Newcastle players pay for assistant kit manager's hip replacement surgery

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George Ramshaw has a spring in his step once again, thanks to the generosity of Newcastle's players.

The Magpies' assistant kit manager, who played amateur football for the hugely successful Whitley Bay side of the 1950s and 1960s and also represented Great Britain, faced months in pain as he waited for hip replacement surgery.

However, once the players learned of the popular pensioner's situation, they clubbed together to raise the money to send him to a private hospital.


Head coach Steve Bruce said: "It was a lovely touch. Footballers get much maligned these days, but they organised a whip-round between them and raised something like £15,000 and sent him off to a private hospital to get it done.