Sunday Mirror

TALE OF TWO JIMMIES DONE GOOD

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BRUTAL Instagram scenes from the Wilshere residence, as West Ham midfielder Jack has a kick around with his beloved wife Andriani.

All just a bit of lightheart­ed fun at first... until the old red mist descends and Jack demolishes Mrs Wilshere cynically from behind (right).

“The frustratio­n of isolation coming out, but to be fair the ball was there to be won,” wrote a defiant Jack of this ruthless lunge that took out both legs and upended Mrs W.

A red all day – possibly rating an enforced spell in the spare room, taking a long hard look at himself.

LOOKS like even Jimmy Bullard gets his own swimming pool.

And if you’re thinking that seems a bit rich, you’d be right.

One thing we’ve seen in this lockdown, getting a glimpse of the home lives of our footballer­s old and new, is they’ve got a few quid.

Not many carpets for some reason I still can’t fathom – but they’ve got a few quid.

Soccer AM star Bullard (left) never was a world-stage splash but shone bright, had some juicy contracts and paid his taxes. He was no Gareth Bale obviously. Bale is far away in a league of his own as Britain’s wealthiest footballer according to the 2019 Sunday Times Rich List.

Jordan Henderson, Harry Maguire, Troy Deeney and Mark

Noble – the Prem skippers driving the #PlayersTog­ether push that put millions into the NHS this week – will be second division.

But even Bale was still worth less than Jacob Rees-Mogg based on last year’s estimate by Spear’s, the ‘wealth management’ bible.

And that was before the Tory hero spotted any juicy ‘pandemic investment opportunit­ies’.

Gareth is skint compared to club owners like Roman Abramovich or

Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the Brexiteer chemicals giant, who was rated as worth nearly 200 Bales.

A bit like most top footballer­s, Sir Jim started life with not very much and made himself very rich.

Last year he was reported to be moving to Monaco, saving about 42 Bales per annum in UK tax.

In old money that’s the annual wages for about 160,000 nurses.

So a ‘back of the net’ moment for him, if not for the rest of us.

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