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Hi All,
I was hoping you guys would be able to help and be interested in purchasing a signed shirt from this season just gone. I'm a Newcastle Fan myself so the shirt in my possession holds no great worth to myself. I'll begin by explaining how it came into my possession.
I was on holiday with the wife and kids in Lincolnshire last week and we had programmed a place we wished to visit into the Sat Nav. Needless to say, when we "arrived" at our destination the place in question was nowhere to be seen. We drove round and round for a while until we decided to stop and ask some guy sat outside a holiday cottage if he could help us.
After kindly providing directions our conversation strayed to football and it so happened this gent called Steven (as much as I could get from him) worked for FIFA as a consultant on International/Football law. He regaled stories of working with Sven, Sir Bobby and Mark Hughes amongst others in his career through the game. He showed me pics of him and his son with Man City Players and we spoke about our favourite (and not so favourite) players.
Towards the end of our conversation Steven asked which football club I supported and asked if we knew any QPR fans. He had just been sent a signed shirt in the post that morning and graciously gave it to us when we suggested we could auction it off for a good cause. My wife teaches children to dance in her spare time and one of the fathers of some children whom she teaches saved his Brothers life a few years ago by donating Bone Marrow. Every year this family do something to raise funds for the Anthony Nolan Trust which deals with bone cancers.
As the shirt came so unusually into my possession I felt it would only be right to do something different to the norm with it - after all, I only usually give to the RSPCA if anything at all, so easy come easy go. I'd like to invite offers, potentially as an auction, starting at £100 for the shirt.
I thought this would be the best forum to advertise the shirt as hopefully it would mean something to you guys here. I spoke with the admin who suggested it would be ok to do so. I'm not so hot on working out which signatures are which (there are 23) although I'm sure again that you guys will be able to tell. Some of the players were kind enough to put their squad numbers under their signatures!
The number on the back is 32 with Wright-Phillips. All signatures are on the front. I've also put a link below to a recent the story in the local paper (we live in Ilkeston,Derbyshire) about the gents concerned.
My wife spoke to the brother last night and it so transpires their father is a QPR fan which makes the whole chance meeting even more strange!!! Apparently there are a number of QPR fans local to us.
OK, thoughts and opinions welcome, I haven't set any deadline on this yet. Good luck and best wishes for next season.
Steve
PS I'm trying to post a pic but it doesn't want to seem to upload?
Will try and add as a new post on this thread.
I was hoping you guys would be able to help and be interested in purchasing a signed shirt from this season just gone. I'm a Newcastle Fan myself so the shirt in my possession holds no great worth to myself. I'll begin by explaining how it came into my possession.
I was on holiday with the wife and kids in Lincolnshire last week and we had programmed a place we wished to visit into the Sat Nav. Needless to say, when we "arrived" at our destination the place in question was nowhere to be seen. We drove round and round for a while until we decided to stop and ask some guy sat outside a holiday cottage if he could help us.
After kindly providing directions our conversation strayed to football and it so happened this gent called Steven (as much as I could get from him) worked for FIFA as a consultant on International/Football law. He regaled stories of working with Sven, Sir Bobby and Mark Hughes amongst others in his career through the game. He showed me pics of him and his son with Man City Players and we spoke about our favourite (and not so favourite) players.
Towards the end of our conversation Steven asked which football club I supported and asked if we knew any QPR fans. He had just been sent a signed shirt in the post that morning and graciously gave it to us when we suggested we could auction it off for a good cause. My wife teaches children to dance in her spare time and one of the fathers of some children whom she teaches saved his Brothers life a few years ago by donating Bone Marrow. Every year this family do something to raise funds for the Anthony Nolan Trust which deals with bone cancers.
As the shirt came so unusually into my possession I felt it would only be right to do something different to the norm with it - after all, I only usually give to the RSPCA if anything at all, so easy come easy go. I'd like to invite offers, potentially as an auction, starting at £100 for the shirt.
I thought this would be the best forum to advertise the shirt as hopefully it would mean something to you guys here. I spoke with the admin who suggested it would be ok to do so. I'm not so hot on working out which signatures are which (there are 23) although I'm sure again that you guys will be able to tell. Some of the players were kind enough to put their squad numbers under their signatures!
The number on the back is 32 with Wright-Phillips. All signatures are on the front. I've also put a link below to a recent the story in the local paper (we live in Ilkeston,Derbyshire) about the gents concerned.
My wife spoke to the brother last night and it so transpires their father is a QPR fan which makes the whole chance meeting even more strange!!! Apparently there are a number of QPR fans local to us.
OK, thoughts and opinions welcome, I haven't set any deadline on this yet. Good luck and best wishes for next season.
Steve
PS I'm trying to post a pic but it doesn't want to seem to upload?
Will try and add as a new post on this thread.
(or £5 the season after when the kit design changes)
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