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Having a ball at QPR
Reader Scott Jones e-mails to tell Notebook of the strange tale, with a happy ending, of the QPR ball.
When one was kicked into the crowd before their game against Barnsley recently, a supporter kept hold and decided to smuggle it out under his jumper, pretending perhaps to have a Neil Ruddock-type girth. He got cold feet, though, and fearing detection sold the ball to the man next to him for £5.
Mr Jones was that man and he smuggled it out in a large shopping bag.
He took the ball home but a day later a massive guilt trip set in when he discovered that match balls cost £90 - no mean amount for a club counting the pennies. He found out the e-mail address of QPR director David Davies and confessed. "It was kinda a 'do you want your ball back, mate . . . I'm an ########'" letter, Mr Jones admits.
Davies, admiring the fan's eventual honesty, suggested getting the ball signed by the players and auctioned to raise money for the youth team. In return, Mr Jones will get his own - legitimate - signed ball presented to him.
The one to be sold will fetch around £90 and details are on the eBay auction website under QPR.
See, as those nice chaps at Manchester United will tell you, honesty is the best policy.
When the standard were our friends ;D
Having a ball at QPR
Reader Scott Jones e-mails to tell Notebook of the strange tale, with a happy ending, of the QPR ball.
When one was kicked into the crowd before their game against Barnsley recently, a supporter kept hold and decided to smuggle it out under his jumper, pretending perhaps to have a Neil Ruddock-type girth. He got cold feet, though, and fearing detection sold the ball to the man next to him for £5.
Mr Jones was that man and he smuggled it out in a large shopping bag.
He took the ball home but a day later a massive guilt trip set in when he discovered that match balls cost £90 - no mean amount for a club counting the pennies. He found out the e-mail address of QPR director David Davies and confessed. "It was kinda a 'do you want your ball back, mate . . . I'm an ########'" letter, Mr Jones admits.
Davies, admiring the fan's eventual honesty, suggested getting the ball signed by the players and auctioned to raise money for the youth team. In return, Mr Jones will get his own - legitimate - signed ball presented to him.
The one to be sold will fetch around £90 and details are on the eBay auction website under QPR.
See, as those nice chaps at Manchester United will tell you, honesty is the best policy.
When the standard were our friends ;D
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