Popular Post JAMAICAN-VILLAN Posted June 16, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted June 16, 2016 http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/side-aston-villas-gabby-agbonlahor-11485515? Quote The other side of Aston Villa's Gabby Agbonlahor Villa striker thanked for generous gift Gabby Agbonlahor has been thanked for donating money to help a Birmingham woman's fight against cancer. The Aston Villa striker has pledged a sum of £1,000 to boost the fundraising appeal of Laura Brooks. Laura was diagnosed with bowel cancer last December and has set up a justgiving page to raise money for cancer research. HobokenVilla @CoachDarbs @HeartOfTheHolte @TheVillaView_ MASSIVE THANKS G.Agbonlahor for his generous gift to my cousins fight against Cancer https://crowdfunding.justgiving.com/laura-brooks 10:13 PM - 16 Jun 20168 Retweets Her cousin posted on Twitter thanking Agbonlahor for his 'generous gift'. On the justgiving page was this message: "Good luck I hope u can fight it and get the cure loads of love gabby agbonlahor ❤️" Laura is hoping to generate cash towards three areas of research that could potentially cure her type of braff mutated bowel cancer. So far the mother of three has been able to raise more than £33,000. To find out more about Laura's appeal and to donate please visit her fundraising page here 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Villa View Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Yeah we were tweeted about this earlier. Fair play to the guy for doing this, deserves the credit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villan_of_oz Posted June 16, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted June 16, 2016 (edited) So he donates 1/60th of his weekly income and im meant to be impressed. Ive given more than 1/60th of my weekly income to multiple good causes and never got recognised for it.... mind you i didnt do it for recognition. Sorry Gabby your a tightass give one weeks wages (which you didnt earn anyway) then maybe I'll tip my hat to you..... Edited June 16, 2016 by Villan_of_oz 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Donating £s - Losing lbs, something, something, funny joke . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 donating £1000 for gabby is like me donating a tenner 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Thomas Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 (edited) Fair play to Gabby for giving her a few bob. It isn't the amount that matters to me, but the fact that he bothered to do it. This, of course, has nothing to do with football and the fact that he let himself and the club down last year. I think we all know he hasn’t performed for years now and he is one of the players that we really need to move on; even if we have to pay to make that happen. I think a move might actually do him good. Find a club where he can play regular football, maybe rediscover some old form and start enjoying the game again. He seems to have been going through the motions here for quite some time and that ain't no good for him or us. Edited June 17, 2016 by Gary Thomas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bobzy Posted June 17, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted June 17, 2016 10 hours ago, Villan_of_oz said: So he donates 1/60th of his weekly income and im meant to be impressed. Ive given more than 1/60th of my weekly income to multiple good causes and never got recognised for it.... mind you i didnt do it for recognition. Sorry Gabby your a tightass give one weeks wages (which you didnt earn anyway) then maybe I'll tip my hat to you..... Really don't see what Gabby has done wrong here. There's not much recognition for it - he's donated £1,000 to a good cause. Good on him. I swear some people just look to knock players irrespective. Currently, Agbonlahor is the main target. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villan_of_oz Posted June 17, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted June 17, 2016 17 minutes ago, bobzy said: Really don't see what Gabby has done wrong here. There's not much recognition for it - he's donated £1,000 to a good cause. Good on him. I swear some people just look to knock players irrespective. Currently, Agbonlahor is the main target. He has thrown some spare change and put his name to it, he could of easily done it anonymously like everybody else does. I do take your point but I have long had an issue with wealthy people not sparing a bit more... but that is a whole other topic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obanken Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 16 minutes ago, Villan_of_oz said: He has thrown some spare change and put his name to it, he could of easily done it anonymously like everybody else does. I do take your point but I have long had an issue with wealthy people not sparing a bit more... but that is a whole other topic. But we don't know if he donates more to other causes. Regardless of the amount I think it's good to see that he at least cares. The next thing I want to see is either that he is working his socks off, or that he is off. If he was doing the former I guess we should have heard about it by now unfortunately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delphinho123 Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 If Gabby could lose 3/4 stone, trim down on all the muscle and become as lean as he was when he was 22/23, he'd be an absolute weapon for us next year. He wont though, he's made his money and has no motivation to do so,. Shame, as getting rid will be hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post weedman Posted June 17, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted June 17, 2016 3 hours ago, Demitri_C said: donating £1000 for gabby is like me donating a tenner And did you donate a tenner? 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 No doubt when the headline says "The other side of Aston Villa's Gabby Agbonlahor" they mean the cheap side ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 It's a nice gesture from Gabby, the money is nothing to him but probably means a lot to the family. Don't think he did this with any thought of improving his reputation among us fans, because that's not how it works. Cristiano Ronaldo does this sort of things on a weekly basis (much bigger sums of course) and most fans still think he's a ginormous bell end because of how he behaves on the pitch. If this is the last thing Gabby does as a Villa player (and I hope it is) then it would be a nice farewell note. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 25 minutes ago, weedman said: And did you donate a tenner? Sorry gabby I nope i didnt mean to cause you any offence, please try and lose some weight for the new season. Good nickname though perfect for you as thats how you seem to spend your time outside of football Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Spoony Posted June 17, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted June 17, 2016 Stunned and a bit embarassed some of you are having a go at Gabby over this. He donated to a good cause, he donated a grand which will have made a big difference, I doubt he asked for any recognition for it and it hasn't actually got anything to do with Villa or him being a footballer. Get off his back. Criticise him for what you like when it comes to Villa, but not this. If this is the reaction he gets he'd be better off not donating at all... 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAMAICAN-VILLAN Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 17 hours ago, Villan_of_oz said: So he donates 1/60th of his weekly income I was waiting for some absolute dross like this, do some of you have no limits? He has actually done things like this in the past, and has been a large part of the acorns movement etc although that shouldn't be the point anyway. Should he be donating ALL of his salary, why don't you do the same? I am sure most people on here, even his most vitriolic criticizers either avoided the topic altogether, or gave props where it is due, since it's not football related. Your post was frankly childish, petty, and pathetic. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 i doubt there is a single person on here who couldn't afford to give more to any of their chosen charity's. I wish people didn't try and use how much somebody does or doesn't give to charity as a stick to beat them. Partly because it makes you look really small and mainly because I wouldn't feel the need to stick up for this clearing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferguson1 Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 I very much doubt that Gabby would have wanted any kind of publicity over this because he is then open to possible criticism as shown on here. A case of damned if you do, damned if you don't....etc. Moreover, he could be making these type of gestures several times a week for all we know? Many aspects of Gabby I don't like but this gesture is certainly not one of them. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted June 17, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted June 17, 2016 (edited) I think the whole fraction of someone's wages argument doesn't really apply in instances like this. If someone earns £100 a week, a 10% charitable donation is gonna be felt more by that person than someone else who earns £1000 a week and donated £100. Obviously it's the same proportionally but in practical terms it's not really the same. Having said all that, it's a thoroughly decent gesture by Gabby and goes some way in helping the lady in question. So fair play Gabby. I doubt she'll read this, but my best wishes to her in her fight to overcome this. Edited June 17, 2016 by Shropshire Lad 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alreadyexists Posted June 17, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted June 17, 2016 The guy can't win, he's voluntarily given some of his own money, to a cancer charity. Obviously he could afford more, but I think it's a nice gesture. Speaking from the point of view of someone who was recently affected by cancer, any sort of raising of the profile, publicity or donations can only be a good thing. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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