Footballer to donate cash to terror victims (17.09.2001)
LONDON,
A star player with English Premiership side Tottenham Hotspur is to donate his win bonus payments to help families of those killed by the terrorist attacks and has called on others to do likewise.
Midfielder Tim Sherwood could earn up to 100,000 pounds ($150,000 US) in win bonuses this season.
He has opted to donate all the money to the fund after watching the bravery of firefighters as they continue to search for signs of survivors under the wreckage of New York`s World Trade Center.
Sherwood said: "Along with everyone else in the country, I was saddened and horrified by the events of last week in America," he told the Press
Association.
"I wanted to do something to help and this is the best way I can think of.
"Hopefully it will spark other players into doing something for the people who are suffering in America and for the families of those British people who have also lost loved ones in the attacks."
Sherwood`s gesture has the backing of his teammates at the London club.
Striker Les Ferdinand said: "There has been a lot of talk about what we may do as a team towards the disaster fund and we will be sitting down next week to decide on what we are going to do. I am sure it will be some kind of financial donation."
