The good side of football and footballers

[Sutekh]

Instead of footballers being arrested and clubs going into crisis and players taking whacking great salaries for, seemingly, not much return, let’s have a positive thread celebrating the good that clubs and players do/have done in the world.

I’ll start with Mo Salah showing what a great human being he is

https://sputniknews.com/sport/202010101 ... ts-claim-/

Anyone got more?

[Simmops]

Rash Ford

[From Despair To Where?]

Instead of footballers being arrested and clubs going into crisis and players taking whacking great salaries for, seemingly, not much return, let’s have a positive thread celebrating the good that clubs and players do/have done in the world.

I’ll start with Mo Salah showing what a great human being he is

https://sputniknews.com/sport/202010101 ... ts-claim-/

Anyone got more?

Salah has built up quite a reputation locally for being a thoroughly decent bloke.

Also not to forget Everton FC generally for doing an absolute shitload of stuff locally like investing in failing schools, sheltered housing and running food banks, young offender rehabitation programmes and apprenticeship schemes.

[Sanguine]

Instead of footballers being arrested and clubs going into crisis and players taking whacking great salaries for, seemingly, not much return, let’s have a positive thread celebrating the good that clubs and players do/have done in the world.

I’ll start with Mo Salah showing what a great human being he is

https://sputniknews.com/sport/202010101 ... ts-claim-/

Anyone got more?

Salah has built up quite a reputation locally for being a thoroughly decent bloke.

Also not to forget Everton FC generally for doing an absolute shitload of stuff locally like investing in failing schools, sheltered housing and running food banks, young offender rehabitation programmes and apprenticeship schemes.

This was last year when a kid ran into a lamp-post chasing Salah's car after training - Salah did a lap of the estate and came back to find him.

[Sanguine]

Missus works at Fulham and found when she started at the club that it was always Scott Parker (who was playing for them at that time), Marcus Bettinelli, and one other, when it came to community stuff, supporting the club's charitable foundation, and so on. It was also Parker who arranged with LFC the pre-game tribute to a colleague of Mrs S who died last year. She also said that there are two or three players at the club known distinctly for their reluctance to engage in anything like that, but I guess you probably get that at every club.

[WestYorksRoyal]

Was it Reading legend Ulises De La Cruz who gave the majority of his earnings to a charity he set up to build schools etc. near his hometown in Ecuador?

[Sanguine]

Was it Reading legend Ulises De La Cruz who gave the majority of his earnings to a charity he set up to build schools etc. near his hometown in Ecuador?

That reminds me, Sadio Mane has so far funded a school and a hospital in the village in Senegal in which he grew up, and sent money to the region amidst the COVID crisis.