I was f***ing fuming with the wives.”

Neville’s co-star Jamie Carragher interrupted to laughs: “Backtrack! Backtrack, reverse.”

The ex-United star continued: “Not necessarily individually, or even with the wives actually. I was fuming with the organisers.

“We were in Baden-Baden, in this camp in Germany for the 2006 World Cup – it was the biggest competition of our lives, and we had a good team.

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“I can only describe it as an absolute circus. It wasn’t with the wives [that I was annoyed] but the whole organization of the trip.

“The families and wives were all at this other hotel. 

“My wife was there so it wasn’t a case of me looking at any individual thinking they’ve done wrong, it was just a whole circus of the sports writers, journalists, and families and wives all being in the same hotel.

“There were stories breaking every day. ‘They’ve eaten here today,’ or ‘They’ve shopped here,’ – it was just a constant distraction.

“When the players went to their press conferences, they were being asked about it all the time.

“I just thought it was nonsense in the midst of a World Cup.”

Rooney claims reports of the WAGs excessive partying was “exaggerated” by the press.

Gary Neville of England playing in a World Cup quarter-final match.
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Neville was an ever-present for Sven Goran Eriksen’s side in the competition[/caption]
Referee showing Wayne Rooney a red card during a soccer match.
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Coleen’s husband Wayne infamously saw red in the quarter-finals against Portugal[/caption]

Coleen said: “There was lots of press in the hotel – all the sports writers were there, and the place was tiny, there were only a handful of places to go out, eat and drink.

“We couldn’t stay in a hotel all day, we had to go out and get food and enjoy ourselves.

“But because the press were on top of us they exaggerated things and made out that we were having these parties every night.

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“We weren’t. The sports writers were ten times worse than us – they were out all the time.

“I do think it was unfair the way we got called out for it, that we got the blame for having a good time.”

Gary Neville and Coleen Rooney were speaking on the Stick to Football podcast, brought to you by Sky Bet.

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Woman in her 40s & man ‘in late teens’ arrested over ‘manslaughter’ of teenager, 18, killed in house fire two years ago

TWO people have been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter after a horror house fire that killed a teenage girl.

Leah Casson, 18, sadly died after the tragedy in North Shields on January 16, 2023.

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Leah Casson, 18, dies in the house fire in North Shields[/caption]

Cops were called to the property on Vicarage Street along with fire crews.

Three people managed to escape the blaze – but unfortunately Leah’s body was later found inside.

Two people have now been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter.

Officers re-arrested a woman in her 40s.

A man in his late teens was also arrested.

They have been released on police bail while enquiries continue.

A spokesperson from Northumbria Police said: “We very much continue to look into the circumstances surrounding Leah’s tragic death.

“The investigation into the cause of the fire is complex in nature – and two years on we remain committed to establishing what happened.”

Leah’s family previously paid an emotional tribute to their daughter.

They said: “As a family we are totally devastated by what has happened.

“Leah was an outgoing, bubbly young woman who we loved so much, and we can’t believe she has gone.

“Please let us grieve for her as a family and respect our privacy at this time.”

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A woman in her 40s and a man in his late teens have been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter[/caption]

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I win the world’s most hilarious ultrasound thanks to my twins’ positions – people say the ‘disrespect is in 4D’

A MUM has left people giggling after sharing a hilarious ultrasound scan of her twins.

She encouraged other people to share their own funny ultrasounds, although added that she’s “yet to see an ultrasound that was funnier than mine”.

Woman showing off her ring.
A mum took to TikTok to share her hilarious ultrasound of her twin boys
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4D ultrasound image of twins in utero.
The picture showed that Twin B had their nether regions straight in the other twin’s eye
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4D ultrasound image of twins in utero.
People in the comments section hilariously said that the “disrespect is in 4D”
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In the video on TikTok, she shared a 4D image from her scan, which she went on to explain – despite people insisting they knew as soon as they saw it what was going on.

“This right here is baby A,” she said.

“This right here is baby B.

“This is one butt cheek. This is the other butt cheek.

“And that’s his balls right on his eye!”

She went on to share another snap from the scan video, as she laughed: “As you can see, he’s just sleeping, minding his business…

“He hid our entire pregnancy.

“This was the first picture we got of his face. And his brother gonna do that to him?”

In the video caption, she referenced 2008 movie classic Step Brothers, as she giggled: “It’s kinda like they are stepbrothers.

“‘Hey man, did you touch my drum set?'”

The comments section was immediately filled with remarks from people who had been left in hysterics by the video – including many ultrasound pros.

“Oh girl, you WIN,” one wrote.

“I’m an ER doc who did an ultrasound fellowship- I’ve seen a lot- this is absolutely the best one I’ve ever seen!”

“I’m a Sonographer and I haven’t seen a better ultrasound image,” another insisted.

“As an ultrasound tech I don’t think I’d be able to control my laughter during this scan,” a third admitted.

“I’ve been a sonographer for many years. This is the kind of scan I live for,” someone else wrote.

“As an ultrasound tech, stuff like this cracks me up!” another laughed.

While other people admitted they couldn’t figure out what would be funny about an ultrasound scan until they saw her video.

“Don’t tell them who is baby A and who is baby B ever. Just make them wonder their whole lives,” one suggested.

“The disrespect is in 4D,” another laughed.

“As a mom of sons, this picture should be at both of their weddings!” a third said.

“It should be featured!! This is the best sonogram ever!”

“Don’t show that to the kids until their 18th birthday where it will be printed on the cake,” someone else giggled.

“I GUARANTEE ain’t nobody got one better than that!” another commented.

“If one brother comes out with a birth mark near his eye, we know who baby A is,” someone else joked.

As another wrote: “Already such sibling behaviour, lmao!”

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Dad-of-three taken hostage by Hamas along with his kids on October 7 found dead in Gaza terror tunnel

A DAD who was taken hostage along with his three kids during the October 7 massacre has been found dead inside a Gaza terror tunnel.

The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) found the body of Youssef Ziyadne in an underground tunnel in the city of Rafah.

Photo of Yosef Al Zaydani.
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Yosef Al Zayadni, 53, has been found dead[/caption]
Aisha and Bilal Ziyadne reunited with their father after a hostage release.
Youssef Ziyadne’s children, Aisha and Bilal, reuniting with their family after being released during the November 2023 hostage exchange

His body was found along with evidence suggesting his son Hamza Zaydani may also have been killed, the Israeli military said.

Two other children of Ziyadne, who were also abducted at the same time, were released in an exchange of hostages for Palestinian prisoners that took place in November 2023.

The IDF added that Ziyadne’s body had been recovered close to the bodies of armed guards from Hamas or another Palestinian militant group.

It was not immediately clear how Youssef Ziyadne had been killed but his death did not appear to have been recent, said Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani.

He added: “We are currently investigating the circumstances of his death and we are also investigating the findings regarding his son.

“These findings raise concern for his life and they are still being examined at this moment.”

Shoshani said special forces soldiers had conducted a “complex and difficult operation” in a tunnel in the area of the southern Gaza city of Rafah on Tuesday.

Earlier Defence Minister Israel Katz said in a statement that the bodies of both father and son were recovered.

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UK MUST take back ISIS Brits including Shamima Begum, top Trump aide says after fears 100 extremists could flood Britain

DONALD Trump’s incoming director of counterterrorism has said the UK needs to welcome back British citizens who joined notorious terror cult ISIS.

But sources told The Sun as many as 100 extremists could flood the UK if jihadist bride Shamima Begum is allowed to return home from Syria.

Donald Trump and Sebastian Gorka together.
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Donald Trump pictured with Sebastian Gorka – one of his most trusted aides and incoming director of counter terror[/caption]
General view of Camp Roj in Syria, where relatives of suspected Islamic State group members are held.
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Camp Roj, where relatives of people suspected of belonging to ISIS are held, in al-Malikiyah, northern Syria[/caption]
Shamima Begum, a 19-year-old former Bethnal Green schoolgirl, in a Syrian refugee camp.
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Shamima Begum, the former Bethnal Green schoolgirl who fled the UK to join ISIS in 2015[/caption]

Trump man Sebastian Gorka said the UK needs to “honour” its commitment to the fight against ISIS by taking back dozens of Brits connected to it who are living in Syria.

This includes Begum, who left Bethnal Green for Syria as a teenager in 2015.

She lost a final appeal to reclaim her British citizenship last year, and is held in a prison camp in northeastern Syria.

Gorka told The Times: “Any nation which wishes to be seen as a serious ally and friend of the most powerful nation in the world should act in a fashion that reflects that serious commitment.

“That is doubly so for the UK, which has a very special place in President Trump’s heart, and we would all wish to see the ‘special relationship’ fully re-established.”

In 2021 Biden’s administration also called for the UK to repatriate ISIS members held in northern Syria.

They argued it was a “moral responsibility” – but applied less pressure than Gorka who is marking an incoming Trump term sure to be stronger on foreign policy issues.

Begum, 25, fled her home as a schoolgirl almost ten years ago to join death cult ISIS.

The Tory government revoked her citizenship — but there were fears she could use Bashar al-Assad’s fall to launch a fresh bid to return to Britain in recent weeks.

Begum’s lawyer Tasnime Akunjee said her hopes of returning were “bolstered” after the successful revolution.

ISIS terrorists brandish flags, guns and machetes on the border between Iraq and Syria
ISIS terrorists brandish flags, guns and machetes on the border between Iraq and Syria

But a source warned The Sun: “If Shamima is allowed back in it could open the floodgates to 100 others.

“The security services keep tabs on those people in Syrian camps with a claim to UK citizenship.

“They pose a risk and would take a massive amount of resources to watch.”

Prime Minister Keir Starmer is set to meet with French President Emmanuel Macron today at Chequers.

The pair are expected to discuss their response to the American demands.

Map showing Syrian rebels' 10-day offensive, resulting in Assad fleeing Damascus.
The fall of the Syrian government could prompt a return for Shamima Begum

Who is Shamima Begum?

ISIS bride Shamima Begum, who was born in Britain, was stripped of her British citizenship on February 20, 2019.

Begum had fled the UK in February 2015 with two other girls from the same school in East London to join the fledgling caliphate in Iraq and Syria which had emerged out of the chaos of war in those two countries.

On February 14, 2019, with the ISIS empire fell, she declared that she wanted to come home with her son.

But she appeared to show no remorse and called the 2017 Manchester Arena massacre of 22 people attending a concert “justified”.

According to BBC Middle East correspondent Quentin Sommerville, Begum “still believes IS propaganda”.

He said: “When I asked her about the enslavement, murder and rape of Yazidi women by IS, she said ‘Shia do the same in Iraq’.

“She had little to offer in way of apology to the millions of Iraqis and Syrians whose lives were destroyed by IS.”

Her principled position has sparked intense debate about the UK’s responsibilities to jihadis who despise the country and everything it stands for, but want to return from Syria.

The case took a dramatic turn on February 20 2019 when it emerged the Home Office had opted to strip Ms Begum of her British citizenship.

The 19-year-old claims she is “willing to change” her ways while pleading for “mercy” from Britain and says newborn son Jerah is sick.

Her appeals against the decision have all been denied.

A huge allied Western coalition has fought for years to tackle ISIS in Syria and Iraq.

The Syrian Democratic Forces – aligned with the West – has been guarding tens of thousands of captured ISIS members and their relatives in detention camps.

Some 20 British women, 40 children and ten men are thought to be among them.

Gorka’s comments were well received by UK terror watchdogs, who said British intelligence agencies would be able to closely watch those in question if they were brought home.

And Jonathan Hall KC, the independent reviewer of terror legislation, said: “Officials may not welcome this, but the numbers are not so great that — at least in the case of women, and children, for whom special considerations ought to apply on humanitarian grounds — the UK’s well-regarded counter-terrorism system could not absorb the risk.

“The burden of monitoring could be tempered, in high-risk cases, by phased return. At the very least there should be a presumption of return.”

America has been applying pressure on its allies to repatriate their citizens since the ISIS caliphate was squashed in 2019.

But Britain has traditionally refused to repatriate most of them with Labour saying it has no plans to change the policy.

Foreign secretary David Lammy said on Thursday morning that Begum will not be allowed to return to the UK.

He told ITV’s Good Morning Britain: “Shamima Begum will not be coming back to the UK. It’s gone right through the courts. She’s not a UK national.

“We will not be bringing her back to the UK. We’re really clear about that.

“We will act in our security interests. And many of those in those camps are dangerous, are radicals.”

Shadow home secretary Chris Philp also said: “I do not want to see people who actively supported this appalling regime who raped, murdered and persecuted innocent people back on the streets of the UK.”

And a government spokesperson said: “Our priority remains to ensure the safety and security of the UK.

“We will continue to do whatever is necessary to protect the UK from those who pose a threat to our security.”

Shamima Begum, a young woman in a niqab, sits on a bench in a Syrian camp.
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Shamima Begum has been living in a prison camp in Syria[/caption] Map showing ISIS attacks, arrests, and deaths in the Middle East since the Israel-Hamas war.

Who is ISIS?

ISIS, also known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, is a murderous terrorist network that officially formed in 2004.

The group, known for its barbaric public executions and beheadings, was originally part of al-Qaeda – the terrorists responsible for 9/11 which sparked the decades-long global War on Terror.

They took advantage of instability in Iraq and Syria after 2000 to rule with an iron fist.

After an injection of American troops into Iraq in 2007, ISIS lost some of its power grip in the region.

But it began to reemerge in 2011 and by 2014 the US had formed Operation Inherent Resolve.

The mission involved putting American boots on the ground in Iraq and Syria – as well as other regions in the Middle East.

In 2014, ISIS was the most powerful, best-equipped and wealthiest Islamic extremist group the world had ever seen.

By 2015 it had branches operating in at least eight other countries.

That October, their Egypt network bombed a Russian plane and killed over 220 people.

In November 2015, 130 were murdered and over 300 injured during one of their most brutal attacks on the West in Paris.

And in June 2016, a gunman who pledged himself to the murderous organisation killed at least 48 people at a nightclub in Florida. 

By December 2017, ISIS had lost 95 per cent of its stolen territory.

But its core ideologies, which included a burning hatred for the Western way of life, continued to inspire countless terrorist attacks around the world.

While American combat in Iraq was officially axed in December 2021, 2,500 troops were left stationed there to work as advisers and trainers for Iraqi security forces trying to fend off extremist forces.

There are believed to be less than 1,000 still stationed in Syria.

Three of those American troops were killed in Jordan on January 28 – in a drone attack at a US military base near the Syrian and Iraq borders.

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