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THE REFEREE at the centre of Jude Bellingham’s red card has revealing his “suffering” family have been sent “threats and attacks.”

Jose Munuera sent off Bellingham during Real Madrid’s 1-1 draw with Osasuna at the weekend.

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Jose Munuera says his family have received threats since he sent off Jude Bellingham[/caption]

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The England ace has been banned for two matches for swearing at the official[/caption]

The midfielder was left gobsmacked when he was given his marching orders for what he later claimed was a “miscommunication.”

Munuera wrote in his report that Bellingham said “f*** you” after a decision went the other way.

And the England ace was left facing a 12-match ban as a result of his actions.

Bellingham has today avoided the major suspension following an investigation from LaLiga.

He has instead been banned for two matches, meaning he will just miss games against Girona and Real Betis.

Real Madrid plan on appealing the two-match ban, with the club and Bellingham insisting he did not swear at Munuera.

But the ref claims the incident has seen his family receive various threats, saying they are under “attack” following his red card for Bellingham.

He said: “Today it was my turn, but how long has the committee been suffering these attacks? 

“They are vilifying my nephews, they are attacking my nine brothers, my 80-year-old father went to mass today and… I better keep quiet. 

“What are we creating? How can we show in a newspaper the barbarities that we are saying? Are we crazy? Are we controlling violence or promoting it? This is getting out of hand. What sport are we creating with football?

“Before they sent me another hundred thousand death threats or insults, I silenced my Linkedin account so that the same thing wouldn’t happen again. I’m not afraid, it’s for my protection and that of my family. They are in a bad way, very worried. 

“They haven’t asked me to stop because they know that’s impossible. My parents don’t deserve this.”

Meanwhile, the Mail reports that the official himself is under investigation from the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF).

It has nothing to do with Bellingham’s red card though, and is instead related to his ownership of Talentus Sports — a sports consultancy agency.

Alleged clients including Uefa, LaLiga and several football clubs.

The RFEF is reportedly investigating an incident based on Munuera’s “extra-sporting activities.”

But Munuera denies any conflict of interest, claiming: “I have been doing it for a year now, and I and other sportsmen give talks to companies of all kinds. 

“As an extra service, and that is where the whole mess came from, we offer a free service on Linkedin to the people who go to these conferences, without any kind of connection, let’s be clear, neither economic nor contact, in which we create a database with the job offers generated by sport, basketball, tennis, football.

“So that young people who have done a postgraduate degree in sport have a reference site to be able to see these job offers. Full stop. There is nothing else.”

ONE guaranteed thing in life is death but for one man, it felt like that would never happen as he was trapped in a coma for 10 months.

Enduring chronic pain and constant boredom, 27-year-old Jake Haendel found himself praying for his life to end, until he heard medical staff planning to turn off his life support.

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Brain disease survivor Jake Haendel recalled his experience being trapped in coma-like state for 10 months[/caption]

Speaking on the We’re All Insane podcast, Jake explained that he is the only survivor of an extremely rare brain disease called ATPL.

He is also one of the only people to recover from locked in syndrome, which is a often referred to as a coma.

In 2017, Jake was newly married and working as a head executive chef, describing himself as “able-bodied, able to do whatever I wanted”. 

However, he noticed he felt kind of weird one day, struggling with his balance and involuntarily swerving while driving.

Jake’s voice also got a little higher pitched and people close to him noticed he was “acting weird”.

“I remember walking down the halls of my house, having to reach out and hold the walls,” he recalled.

After two weeks of experiencing these symptoms, he decided to go to the emergency room.

His now ex-wife played a voicemail he had left for her for a team of doctors.

“They heard a totally different voice,” Jake explained.

“So I was admitted with stroke-like symptoms and given an emergency MRI.”

At this point he thought he would still be able to return home with some medication help whatever issue he was having.

“But life would definitely never be the same, in the morning, I woke up and there were about eight doctors in the room with somber looks,” he said.

“They said: ‘We’re so sorry, you have six months to live. You have an extremely rare brain disease’ and they laid it out for me.”

The medical experts explained that Jake would lose the ability to walk without support after the first month and would barely be able to tolerate sitting in a wheel chair after two.

“Months three and four, I will become bed bound and lose the ability to eat, swallow, and talk,” he recalled.

She said: ‘Don’t worry, he can’t hear you, he’s brain dead anyway.’

Jake HaendelBrain disease survivor

“In month five, I will slip into a coma, which is stage four of the disease, and probably pass away.”

All of their predictions came true but at the fourth and final stage, Jake defied the odds.

“I was given a ventilator to breathe, a feeding tube, all the hookups, the bells and whistles,” he said.

By the beginning of November he could no longer talk or even blink and eventually he noticed the medical staff stopped talking to him altogether.

“Two nurses were working on me and one said to the other: ‘I’ve got to tell you about this real awkward hook up I had last tonight,'” he recalled.

“Internally, I was still the same guy with the same sense of humour, I was like ‘Wow, this is the best thing I’ve heard in months. I can’t wait to hear where this goes.’”

When the other nurse warned her not to tell the story in front of a patient, her colleague’s response shook Jake.

“She said: ‘Don’t worry, he can’t hear you, he’s brain dead anyway,'” he told podcast listeners.

“So that was the first time I learned how I was perceived, I was like ‘Holy s**t, they think I’m brain dead.’

“I immediately felt panicked and I was like ‘I’ve got to let them know.’”

Minutes felt like hours, hours felt like days, days felt like months, months felt like years.

Jake Haendel

He described the “sheer panic” and “constant emotional and physical pain” he was in at this time.

However, Jake decided to spend his time “more wisely” and kept himself calm by testing his memory with maths problems and geography capitals.

He also spent what felt like hours recounting every detail of his childhood he could remember.

“Minutes felt like hours, hours felt like days, days felt like months, months felt like years,” he said.

Then one day, he heard a hospice nurse tell his then wife he had hours left to live.

“They say: ‘We’re really sorry your husband’s not going to make it to Christmas. It’s time for us to think about withdrawing life support,'” he remembered.

And despite wishing for death and fearing that he would remain in his locked in state for the next 40 years, Jake felt panicked.

“I was like: ‘No, don’t do that, I’m here,'” he said.

After making it through Christmas, he was moved to another part of the hospital, since he was neither dying nor getting better.

Jake described how one nurse would come in and “yap about her day”, even singing him opera on occasion.

Wow, I think this is dying, this is definitely death.

Jake Haendel

Another night shift worker would place her fist on his chest and tell him everything was going to be OK.

He described the level of pain he was in, with his bladder feeling like it was overfilling and his bones, muscles, and tendons feeling like they were in a vice grip being “twisted and contorted”.

Hypersensitive to the lightest of breezes, Jake said even his fingernails began to hurt.

He recalled how he would “lay there waiting to die” and one day he thought it had finally happened.

Jake explained that the volume of things around him became lower, as if his brain made it happen.

“Simultaneously, I start hearing a hum so it’s like this humming getting louder, their voices getting lower, until it was all hum and no more voice,” he said.

“Right when it was no more voice, it was like this chronic pain I’ve been in for so long starts to float away.”

Jake recalled thinking to himself: “Wow, I think this is dying, this is definitely death.”

However, he woke up some time later in constant pain once again.

Then one day as the doctors on his new ward were doing their rounds, he heard one of them say: “Hey, you guys see that? He’s moving.”

Research shows 30% of people in comas are likely locked in and talking to themselves and screaming inside just like I was for many months.

Jake Haendel

His colleagues insisted that it was an involuntary movement, referring to his brain scans and describing anything more as “impossible”.

“He said: ‘Hey, I don’t know if you can hear me but if you can, do that again,'” Jake recalled.

Describing the moment as his “one shot” he tensed up his body as though he was “trying to bench press 500 pounds”.

It worked and his medical status was officially changed, with doctors assigning him a non-verbal augmentative speech therapy to teach him how to communicate.

“They said: ‘I think he’s in there,'” Jake said, explaining how he would stick his tongue out to signal yes and blink to signal no.

He was then trained on a letterboard, taking 10 minutes to spell out the message he’s desperately wanted to send for months: “I can hear you.”

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After spending 10 months in a paralysed state, Jake went on a four-year-long recovery process to learn how to walk again[/caption]

This began a long four-year recovery journey for Jake, who was able to move to a 24-hour care unit in his native Boston in December 2020.

He is currently undergoing physiotherapy to learn how to walk with a cane.

In 2022, he started his company Ahoi, which he described as “Google Maps, Waze, and Yelp for personalised accessibility.”

Tests have not been able to determine what differed in Jake’s case compared to other patients with the same condition.

He has cited research which suggest covert consciousness is more common than we think.

“Research shows 30% of people in comas are likely locked in and talking to themselves and screaming inside just like I was for many months,” he said.