Dalglish and Vera Lynn come to the rescue

When the chips are down there is no industry like football for rallying round - everyone from Peter Reid's old Merseyside rival Kenny Dalglish to Dame Vera Lynn is helping Plymouth's fight for survival.

Reid has donated his Everton losers' medal from the 1986 FA Cup Final against Liverpool at Wembley to a charity auction for the club.

He said: "That brought back a few memories of a day I thought I'd forgotten. A couple of days after the final we were due to go on an open-top bus tour of Liverpool, but I couldn't face it.

"I told Howard Kendall, the manager, I wouldn't be going and asked how much he'd fine me. He said two weeks' and I happily paid up - and had a few bevvies in the pub instead. I'll happily donate that medal!

"We need cash to keep the club afloat on a daily basis, but people have been fantastic.

"We've had some amazing stuff - Kenny sent a signed Liverpool shirt, Sir Alex Ferguson has sent us something. And we've got a print of a Spitfire over the white cliffs of Dover, signed by Vera Lynn.

"There's an Argentina shirt signed by Ossie Ardilles, Ricky Villa and Mario Kempes, a West Ham 1965 Cup shirt signed by Hurst and Peters and an Everton shirt signed by Gazza."

Source: Sunday People

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