http://www.southampton.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=323716 Sorry if posted elsewhere. This is really sad when things like this happen. I really wish I had a few grand spare as I'd buy it.
I understand why people sell these things. Someone sells it when you are gone anyway...might as well be you and see what happens to the money.
Yeah it would, some clubs like Man Utd do buy medals when they are sold by families, but obviously they do cost a lot of money (particularly for famous ex-Utd players), and we don't really have the same facilities to display them as they do. It's definitely true that footballers weren't the super rich celebrities they are now, and they're out of a job at 35 as well. Anyway, hope he gets some good cash.
Peter was the skipper, so his medal would maybe be more valuable. Still, 10 grand doesn`t seem a lot. I remember Mel scoring a thumping header at the Dell against Fulham when Moore and Best played.
Yes, according to the vital news item, it was former Saints chairman Peter Lowe. No, I don't know him either. Perhaps Lord Duckhunter might have a clue.
Get the fans of southampton to each club in with 50p or a £1 and the buy them to display at the club. Easier said then done I suppose. If somebody starts a trust il put £20 in to start it.
I had a wee next to Peter Rodrigues once if that helps.......perhaps on reflection, no....it doesn't really......
So Mel Blyth's nippers can have a nest egg, count me out. There are plenty more deserving causes connected with sfc than this one, plenty more.
And you really think its for that? Smell the coffee fella, don't believe everything you read and try reading between the lines.
Its winning the medal in the first place that is the important thing, those memories are more important that the actual medal. Of course, its sad that he feels he needs to sell it but even back then he would have earned more money that the average worker. I doubt he gets it out and looks at it everyday. I still have my trophy for leading goal scorer for St Denys 198something but where is it?
I find these stories really sad, when old athletes fall on hard times. It always seems to me that a winner's medal has value only to the person who won it, their family, or in the case of a football player, their club. Obviously I'm wrong though; Henry Cooper sold his Lonsdale belt, and various Olympic medals have gone on the open market. Anyway, I agree the most appropriate buyer would be the club, or else a group of supporters with the intention of displaying it at St Mary's somewhere; in the Mick Channon suite maybe?
Agree that the Club should buy it. ALthough will there be room in the trophy cabinet in years to come?
