I've Had to Pay Their Mortgages ... It's Been That Tough at Luton

Daily Mail (January 05, 2008)

Author: John Edwards

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MEMBERS of the football fraternity often don a Santa hat and do their bit for the local community at this time of year, but few can have looked as much like the genuine article as Kevin Blackwell.

Just before Christmas, the Luton manager answered a knock on his office door and was greeted by a plea of poverty from a player who could not meet his monthly mortgage payment.

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I've Had to Pay Their Mortgages ... It's Been That Tough at Luton

Not once, but twice. Each time he dug deep and staved off the threat of repossession with his own money, passing it off as a loan so his young players could save face, but admitting: 'I won't see it again. I have already written it off ...

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