Pepe hands out food

There may be a lot to dislike about Pepe the professional footballer, but it would appear that “Pepe the human being” is actually a thoroughly decent person.

Just as he did last January, the oft-maligned Real Madrid centre-half spent his Thursday night distributing emergency food parcels to the most disadvantaged residents of his local neighbourhood of Las Rozas, Madrid.

According to Spanish paper AS, Pepe, who apparently attempted to perform his charitable act with “the most discretion possible”, paid for 9,000 kilos of food himself with each parcel containing staple items such as rice, flour and tinned vegetables and handed them out personally to the families in his neighbourhood.