Jack Grealish’s face looks concerned as he rushes through the Goodison Park tunnel after receiving a message from a Manchester City staffer.

Pictures and video show the moment after City beat Everton 3-1 on Wednesday night when the England star may have been informed about the terrifying raid on his country home that left his family ‘freaked out’ and £1million worth of jewelery stolen.

Manel Estiarte, City’s head of player support and protocol, rushes onto the pitch and sees Grealish pull aside before having a private conversation with him.

Grealish’s expression changes quickly as the situation is likely explained to him by Estiarte before heading straight to the dressing room.

It is believed 10 family members – including Grealish’s fiancée Sasha Attwood, parents, two sisters and brother – were watching the match before being alerted by dogs barking and noises upstairs.

The family were forced to flee and hide to take cover in the £5.6 million mansion that Grealish only moved into before Christmas, while police told neighbors to lock their doors and stay in their homes.

Police, fearing they would face a possible hostage situation, rushed to the scene and even ordered a helicopter to search the area, but the perpetrators were able to escape with £1 million worth of jewellery.

A source told the Sun: ‘The family is really shocked. The gang took a lot of watches and jewelry.

‘They carried out their raid as Manchester City were playing live on TV and his whole family had gathered downstairs to cheer him on.

‘No one was injured, but there was a lot of panic. Everyone was terrified because they were all so vulnerable.

‘It’s a huge building, so it’s understandable that no one heard anything at first. It was also the family’s first time visiting, so they were unfamiliar with the property.

“When the dogs went crazy and heard people crawling around, they pressed the panic alarm.”

Mail Sport’s Jack Gaughan reports that after City’s 3-1 win at Goodison Park, Grealish stormed down the tunnel at the end of the match, which looked unusual.

The England international played the full 90 minutes as Pep Guardiola’s side stormed to victory against the Toffees on Wednesday.

Estiarte is a key member of Pep Guardiola’s backroom staff at the Etihad Stadium.

He is a former Olympic water polo champion and a trusted confidant of Guardiola during his time at Barcelona, ​​Bayern Munich and now City.

The 56-year-old Catalan, who won gold for Spain at the 1996 Atlanta Games, is essentially Guardiola’s eyes and ears at the club and acts as a vital link between coach and squad.

Estiarte also keeps a close eye on media coverage of Guardiola and has been known to intervene personally, especially with Spanish journalists based in Manchester.

Estiarte is often seen at the back during press conferences to provide Guardiola with support when needed, and can be found on the bench during matches.

On Thursday morning, £100million player Grealish was seen looking at the paths around the property, which had a new security fence installed around it shortly after he moved in this year.

The seven-bedroom mansion is set in 24 acres of land and contains a helipad, tennis court, large football and cricket pitches, as well as a lake.

A van from a private security company was also seen outside the house on Thursday, as police officers left the property and knocked on neighbours’ doors.

A spokesman for Cheshire Police said: ‘At around 9.50pm on Wednesday, December 27, police were called to reports of a burglary.

‘The caller reported that some items had been stolen.

‘Officers supported by police dogs and the National Police Air Service were deployed and a search was carried out in the area, but no trace of the suspects could be found.

“No arrests have been made at this time and the investigation is ongoing.

‘Anyone with any information relating to the incident is asked to contact Cheshire Police on 101 quoting IML 1722738.’

The Cheshire incident comes weeks later West Ham star Kurt Zouma and his family were left ‘traumatised’ after an armed gang robbed their £3million home and stole £100,000 worth of cash and jewellery.

The gang of thugs ransacked the Hammers captain’s home in Essex late December 2 while he was relaxing with his wife Sandra and their children.

29-year-old Frenchman Zouma was missing from West Ham’s squad when they drew 1-1 against Crystal Palace after the raid. This led to a police warning to neighbors amid fears that an organized crime group could strike again.

News of the ordeal left West Ham fans stunned. The club offered a £25,000 reward for information leading to the gang’s arrest.

In a statement, the club said: ‘West Ham United have offered a reward of £25,000 for information leading to the arrest and successful prosecution of burglars who broke into the home of defender Kurt Zouma on the eve of the Premier League match of the club against Crystal Palace this weekend. .

‘Kurt’s house was broken into on Saturday while his entire family was in the house, leaving everyone present extremely upset. Although fortunately no one was injured, it was a traumatic experience for the West Ham United defender, his wife and their young family.

‘The burglars took items that were of great value and that were of great personal and sentimental importance to the family.

“The West Ham United family continues to offer Kurt’s family their full support.”

Former England manager Terry Venables has died at the age of 80 following a long battle with illness.

Venables masterminded England’s memorable run to the semi-finals of Euro ’96 after a successful club career as a player and then as a coach. 

He is survived by his wife of 32 years Yvette. A statement from the Venables family read: ‘We are totally devastated by the loss of a wonderful husband and father who passed away peacefully yesterday [Saturday] after a long illness.

‘We would ask that privacy be given at this incredibly sad time to allow us to mourn the loss of this lovely man who were were so lucky to have had in our lives.’

Tottenham Hotspur announced the death of their former boss on its X account as fans were arriving at the Tottenham Hotspur stadium today for their clash with Aston Villa in the Premier League.  

Match of the Day host Gary Lineker, whom Venables signed for Barcelona from Everton in 1986 and then brought to Tottenham in 1989 after he took the job at White Hart Lane, paid his own tribute.

‘Devastated to hear that Terry Venables has died. The best, most innovative coach that I had the privilege and pleasure of playing for,’ he wrote on X, formerly Twitter.

‘He was much more, though, than just a great manager, he was vibrant, he was charming, he was witty, he was a friend.

‘He’ll be hugely missed. Sending love and condolences to Yvette and the family. RIP Terry.’

Former England defender turned pundit Gary Neville described Venables as ‘without a shadow of doubt my number one England coach in my whole career’ in a social media tribute. 

England’s top scorer at Euro ’96, Alan Shearer, tweeted: ‘Extremely sad news the great Terry Venables has passed away. RIP Boss, I owe you so much. You were amazing.’ 

Richard Bevan, chief executive of the League Managers’ Association, said: ‘The LMA is deeply saddened to hear of the passing of LMA member and former LMA President Terry Venables.

‘Our thoughts are very much with Yvette and all of Terry’s family at this time.’

Tottenham Hotspur and Aston Villa players wore black armbands and gathered around the centre circle ahead of kick-off.

An emotional minute’s applause was held in tribute to Venables as fans stood and chanted his name. 

Writing on X, Tottenham said of their former manager, who guided them to FA Cup glory in 1991: ‘The Club is extremely saddened to learn of the passing of former player and manager Terry Venables. 

‘Our deepest condolences are with Terry’s friends and family at this incredibly difficult time.’

A midfielder for Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur and Queens Park Rangers during a 15-year top level playing career, Venables won two caps for England.

Moving into coaching, he guided Crystal Palace from the third division to the first in the late 1970s, before taking QPR to the 1982 FA Cup final as a second-tier outfit.

‘El Tel’ attracted the attention of prominent European clubs and took over at Barcelona in 1984, where he won the LaLiga title in 1985 and reached the 1986 European Cup final.

Venables won the FA Cup with Tottenham in 1991 but is best remembered for being England’s manager for their run to the semi-finals of Euro ’96 on home turf. 

Overcoming pre-tournament scandal when Paul Gascoigne and others were photographed drunk in a Hong Kong nightclub, the Three Lions achieved unforgettable wins over Scotland and Holland.

Eliminating Spain on penalties in the quarter-finals, they suffered an agonising shoot-out loss to Germany in the last four, with current England boss Gareth Southgate missing the decisive kick.

Venables would later coach Australia, Palace a second time, Middlesbrough alongside Bryan Robson and Leeds, before returning to the England set-up as part of Steve McClaren’s staff.

Tottenham will hold a minute’s applause and players will wear black armbands for Sunday’s fixture at home to Aston Villa.

‘We are extremely saddened to learn of the passing of Terry Venables, our former player, manager and chief executive, who passed away on Saturday,’ said a club statement.

‘We extend our sincere condolences at this sad time to Terry’s wife, Yvette, his close family and friends.’

Born in Dagenham, east London, as war raged in 1943, Venables went to live with his maternal grandparents aged 13 and his love of football was nurtured.

It wasn’t long before the talented schoolboy was attracting interest from Chelsea, Tottenham, West Ham and Manchester United, as well as turning out for England’s youth teams.

Venables chose Chelsea, signing apprentice terms at Stamford Bridge in 1958. He believed he stood a better chance of cracking the first team there, while the Blues also offered his father Fred a scouting job.

Having won the FA Youth Cup in consecutive seasons in 1960 and 1961, Venables was dubbed ‘the new Duncan Edwards’ when he made his senior debut for Chelsea against West Ham in February 1960.

Under Tommy Docherty, Venables established himself as a regular even if player and coach didn’t always see eye-to-eye. Chelsea slipped down to the second division in 1962 but returned at the first attempt and would achieve a fifth-place finish in the top-tier.

In what was a clear signpost for his future career, Venables took his FA coaching badges aged only 24, achieving a pass mark of 95 per cent.

He helped Chelsea win the League Cup in 1965, the first of many medals he’d collect, before joining Tottenham in a deal worth £80,000 the following year.

Making his presence instantly felt by punching Spurs club legend Dave Mackay during training, Venables went on to play a key role as they lifted the FA Cup in 1967, beating Chelsea 2-1 in the final.

But having felt unappreciated by manager Bill Nicholson, Venables moved on to Queens Park Rangers in the summer of 1969.

Although a second division side when he joined, Venables described his move to Loftus Road as ‘blessed with good fortune’ and they finally cracked promotion to the top-flight in 1973.

Venables ended his playing days with another London club, Crystal Palace, before arthritis forced him into retirement in 1974.

Despite representing his country at schoolboy, youth, amateur and under-23 level, England recognition was scant.

He won only two caps, both coming in 1964, but then Alf Ramsey’s World Cup winners were not short of quality. Venables made the longlist for the competition but not the final cut of 22.

Palace joined Malcolm Allison’s coaching staff at Selhurst Park straight after hanging up his boots before succeeding him as manager in 1976.

Placing full faith in youth, Venables built a successful Palace side dubbed the ‘team of the Eighties’ by the media. Peter Taylor was among them.

They won promotion to the second division in 1976-77 having finished third and two years later made it up to the top-flight as champions.

It occurred in slightly bizarre circumstances with Palace beating Burnley in a rearranged game played several days after all their promotion rivals had completed their seasons.

The win saw Palace leapfrog Brighton, Stoke and Sunderland to take top spot, denying their M23 rivals the title.

Venables’ team briefly topped the Football League that September but propped up the division when he departed for QPR in October 1980 amid financial strife.

Rangers were a second division side when they reached the 1982 FA Cup final, losing after a replay to his old club Tottenham.

Venables did take them up into the first division as champions in 1983, however, and it wasn’t long before glamorous Barcelona were knocking on his door.

Recommended for the job by Bobby Robson, his appointment at the Nou Camp coined the nickname ‘El Tel’ and proved a great success.

In three seasons in Catalonia, he guided Barcelona to their first league title in 11 years and also a Copa del Rey final.

But they couldn’t quite conquer Europe, losing to Steaua Bucharest on penalties in the 1986 European Cup final in Seville.

Setting Barcelona up in a 4-4-2, Venables brought British strikers Gary Lineker and Mark Hughes over to Spain with varying degrees of success.

Returning to England in 1987, Venables took over at Tottenham, helping them to the 1991 FA Cup after a 2-1 win over Brian Clough’s Nottingham Forest.

He later moved upstairs as chief executive following Alan Sugar’s takeover at White Hart Lane, having been passed over for the England job in favour of Graham Taylor in 1990.

But after Taylor failed to get England to the 1994 World Cup, Venables was given a shot even if there was discord in some quarters over his business dealings.

England qualified for Euro 96 automatically as hosts, leaving them playing a succession of tune-up friendlies. But ahead of the tournament, it was announced Glenn Hoddle would be replacing him regardless of how England performed.

Things started inauspiciously after pictures of Gascoigne and other players in the ‘Dentist’s Chair’ in a Hong Kong bar were plastered over the front pages.

But Venables kept faith with Gazza and was repaid with a stunning solo goal in the 2-0 group stage win over Scotland, before a 4-1 win over the Netherlands Venables described as ‘perfection’.

After a jittery win over Spain, England led through Alan Shearer in the Wembley semi-final with Germany, only to succumb on penalties when Southgate’s kick was saved.

His coaching career continued after that, with Australia and back at Palace, but without the earlier success. He coached Middlesbrough alongside Robson and was in charge of Leeds as their big spending caught up with them.

In 2014, Venables and his second wife Yvette opened a boutique hotel and restaurant in Penaguila, Spain, which they ran for five years.

Yvette had earlier helped run Venables’ private members club, Scribes West, in Kensington.

Nathan Cleary and Mary Fowler’s fans are no doubt wondering how they will keep their romance going when she returns to England to play for Manchester City this week – but the NRL star may have already answered their questions in a very revealing statement.

The sporting power couple took their relationship public on Wednesday in a series of stunning photos taken exclusively by Daily Mail Australia.

Those images came after speculation the couple started dating in August, when they walked along Sydney’s Nepean River and enjoyed an ice cream together.

That same month, Cleary referred to the Matildas when asked about making a huge career change that would pave the way for him to join her in Britain as her career goes from strength to strength.

Rugby Australia attempted to defect some of the NRL’s biggest stars at the time after securing the signature of Roosters sensation Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii – and Cleary gave a telling response when asked if he wanted to make the move himself to make.

One of the biggest draws that rugby union has for NRL players is the chance to participate in the code’s World Cup and play in front of a truly global audience – a fact not lost on the Penrith halfback.

“The Matildas, what they were able to do, you can’t do that in rugby league,” Cleary said.

“I think that’s the exciting part of a union, it’s on the global stage.

“If you did it for Australia that would be a big thing because Australia has kind of neglected the union for a while and it hasn’t been a big thing yet.

“I think part of it is an exciting prospect,” he told the paper Sporty news.

Although the governing body would want Cleary to play for an Australian Super Rugby team if he were to defect, he would attract huge interest from sides in Britain if he were to become available.

While most code-switched NRL players play at the back, Cleary is a generational talent at halfback who could make it in Britain’s biggest union competition, the Gallagher Premiership.

A start at an English club would not only bring him closer to Fowler, it would also be financially lucrative.

The league’s highest-paid player, Charles Piutau of the Bristol Bears, makes $1.9 million per season

Even a relative newcomer to the game, former NRL star Semi Radradra, takes home just over $1 million a year from the Bristol Bears.

Former South Sydney star Sam Burgess made headlines in both countries when he switched codes and played for Bath in the English top flight in a bid to play for his home country in the 2015 World Cup.

The Wallabies halves have been a weak spot for the team for some time and that was the case at the recent World Cup in France, where the team recorded their worst ever result in the tournament when they were eliminated in the group stages.

Rugby Australia is said to be desperate for a player with Cleary’s ability in scrum or fly half with the country hosting the World Cup in 2027 – using the event as a major draw to convince NRL stars like Suaalii to make the switch.

The Panthers kingpin is committed to the club until the end of 2027, but it has been proven that contracts in the NRL are easy to break if the player is willing to make financial sacrifices.

Additionally, the 25-year-old has conquered every mountain the NRL has to offer, winning three consecutive premierships and playing for NSW and Australia.

Cleary and Fowler’s high-profile long-distance affair brings back memories of rugby league star Solomon Haumono’s whirlwind relationship with British model Gabrielle Richens in the 1990s, with the league player taking drastic measures to keep the romance going.

Richens rose to fame in Australia after playing a stripper in a controversial Virgin commercial in which she was nicknamed ‘The Pleasure Machine’.

Haumono made headlines around the world when he left rugby league to be with her on the other side of the world.

In 1998, Haumono – who was then a contracted player with the Canterbury Bulldogs – flew from Australia to Britain to be with her without telling his family or club, only to end up back in Sydney the following year to play for Balmain.

Cleary wouldn’t pack up and leave in quite the same way, but he would be much better able to make a life for himself in England while branding himself as a major cross-code.

England Lioness Alessia Russo is as striking on the cover of the July/August edition of Women’s Health UK as she is on the pitch.

Russo, 24, swapped her soccer kit for fashionable sportswear to grace the cover of the glossy magazine — and she’s never looked better.

With her toned figure and long blonde hair, she looks just as comfortable in front of the camera as she does when she’s showing off her skills in front of thousands of cheering fans, but speaking to Women’s Health UK, Russo revealed she wasn’t always comfortable in her body.

“There’s a bit of a stigma because obviously you want to compete and be the best on the field, but you also want to look a certain way. Like many young girls [do]“I wanted to be skinny and compete at that level,” she said.

Russo once tracked everything related to food via an app, but now she says that such a strategy didn’t work for her.

“I know some people still use it [it], but… I was at a rock bottom with my food and with my weight. I wasn’t strong enough; I was not robust. I thought I looked great… but really, on the football field I wasn’t strong enough to compete,” the footballer admitted.

Focused on her sport and fully prepared to give her body all the nutrients it needs to keep her performing as an elite athlete, Russo added: “[Now] my body is still a big priority.

“But I understand that I have to eat a lot more than I thought at the beginning, and now I don’t want to be skinny, I want to be strong.” Nutrition plays a major role in how you feel and how your body reacts.’

Photographed in brightly colored Adidas sportswear, Russo revealed that she’s not afraid to show off her girly personality when she’s off the pitch.

“I like makeup, I like having my nails done, my hair done… you could ask male footballers the same thing: they like to dress up and get their hair cut all the time,” she said . .

“Only because we play a sport that is aggressive and contact [that] doesn’t mean we don’t like to pamper ourselves…[I’m] an athlete, but I am also a young girl who likes to be involved in that side as well.

“Some girls do it with their clothes…everyone has their own ways of expressing themselves outside of football.”

The 24-year-old Russo, who was part of the England squad that won the UEFA Women’s Championship last summer, was named player of the year at the first-ever Women’s Football Awards, leading some commentators to question whether she will be the next season to pursue the captaincy.

However, Russo makes no promises: “I don’t know if I’ll ever be a leader in the sense of a captain.

“But I think I can lead in other ways, whether that’s from the front, leading in my actions, in how I train, how I play, I’m not the most vocal person; I’d rather just do things.’

Russo’s interview with Women’s Health UK is comprehensive, covering the country’s World Cup chances, the importance of working together to achieve gender equality in football and the progress already made in raising the profile of the women’s game.

When it comes to the state of women’s soccer, she’s not shy to say she’s optimistic, especially as more money is now going to women’s soccer.

However, that does not mean that there is no distance to bridge. And ultimate success, says Russo, depends on people within the sport showing solidarity with each other.

“We will always support other teams when they go through such problems; it’s not okay and it wouldn’t happen to the men – so we don’t like to see it happen to the women.’

Excited about next month’s World Cup, Russo is excited about the chance to “make more history” but because “the [standard of the] women’s game is higher than ever’ she is certainly not complacent

“So there will be a lot of teams going there with the same ambition… I think that’s going to make it such a great tournament,” said the top striker.

• The full interview with Alessia Russo can be read in the July/Aug issue of Women’s Health UK, on ​​sale now.