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A COKED-UP DJ nicked a boat and is now begging fans for £10,000 to keep him out of jail.
Martin Dickson hauled off the Montauk Boston Whaler – worth £22,000 – from a remote harbour in Fife and dumped it without its £6,000 engine.
Last week a sheriff ordered the 52-year-old to hand over compensation to raging owner Robert Green.
But hours later Dickson launched an online fundraiser.
He claimed he needed cash to keep his drum and bass party bus on the road and originally made no mention of the bizarre heist.
Dickson said: “I have to put my hands out now and ask for some major help or it’s gonna be devastating.
“I’ve been in court today and I am now at the point where the judge is telling me I have 4 weeks to get myself £10,000 together or spend a long time in jail – three yrs and upwards.
“My problem is I never ask for anything in my whole life. I love doing what I do and I get plenty of thanks for bringing the love to your town or city for all the big events.”
Robert appealed for help after his brand new boat was taken from Forth Cruising Club in Limekilns.
He told how he’d only been out on it once before and he was looking forward to a trip with his son, aged nine, and his pal.
But the kids were devastated when they turned up and discovered the spot was empty.
Robert said: “We worked bloody hard and saved for the boat.
“We weren’t insured, thinking we were safe in the village and thinking the CCTV would be enough.”
Dickson managed to break the wheel and engine locks to take the boat.
He was caught on CCTV towing it away in a silver Range Rover sport in the early hours of the morning.
Cops found it dumped nearby but without the engine. Officers traced Dickson to his home in Glastonbury after the incident in June 2021.
He appeared at Dunfermline Sheriff Court last Wednesday for sentencing after earlier admitting theft.
The Courier told how his lawyer Ian Beatson revealed the DJ has links to Scotland and had been “abusing cocaine” at the time of the theft.
Mr Beatson said: “He is completely bewildered as to why he did it.
“He can not provide any motivation other than stupidity on his part. He very much regrets it.”
Social workers suggested Dickson get unpaid work, which was rejected by beak Susan Duff.
She postponed a decision to give him time to get a bank loan to cover the compensation.
She said: “I am not considering following the recommendation in the report, which is ludicrous when someone has stolen a boat worth £22,000 and left the owner of the boat with a bill of £10,000.”
Dickson was hit with a backlash after the real reason for his fundraiser emerged. In five days he’s taken in just £333 of his £10,000 target.
It’s still live, but Dickson suggested he was putting the bus up for sale to cover the compensation.
He said: “I know matey boy lost his boat so it’s only fair I lose my bus.”
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THIRTY-THREE years on from THAT iconic Olympic moment, Derek Redmond is not ready to limp off into the sporting sunset.
The British sprinter tearing his right hamstring in Barcelona and being helped along the track by his dad, Jim, has gone down in history.
Footage of him in agony, trying to finish the 400 metres semi-final on one leg despite officials attempting to usher him off the track, has been viewed more than 100MILLION times on YouTube.
Yet Redmond’s life is so much richer and more interesting than that one incident — and there is still lingering frustration that he failed to make the final!
Six months before turning 60, he has two burning aspirations.
The first is to train for a final white-collar boxing bout, preferably “against somebody my weight and my ability — and if that person happens to be 20 or 50, so be it”.
His second dream is to play for Britain’s over-55 basketball side at the FIMBA World Championships in June in Ticino, Switzerland.
Redmond said: “Why am I doing all this?
“I suppose the easiest answer is I’m not a pipe and slippers guy.
“I’ve never really stopped competing in some form of sport since Barcelona.
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“There’s something quite cool and nostalgic about pulling on a British vest again and that excites me.
One of the coaching staff contacted me and said, ‘Are you still playing basketball, would you be interested in having a conversation about this?’.
“As soon as he said that, I saw it as another challenge.
“Last August it was rubber-stamped and they said, ‘You’re in the squad’.
“I’m one of these people who never say never. You never know what might happen around the corner.”
Redmond’s preparations were hindered by a sore Achilles in the first training camp and then a pulled hamstring — but not THAT hamstring, the left one.
Redmond, who is based in Northamptonshire, added: “I guess I have to manage my body a lot more cautiously at 59 than I did aged 19 and 29.
“As you get older, you also have to train a lot smarter, which I’m starting to do.
“I’m a former Olympic athlete but I get out of breath doing my shoelaces just like any normal person.
“I’m not Superman. But it really comes down to your attitude.
“I don’t look nearly 60. I don’t act 60 and don’t dress 60.
“It’s a state of mind. If you feel like, ‘Oh God, I’m now 60, that’s it, it’s all over’ then what you think is what your body will generate into.
“I’m proud of the fact that when I’m on stage for my motivational speaking and I reveal my age, people say, ‘You’re what? 59?’.
“Being 60 in 2025 is like being 40 . . . 45 years ago.”
Redmond — whose father died in October 2022, aged 81 — became a 4x400m relay world champion alongside Roger Black, John Regis and Kriss Akabusi in Tokyo in 1991.
Following athletics and various surgeries, he played professional basketball for Birmingham Bullets and England, was an international motorcycle racing team co-owner and survived the challenge of Celebrity Gladiators.
There were also stints in rugby sevens, kick-boxing and amateur boxing and he now goes clay pigeon shooting up to twice a week.
All these experiences will come in handy when he is shooting hoops for his country.
Redmond, a dad of four and grandad of five, said: “I don’t want to be there because my name is Derek Redmond.
“I want to go there and add my bit to the team.
“I’m hoping to bring a little bit of international competition experience — albeit mainly from different sports.
“I’m not the world’s best three-point shooter. I’m not putting in bombs from anywhere on the court. I’m not Michael Jordan!
“But I’m not going to put myself through all this, all the injuries and problems, just to make up the numbers.”
- Derek Redmond is now Head of Training & Development at HR consultancy Champions (UK) plc. To book him for a high-performance training programme, visit championsukplc.com
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WYNNE Evans has been tipped for a spot on a huge ITV entertainment show after his reported axe by GoCompare.
The shamed Strictly Come Dancing star, 53, is said to have been dropped from the comparison site’s adverts in the wake of two scandals.
Wynne first found himself in the headlines last year after he appeared to move his hand around pro dancer Katya Jones‘ waist on a live episode of Strictly.
Katya swatted him away and they later laughed it off.
Then, at the beginning of the year, Wynne was sacked from the Strictly tour amid accusations he used inappropriate language to pro dancer Janette Manrara.
Wynne dismissed it as an “in-joke” that tour colleagues were in on, and has even hired lawyers to clear his name.
But despite the scandals, experts are claiming he will still likely land another job on a high profile telly show.
Poker publication Card Player has odds on the Welsh opera singer appearing on the next series of I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here!.
The series is due to take place in November in Australia and the company reckons Wynne could be heading Down Under.
Card Player has given impressive odds of 5/1 for Wynne becoming an I’m A Celebrity campmate.
The company has also placed him at 7/1 for a place in the Celebrity Big Brother house when the series kicks off next month.
Lee Astley, spokesperson for Card Player, said: “Wynne Evans will be considering his options after reportedly being axed from the GoCompare adverts and we reckon there’s a firm chance the opera singer is being lined up for a stint in the I’m A Celebrity jungle this year.
“We go 5/1 that Evans will appear down under on the ITV show, while he is 7/1 to feature in the Celebrity Big Brother house next month.”
The Mail On Sunday reported that Wynne has been dropped from any work with the GoCompare site.
A source told the newspaper: “The whole ordeal has been a real headache for GoCompare.
“It’s been a tough decision for them because Wynne is undeniably a major part of their branding.
“It’s also been tricky to even have him in the current ads, so it’s best not to have him filming for the next ones.”
The Sun has contacted GoCompare and Wynne’s representative for comment.
Wynne was also suspended from his BBC Radio Wales show earlier this year following accusations he used inappropriate language on the Strictly tour.
A friend recently revealed he will take a 30-page defence dossier into showdown talks with the BBC.
Wynne Evans' Strictly scandals
‘Grope’
Wynne encountered a backlash after his Strictly pro partner Katya was filmed removing his hand from her waist.
Fans insisted she looked uncomfortable as she moved it away – but Katya later insisted there was no problem.
In joke
They then sparked further fury, when she was seen refusing to high-five the Opera singer.
The duo were quick to issue a video apology and insisted it was all an innocent “inside joke”.
Crude joke
Wynne came under fire for allegedly telling a “crude” joke to one of the show’s make-up artists.
Insiders claim the opera star made a joke that the folds of his double chin “looked like a vagina”.
A source said: “It was a bit of a vulgar dad joke.”
Vile comment
Wynne was recorded suggesting a three-way sex session with presenter Janette Manrara, using the term “spit roast”.
His remark came at a photocall to launch the Strictly live tour, which pro Janette, 41, is hosting.
He reportedly pulled a suggestive face at actor Jamie Borthwick as Janette moved between them — which is when Evans allegedly made the joke.
Wynne has apologised saying: “My language was inappropriate and unacceptable, for which I sincerely apologise.”
The source said: “As far as Wynne is concerned, he has been wronged.
“He understands the language he used was not appropriate but it’s all been taken so out of context.
“Wynne has got a legal team in his corner and he has a 30-odd page dossier which he thinks will help his case.
“He absolutely loves his job on BBC Radio Wales and having to step back from it in the wake of his [Strictly] dismissal was heartbreaking.”
Gareth Southgate was close to Man Utd job but now England’s most successful manager in decades looks done with football
HE was England’s most successful manager in half a century and was only a couple of penalty kicks away from being regarded as the greatest of all time.
He has represented the Three Lions, as a player and manager, more often than any other man.
He is a knight of the realm, who is respected in wider society to such a degree that he delivered the prestigious Dimbleby Lecture at the BBC last week.
Yet, at the age of 54, Sir Gareth Southgate may be finished with football.
The former defender was closer than many would believe to becoming Erik ten Hag’s successor at Manchester United.
Dan Ashworth, United’s short-lived sporting director, pushed his candidacy strongly and left the club soon after he failed to persuade United’s ownership.
Meanwhile, Southgate’s advisor Jimmy Worrall also has close links to Ineos chief Sir Jim Ratcliffe.
But the United job was an outlier.
If Southgate did look to return to club management, he would be unlikely to land a job at a higher level than his previous club role at Middlesbrough almost two decades ago.
Despite leading England to successive Euros finals, as well as a World Cup semi and quarter-final — and despite transforming the once-rotten culture around the national team — Southgate’s stock as a manager has not risen significantly.
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While the FA are keen to employ Southgate as a consultant, that doesn’t appeal to the former manager, who believes his presence on the payroll would not be beneficial to Thomas Tuchel nor any future Three Lions boss.
The idea of returning to media punditry is regarded similarly.
New England chief Tuchel may have criticised the performance of Southgate’s team at last summer’s Euros — although he only really echoed Southgate’s own public comments during that tournament.
But Sir Gareth will not be responding in kind. He is too classy and decent to give it back to Tuchel.
There is also a feeling that international management, rather than the club game, suited Southgate perfectly.
Most great club managers are single-minded football obsessives.
Southgate has a more curious mind and the England role allowed him a wider remit, which he relished.
The themes he expressed in his Dimbleby Lecture — on the challenges facing young men in the social media age — are dear to him.
He helped many England players greatly, as people as well as footballers.
And if Southgate headed back into football management any time soon, he would do so without his hugely-trusted No 2 Steve Holland — who is keen to make it as a manager in his own right and is currently the boss of Japanese club Yokohama F Marinos.
Southgate always regarded his England role as a partnership with Holland, believing the pair counteracted each other’s strengths and weaknesses.
He may feel isolated in management without Holland’s presence.
A boardroom job in football isn’t on the agenda either.
He may have looked good in a waistcoat during the 2018 World Cup but, professionally speaking, a tracksuit is more Southgate’s style.
So what next, if there is no return to football?
The Dimbleby Lecture — given on the personal request of BBC director-general Tim Davie — wasn’t his first weighty speech since his exit.
Southgate showed during his England reign he is a more effective politician than most politicians. His ‘Dear England’ letter before the Euros in 2021 spoke to the nation better than anyone in the House of Commons could.
But there is apparently no chance of a bid for Parliament.
Despite being branded as ‘woke’ — an insult which shouldn’t even be an insult — Southgate isn’t party political.
He’d probably have more in common with Sir John Major than Jeremy Corbyn.
That Dimbleby Lecture championed traditional family values as well as Southgate’s deep respect for the military.
He is a quiet patriot, not a raving lefty and not even close friends could tell you which way he votes.
As for a job in business, Southgate is said to be equally uninterested.
Unlike many in football he isn’t an obsessive chaser of the next five-pound note.
He doesn’t need to work but equally recognises that even a senior job in industry would only pay a fraction of that on offer in managing a lowly Premier League club.
And anyway Southgate is patriotic and old-school enough to have regarded the England job as the pinnacle of his profession.
Should his journey of self-discovery lead him away from the game which made him, he would be a great loss to football.
Fighting relegation, as he did unsuccessfully at Middlesbrough in 2009, isn’t currently on his wish-list either.
Had Southgate landed the United job he wouldn’t have been a popular appointment among supporters — despite doing the kind of transformative job with England that they are crying out for at Old Trafford.
And the sad truth is he wouldn’t be welcomed with widespread jubilation at any top-flight club.
His image as an overly-cautious manager is overstated but not entirely untrue.
He never played for nor managed clubs which expected to win silverware and never quite shook off that mindset as expectations rose with England.
So what next for a man who is significantly younger than most who have just departed England’s ‘impossible job’?
Having succeeded the likes of Bill Clinton, Bill Gates and King Charles in giving that Dimbleby Lecture, Sir Gareth is yet to find his calling, post-England.
But should his journey of self-discovery lead him away from the game which made him, he would be a great loss to football.
Flair’s fair for Ange
THERE was much online merriment when a Tottenham legends team — featuring Dimitar Berbatov, Jermain Defoe, Robbie Keane and Aaron Lennon — hammered AC Milan’s old boys 6-2.
The obvious joke, that the veterans could still beat Ange Postecoglou’s first team, was barely even funny because it is possibly true.
Yet the flair of some of those Spurs players of the not-too-distant past also showed that Postecoglou’s devil-may-care style was more in tune with the club’s ethos than most of his recent predecessors.
The expectation is that Spurs will wilt in a hostile atmosphere against Eintracht Frankfurt in next month’s Europa League quarter-final and that will spell the end for Big Ange.
If so, that would be a shame. Spurs might not be very good under Postecoglou but at least they are recognisably Spurs.
IT was so sad to see Scotland relegated from the top tier of the Nations League by virtue of a 3-0 loss at home to Greece.
And the poor old Tartan Army couldn’t even get a drink at Hampden Park.
Despite their great national thirst, booze is still banned inside grounds north of the border, as it has been since 1981 — just about the last time the Scots were any good at football.
Lennox all Hart
THE warm tributes to The Sun’s legendary ‘Voice of Boxing’ Colin Hart — who died on Saturday aged 89 — were rich, poignant and greatly appreciated by his family.
It was especially interesting to read the words of Lennox Lewis and how he felt driven to win over a sceptical Harty on his journey to becoming heavyweight champion of the world.
The media landscape has changed hugely since Lewis and Colin enjoyed their verbal sparring en route to an immense mutual respect.
There are now often too many obstructive PR people between elite athletes and journalists.
As Lewis agrees, that is to the detriment of sportsmen and women, as well as to the media and the public.
If the World Cup started today Marcus Rashford wouldn’t be in the XI – latest England performance sums up his struggles
MARCUS RASHFORD was given another chance by Thomas Tuchel — but again failed to shine.
If you were to scribble down your starting XI for next year’s World Cup, Rashford would not be included.
And the 27-year-old’s frustrating performance in the 3-0 victory over Latvia summed up his struggles at club level over the past couple of seasons.
He created six chances according to the stats — but it did not feel like it.
The Manchester United forward, currently on loan at Aston Villa, played with bags of positivity in the first half.
He had too much pace for the Latvian right-back Roberts Savalnieks.
And he also supported his defenders on the rare occasions the visitors attacked.
Rashford was certainly acting on the criticism dished out by boss Thomas Tuchel for not being direct enough in the win over Albania.
Equally, the killer pass was not there. And after switching to the right in the second half, he barely had a kick before being replaced by Curtis Jones.
Rashford is not the only player to fail to cause havoc in the final third during two lacklustre England performances.
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But the competition down that left position is nowhere as strong as it has been in the past.
Jack Grealish’s career has gone backwards while Phil Foden has under-performed for England and moaned about being played out on the left during Euro 2024.
Anthony Gordon, injured for this game, would be your man in that spot if the World Cup started tomorrow.
Eberechi Eze also looked decent on the left when he came on and scored a deflected third.
But Rashford still has a chance — purely because his international boss seems desperate for him to succeed.
Tuchel has started him in back-to-back games, a luxury he has barely been afforded for club or country over the last 18 months, and an indication of just how far Rashford’s star has fallen.
He lasted 74 minutes before being replaced against Albania on Friday and was afforded just five more minutes than that at Wembley last night.
Tuchel has only signed a short-term contract and although he has thrown Myles Lewis-Skelly into the mix, looks determined to stick with experience.
Rashford — who won his 62nd cap — comes into that bracket.
And when the German announced his squad for these two games, Tuchel praised Rashford’s workrate for Villa — something he was often criticised for at United.
It is still early days for him under Villa boss Unai Emery. His nine appearances have included just two starts and he is yet to score.
The last time Rashford found the net was his brace in United’s 4-0 win over Everton on December 1.
When Rashford did find his way past Savalnieks in the first half last night, his final pass was not good enough.
After swapping flanks with Jarrod Bowen following the break, he played a small role in the build-up to the second goal scored by Harry Kane — but otherwise was still not involved enough.
Maybe fatigue due to his lack of games was a cause.
But you would still expect Rashford to remain in the squad for England’s next two games in June — a World Cup qualifier in Andorra and a friendly with Senegal at Nottingham Forest’s City Ground.
When you consider the rotten time Rashford has endured of late — much of it self-inflicted — he is lucky to be back in the England team.
The jury remains out on whether he can make the most of that good fortune.
