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Freddie Flintoff admits he has felt ‘guilt’ over Ricky Hatton’s death.

Hatton was found dead at his home in Hyde, Greater Manchester, by his long-term manager and close friend Paul Speak on September 14.

On Thursday, a coroner’s court heard that Hatton was found hanged and was last seen by his family two days previously.

Flintoff, who attended Hatton’s funeral at Manchester Cathedral last Friday, said he was unaware of the former world champion’s struggle with depression until they sat down together and spoke on the ‘Hidden Side Of Sport’ documentary in 2012.

‘It was quite close to home in a lot of ways,’ Flintoff said when asked about Hatton’s death.

‘Ricky, one of the great men, you know, I met him years ago. We did a thing for Sky Sports and I went on the pads and he started hitting me and I was a fan as well.

‘He’s charming, he’s funny, our careers run parallel with each other at the height, at the same time. I went to his fights… we had nights out in the Press Club in Manchester and we’ve sung karaoke together and I never knew all these things that he was struggling with until we sat down.

‘When we started talking, obviously, he was so honest about what he had been going through and what he felt. And then, as he was talking, I was, like, relating to it. I’ve felt like that, that’s what I’ve been like. Then it just turned into a chat about two blokes being really honest.

‘I suppose that documentary changed and I wasn’t going to give as much away about myself but then felt obliged to actually if he’s doing this.

‘This working class hero from Manchester who goes into the ring, he fights, all heart. He’s funny. You see him like doing stand up routines at press conferences and he feels like this. And then obviously what’s happened over the past two weeks, it’s been devastating. For obviously his friends, his family but anyone who has been in contact with Ricky. I’ve been in contact with his manager Speaky, obviously he’s broken.’

Asked when he last saw Hatton, Flintoff said: ‘I sat with him a while ago on a train. I got on a train and he’d been somewhere.

‘We sat together all the way back up to Manchester, quite unexpected. I think it’s like all these things, when something like that happens. You speak and everyone says, ‘he seemed fine’, ‘he seemed all right’, ‘he was looking forward to fighting in the next few weeks out in Dubai’.

‘There’s almost a guilt… it’s like – how people didn’t know? The one thing I found cover the past few years, it’s happened to more and more people.

‘With Graham Thorpe in cricket… absolute great man, someone who is thought of so dearly by everyone who he played with and everyone he coached.

‘You just feel like, ‘if only we would have known’. But you know it’s terrible.’

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President Donald Trump has been duped numerous times by ‘pranksters’ before the UN escalator stoppage incident.

Piers Morgan has clashed with an Israeli war veteran over the death toll in Gaza, which could have surpassed 90,000.

Numbers shared by the Gaza health ministry suggest that Israel has killed more than 65,000 Palestinians since October 7, 2023, with another 165,697 people wounded.

But Benjamin Anthony, former Israeli Defence Forces sergeant, appeared to slip up on Piers Morgan’s Uncensored.

Tensions rose when he was questioned on the number of civilians killed in Gaza.

Piers asked: ‘Just to be clear, what is the total number of who have been civilians killed?’

Benjamin replied: ‘So the estimate currently is that there is something in the realm of one terrorist killed, and in that context, two civilians killed.’

Piers interjected, ‘So 60,000 civilians have been killed?’.

In the heated exchange, Piers breaks down the numbers suggesting that the former IDF sergeant believes the death toll is closer to 90,000 rather than the 60,000 as reported by the Palestinian health ministry.

Piers said: ‘Two civilians to one terrorist. 30,000 terrorists, two times that is 60, that’s 90,000 people have been killed.

‘That is way higher than the numbers given by the Gaza Health Ministry which you’ve tried to say are wrong.’

Civilians in Gaza City continue to face shelling as Israeli military push deeper into the enclave.

Local media in Gaza have reported the death toll stands at 51 today.

On Tuesday, the UN commission of inquiry said that Israel was committing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, but Israel denies the allegations.

‘What we are witnessing in Gaza is not only an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe, but what the UN Commission of Inquiry has now concluded is a genocide,’ a statement read.

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