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Here’s... Sammy!

‘ALLARDYCE SMASHED UP A DRESSING ROOM DOOR LIKE JACK NICHOLSON’

- By ED GLEAVE ■ by DAVID O’DORNAN sunday@dailystar.co.uk

SEXY student Brook has got brains as well as her incredible beauty.

The Hull lass is one of our favourite Page 3 girls thanks to her perfect curves and stunning good looks. But her talents don’t end there. When she’s not stripping off to give her fans a thrill, she usually has her nose in a book.

The good news for us, though, is that she has got her studying out of the way for now, so she can focus on modelling.

Brook, 24, told us: “I am back modelling after a year off to study and go to uni.

“I’m ready to rock Page 3 again.”

We’d love to study every inch of her!

FOOTIE manager Sam Allardyce was like Jack Nicholson in The Shining when he smashed his way into a dressing room to confront a player. Former Fulham striker Leroy Rosenior claimed it took 20 men to hold back Big Sam after he put his fist through the door.

Pundit Leroy, 56, said:

“We were playing at Huddersfie­ld. Jeff Hopkins was a lovely fella but he mistimed a tackle and broke the opponent’s leg.

“It was horrible. Jeff was ashen-faced and, amid uproar, he was sent back to the dressing room. Allardyce was playing and wanted revenge. You could see it in his eyes.

“Towards the end of the game I went off injured and was sitting in the dressing room with a crestfalle­n Jeff when suddenly a fist came through the door.

“It belonged to Big Sam and it was like something from a horror film. Jeff and I scrambled into the showers as Sam was pulled away by about 20 men.” In cult horror movie The Shining, Nicholson’s character Jack Torrance loses his mind in an empty hotel after being taken over by supernatur­al forces. The most famous scene in the Stanley Kubrick flick, which is based on a book by Stephen King, involves Jack going after his wife Wendy, played by Shelley Duvall.

He takes a huge axe to the bathroom door she’s hiding behind before sticking his head through the broken panels, left top, while yelling: “Here’s Johnny!” Rosenior, left below, said West Brom boss Sam, 66, wasn’t the only defender players were scared of.

In new book Thou Shall Not Pass, by Leo Moynihan, he also tells how Arsenal star and fellow football pundit Martin Keown, 54, was a man to be feared too.

He remembered: “He’d send shivers down the spine. Martin was a good player, but he had these shark eyes and you didn’t know what was going to happen next.”

CAPTAIN Sir Tom Moore was given a hero’s send-off as the nation bid him farewell yesterday.

The NHS fundraiser received a 14-gun salute and an RAF flypast as he was laid to rest.

Six soldiers from his Yorkshire Regiment carried his coffin – draped in the Union flag – into

Bedford Crematoriu­m for a funeral Capt Sir Tom planned himself.

A C-47 Dakota soared overhead before the service, which was only attended by immediate family in accordance with Covid restrictio­ns.

They paid heartbreak­ing tributes to the man who became known as a “beacon of life and hope for the world” during the pandemic.

Both his daughters spoke at the service, while his grandchild­ren read poems.

It opened with a rendition of You’ll Never Walk Alone, which Capt Sir Tom recorded with Michael Ball and the NHS Voices of Care Choir.

Lucy Teixeira fought back tears as she said her dad “walked his way into the nation’s hearts”.

She added: “Daddy, you would always tell us ‘best foot forward,’ and true to your word, that’s just what you did last year, raising a fortune for the NHS and walking your way into the nation’s hearts.

“I am so proud of you – what you have achieved, your whole life and especially in the last year.

“You may be gone but your message and your spirit lives on.”

Hannah Ingram-Moore wept as she spoke of her father. She said: “Our relationsh­ip cannot be broken by death. You will be with me always.” She added watching him turn into a “beacon of life and hope to the world” was “magical”.

After she spoke, My Way by Frank Sinatra – chosen by Capt Sir Tom – was played to the eight mourners allowed into the crematoriu­m. A version of the song Smile, recorded especially for the funeral by Michael Bublé, was also heard.

Capt Sir Tom died aged 100 at Bedford Hospital on February 2 after testing positive for coronaviru­s.

The World War Two veteran raised around £33million for NHS charities by walking 100 laps of his garden.

Yesterday, church bells across the country rang out at noon in tribute to him and flags were flown at half-mast.

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GRIEF: The war hero’s family stand outside the crematoriu­m

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