JACK GREALISH is raffling his cherished Aston Villa shirt from last season’s 1-0 win at Birmingham City to support the NHS.
The Villa skipper was shamefully attacked by a crazed Blues fan at St Andrew’s but recovered his composure to score his side’s second-half winner as Villa went on to clinch promotion back to the Prem.
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Jack Grealish is raffling his cherished Aston Villa shirt from last season’s 1-0 win at Birmingham, where he was punched by a fan, to support the NHS
Now Grealish has revealed he is ready to support the battle against coronavirus, by donating one of his most prized possessions for a raffle, with all proceeds going to the NHS.
Grealish posted on his Instagram account: “To show my support to the NHS I’m holding a raffle for one of my favourite match day shirts, with the money raised going to the NHS Charities Together fund.
“If you’d like to enter and support my fundraising effort just click the link in my bio.
“The signed shirt I’m giving away is the one I wore in last season’s 0-1 win against Birmingham City at St Andrews where I scored the winner.
“Everyone knows how important that match was to me.
“This was a big win against our rivals and continued our march towards promotion.
“To be in with a chance to win, all you have to do is donate a minimum of £10 and a winner will be chosen at random next Sunday at 7pm and announced on my Instagram account.
“For every £10 you donate you will receive an entry into the raffle, so a £20 donation would get you two entries and so on. Please tag your mates to let them know they can enter!”
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Grealish was widely criticised recently for breaking lockdown rules and was hammered by Villa.
He was forced to issue a grovelling apology after admitting he had attended a late night party at the flat of former team-mate Ross McCormack – just 24 hours after posting a video message urging people to stay at home last month.
The midfielder, 24, was pictured outside McCormack’s apartment at 8am close to a Range Rover that had struck a number of parked cars and left the scene after leaving his details with a resident.
Grealish was fined £100,000 for his stupidity and he issued a grovelling public apology.
Grealish has already raised well over £20,000 in less than 24 hours and, one fan was even willing to donate the shirt BACK to Grealish if he won the raffle.
Villa supporter Matt Lavell said: “If I ever won that top I’d be delighted to give it back to you Jack Grealish, you should keep it and treasure it mate. You’re too kind.”
However Grealish confessed he made sure he kept his identical spare shirt from that match.
“Ah I definitely do treasure it,” said the 24-year-old Villa skipper.
“We have two tops for every game, one for first half & one for second half. So I have one framed and then I have this one which I will auction off.
“There’s certain tops that I keep from games usually only one, but that game I had to keep the two of course!”
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