West Ham winger Michail Antonio has fulfiled al promise made
to a Birmingham charity.
Good guy Michail pledged a signed shirt for Libby Mae’s Little Angels to founders Richard and Charlotte Sharratt, but ran out of time to post it before last Saturday’s auction for neonatal units across the region.
So he went out of his way to drive to Birmingham after West Ham’s home draw with Middlesbrough to deliver the shirt personally.
Antonio said: ‘I knew they wanted it for the auction that night, so I thought I’d drop it off after the game before carrying on to see my family.’
The charity has raised more than £135,000 so far after it was set up in memory of Libby Mae Sharratt who died at the age of just two weeks due to a heart defect.
The 26-year-old, who is an ambassador for the Guy Mascolo Football Charity in Battersea in the borough of Wandsworth where he was born, has enjoyed a meteoric rise to the England national team after starting his career in non-League.
Michail is in danger of giving footballers a good name! 🙂
COYI
Genuine nice guy stay with it Michael.COYI
Liked this guy before this story, like him even more now. Good fella to do that.