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Hopes were high at Craven Cottage that the 1999/00 season would bring a Fulham push for promotion to the Premier League. Paul Bracewell’s team started the campaign strongly with a run of 15 games unbeaten in all competitions, but a sticky run that yielded very few victories at the end of the calendar year curtailed the team’s chances. The away shirt worn that season however, was a thing of beauty.

The shirt is added to our extensive retro shirts collection. It can be found on copafootball.com, via selected retailers & online resellers and in the Fulham FC fanstores. Previous Fulham merchandise is here  

I came across this challenging story on my Twitter feed today. Ivan Toney generously offered his match shirt to a Brentford fan who is need of help and I decided to offer my two grains of sand. Thanks, Ivan.

Jamie is 41 years old and lives in Ashford, Middlesex with his wife Carly. They have been married for 7 years and have 2 beautiful boys Jackson, aged 9 and Frankie aged 6.

Jamie is a plasterer by trade and works in the film industry at Shepperton Studios where he has been Head Plasterer on numerous film sets and TV shows.

Jamie is also a lifelong Brentford FC fan and season ticket holder at Griffin Park/Brentford Community Stadium. He has rarely missed a match and has passed this passion onto his 2 boys who join him on match days.

Their whole world was turned upside down in June this year (2020) when Jamie suffered a seizure whilst sleeping. He was hospitalised, put under numerous tests and scans and 2 months later delivered the heart breaking news that he was diagnosed with Osteosarcoma (a rare and aggressive bone cancer) of the skull.

At University College London Hospital (UCLH), Jamie is currently undergoing a course of chemotherapy, but he has been informed that this won’t really do anything other than slow the cancer. Following this chemo, Jamie would be given Rapid Arc Photon Therapy which the radiologist have advised will not cure his cancer – and only give Jamie months to short years to live.

Devastated isn’t a strong enough word for how Jamie, his family and friends are all feeling right now.

So what do we do? We fight! And Jamie’s family have heavily researched alternative treatment options within the UK and abroad. Sitting back at 41 with a young family, hopes and unfulfilled dreams ahead – there’s no way Jamie isn’t going to fight this with everything he’s got.

There is a renowned hospital in Boston, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) who have confirmed they will treat Jamie with Proton Beam Therapy!!

Proton therapy is a specialist form of radiation which only targets the cancerous cells and not the surrounding brain tissues meaning they can give him a much larger and more powerful dose. This means that no other parts of Jamie’s brain and skull will be damaged by the radiation which could potentially leave him with long term neurological problems – something we want to avoid.

Proton therapy is widely available in the United States, but due to cost, the UK only have 1 machine available in Manchester. This has a long waiting list and therefore Jamie isn’t a suitable candidate to use it.

The amazing doctors in Boston however, have given Jamie a chance. They have offered him a longer prognosis and are ultimately looking to cure him of this terrible disease.

Proton therapy will be followed by DNA sequencing and possibly Immunotherapy in months or years to come which is just unavailable on our NHS.

This is where you come in and we need your help!!

If you know Jamie – you know he’d do anything to help anyone – and he’s probably done something for you already over the years. If you don’t know Jamie – he loves his family with all his heart! He’s the hardest working person you’ll likely to come across in your lifetime and there’s nothing he wouldn’t do to help someone.

We need to get Jamie to MGH in Boston for this treatment ASAP. As you can see from how much we need to raise, medical treatment like this does not come cheap. It will cost a considerable amount of money as it will need to be paid for privately and this is where you can help by donating anything you can to get him to Boston in the next few weeks to commence the Proton Therapy treatment.

PLEASE – if you can donate anything, it doesn’t matter how big or small it is – every penny counts and please share the link on your social media platforms as we need to reach as many people as possible and as quickly as we can.

Donate here please.

You’ll be potentially helping to save his life and I know Jamie and his family will be eternally grateful for any contribution you can make.

Thank you so much

Jamie’s family & friends xx

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I am delighted to welcome another sponsor to the fold. They are UK Merchant Solutions Ltd from Manchester. They offer a full range of merchant solutions for businesses of all sizes. They will be the official provider for the Tuktuk Challenge.

Please do not hesitate to contact them if you have any requirements on

07591460142 or 0800 0029152 

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The World’s Most Expensive Link

I am delighted to welcome another new sponsor onboard. It is my friends at The World’s Most Expensive Link who have been with me right since the first Shirt journey in 2010. Thanks again!

The World’s Most Expensive Link is easy to own.

It simply always goes to the highest bidder. Why not add your link now for as little as a £1?

If you are outbid at anytime and knocked off the top spot you can top up your link to get higher up or back on top.

For Example, if somebody put on a link and it was topped up by £1 per week, a second link added 1 year later would need to pay £53 to get above the first link.

Links don’t devalue over time but will get lower in the list if higher value links are added.

If your links falls from the top spot it will still get long term recognition on Hall of Fame

Your link is guaranteed to stay live until at least December 31st 2022.

We encourage all participants to link to www.theworldsmostexpensivelink.com from their website.

The site is self-publicising in that the more people that participate the more people know about it.

Every time someone else joins the site they will see your link till at least December 31st 2022.

We send out a monthly newsletter by email to promote the site.

I was delighted to be sent this today from my friends at West Ham. I think it is a fantastic initiative and one well worth supporting. Congratulations and respect to everybody who brought these products to market.

To read more and order click here

The Sunday Mirror yesterday published the results of a poll among fans to find the Best Shirts Ever. Quite obviously, this was going to be very subjective but nevertheless the results were interesting.

Full list:
1 Napoli 90/91
2 AC Milan 88/90
3 Manchester Utd
4 Sampdoria 90/92
5 Juve 83/86
6 Real Madrid 95/96
7 Newcastle United 95/97
8 Barcelona 76/78
9 Ajax 94/95

A few moments later a fellow member of a favourite Facebook group, English Football of the 1980s, kindly linked to a 2015 poll which had some interesting alternatives and chose the West Germany shirt of 1988-1991. It was indeed an iconic shirt and was the very last shirt designed for West Germany pre-reunification in 1990 and the one they wore at Italia 1990.

Of course, this is really the best ever!

I was really excited to see the first posters for the challenge today. Great work by Dave Baldwin at Papilios Creative

Delighted to say that the boys at Lpool Pins jumped at the chance of being sponsors of the TukTuk challenge. They say, “We are match going fans creating LFC inspired pin badges for the fans. All products & sticker packs are available at http://lpoolpins.bigcartel.com. We offer worldwide shipping. All pin badges cost £5 plus postage.” I was hugely impressed with the quality and price of the pins and if they ever do them for my Gillingham I will be getting those too!

They are sponsoring the 10 miles into and out of their beloved Anfield. They continued, “We are very pleased to sponsor part of the challenge as the charity is close to our hearts. Hopefully it will make a difference to others in need.” You will find them on Instagram and Facebook too.

Welcome onboard.

Archbishop Paul Gallagher meets Rehman Chishti MP.

Rehman Chishti, the Member of Parliament for Gillingham and Rainham, and a close friend of the club, has met Archbishop Paul Gallagher, with a Gills shirt to be delivered to Pope Francis, head of the Catholic Church. 

The MP is in Vatican City for a few days and, prior to his visit, was given a couple of replica shirts by Chairman Paul Scally.about:blankout.stream powered by ADITION

Archbishop Paul Gallagher is the Vatican City’s secretary for relations with states, and has held this position for nearly six years.

Chairman Paul Scally said: “Rehman had told me he was heading to the Vatican so we made sure we got our hands on a couple of shirts for him to deliver. We look forward to seeing the photographs!”

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