Credit where credit is due.....

[peteblue]

Liverpool FC captain Steven Gerrard was made a founding partner of Alder Hey Children’s Charity after donating £500,000 to the hospital.

The Reds star donated the half a million pounds raised from his testimonial match earlier this year.

Steven said: “It’s a great privilege to be able to be involved with Alder Hey and their charity, the work they do is phenomenal and the new build looks set to be even more impressive, and maybe a little less daunting visually for the children.


Nice one Stevie.......

 

[bluejock]

Fair one like, bloody good of him. You'll not get any cynicism from me here, he's done an amazing thing.

 

[roydo]

Fair play.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Fair play, a lovely gesture.

 

[Clint Planet]

Well done, Steeeeevie Lah.

 

[degsy]

Mr X donates 3 weeks wages and gets tax credits worth how much? good on him yeah fair enough, but it's all about scale 500K not only sounds a lot it IS a lot.

I would like to donate 3 days wages but such is my lack of spare it would be overdraft city

Like I said fair play to him but it's still about scale

 

[BlueLlama]

Mr X donates 3 weeks wages and gets tax credits worth how much? good on him yeah fair enough, but it's all about scale 500K not only sounds a lot it IS a lot.

I would like to donate 3 days wages but such is my lack of spare it would be overdraft city

Like I said fair play to him but it's still about scale

and he dowant have to put it in the media does he?

 

[orly]

Mr X donates 3 weeks wages and gets tax credits worth how much? good on him yeah fair enough, but it's all about scale 500K not only sounds a lot it IS a lot.

I would like to donate 3 days wages but such is my lack of spare it would be overdraft city

Like I said fair play to him but it's still about scale

It also spares him the 'Unbelievably wealthy footballer pockets testimonial cash' bad press. That 500k has given him great press in probably every newspaper this weekend. It's also not strictly ''his'' money - it was the proceeds of the game itself.

Still, I'm sure he has given plenty to them over the years, like Rooney has too. Fair play.

 

[bluejock]

And here comes the cynicism. Happy days lads, well in.

He's given half a million pounds towards helping sick kids get better. That's all there is to it. There's plenty of sticks to bash him with, this isn't one of them.

 

[orly]

And here comes the cynicism. Happy days lads, well in.

He's given half a million pounds towards helping sick kids get better. That's all there is to it. There's plenty of sticks to bash him with, this isn't one of them.

Of course. Everyone knows the only man in football who could do this without any recourse is Duncan Ferguson

 

[steken1]

Hasn't this been the done thing since Niall Quinn did it years ago?

Plenty of footballers are working class lads that do lots for charity, their communities and the various sports clubs they played in without it making it to the press. For that reason I rarely take a cynical view toward them.

 

[no way la]

Good stuff

 

[Pat's Van]

and he dowant have to put it in the media does he?

don't mind that really, more chance of other players hearing about it and doing likewise perhaps?

good on the 'orrible tw@t I say

 

[Woolly Blue]

Good on him, I dare say he does a lot of other things for charity that we know nothing about.
I wish the bugger would retire though, I'm sick of his accuracy with a dead ball.

 

[Jamo Martinez]

Fair play. Good example.