Bobby a gent and giant of football
SIR Bobby Charlton’s death at the age of 86 robs England of its best-loved footballer.
There will forever be debate as to where he ranks among the greatest stars.
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But there are many who regard the Manchester United and Three Lions ace as the finest we have ever witnessed.
And there can be no arguing with the view that he was the most exemplary role model to play the game.
In contrast to our age of pampered, often petulant, Premier League stars, Sir Bobby was a beacon of fundamental decency.
He had no sense of entitlement — despite the God-given gifts which would have brought him untold riches today.
A quiet, unassuming man away from the game, the fierce determination which made him a World and European Cup winner came to life majestically on the field.
It was his iron will and astonishing ability which hauled Manchester United from the Munich air disaster which killed eight of his team mates to European glory a decade later.
Married to wife Norma for over 60 years, he never attracted the merest hint of scandal as a devoted father and family man.
Sir Bobby’s death will be mourned across the globe.
And they will pay tribute to the greatest gentleman to have graced our national game.
Goodnight, Sir Bobby.
Stop funding terror
WHEN Russia invaded Ukraine, Britain led the world in targeting the wealth of tyrant Vladimir Putin and his brutal war machine.
Russian banks were hit with eyewatering sanctions while Putin’s billionaire cronies had their assets frozen and superyachts seized, with Roman Abramovich even forced to sell Chelsea Football Club.
So why has Hamas’s baby-slaughtering attack on Israel not led to a similar crackdown on the country most implicated in backing it, Iran?
Astonishingly, the regime’s fanatic Islamic Revolutionary Guard (IRG) is still not a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK, despite Home Secretary Suella Braverman demanding it.
Now we reveal two Iranian banks sanctioned in the US for funding Hamas are still operating with impunity in London — one just yards from the Bank of England.
If so much as a single penny traded in London ends up in the pockets of Hamas terrorists, it will be a national scandal.
Britain is rightly proud of its tough response to Putin’s invasion.
It’s time Rishi Sunak took the same approach to Iran.
Ban the IRG and tackle these banks immediately.
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