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Non GAA Discussion => General discussion => Topic started by: Norf Tyrone on August 10, 2008, 08:58:47 PM

Title: A Decent Football Story...
Post by: Norf Tyrone on August 10, 2008, 08:58:47 PM
After Aston Villa deciding to let a charity take their sponsor's spot for this season. Another decent footballer....

Former Luton midfielder Don Hutchison will sponsor two of the club's youth-team players, after refusing his final pay packet at Kenilworth Road.

Hutchison was released by cash-strapped Luton at the end of last season.

But the former Scotland international will now sponsor youngsters Scott Sinclair and Jake Howells for the forthcoming campaign.

"This is a truly amazing gesture by Don," Luton managing director Gary Sweet told the club's website.

"For a player to turn around and refuse his final pay packet and instead ask to sponsor a youth player is unheard of.

"This shows the type of man that Don is, and what football means to him."

Hutchison spent just one season at Kenilworth Road, after a career which included spells at Liverpool, Everton and West Ham.
Title: Re: A Decent Football Story...
Post by: Norf Tyrone on August 10, 2008, 10:45:43 PM
Don't think so TYP?
Title: Re: A Decent Football Story...
Post by: Mentalman on August 10, 2008, 10:59:27 PM
Good on him. Lost all time for him after some of his antics at Liverpool, but he has obviously matured with age.
Title: Re: A Decent Football Story...
Post by: AZOffaly on August 11, 2008, 04:35:17 PM
Your thinking of Tommy Hutchison TYP. He scored for Man City and Tottenham in the drawn 1981 game (before Ricky Villa scored 'that' goal in the replay).