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Watford FC kit to be shipped to Rwanda
4:40pm Tuesday 14th July 2009
Four carrier bags stuffed full of Watford Football Club training kit are to be shipped to Africa to help equip budding footballers.
The donations, all made by Watford FC to a national campaign, are to be flown to Rwanda, where young footballers in the war-torn country will be able to pull on the gear.
The donations were all made to the Conservative Party and the Tory election candidate for Watford, Richard Harrington, this morning popped into the Hornet's London Colney training centre to pick up the kit.
It will now be transported to the Houses of Parliament, where it will be piled high with donations from football clubs across the country.
Alistair Burt, the Conservative MP for North East Bedfordshire, will then lead a team of 100 volunteers to the continent this week, to deliver the goods.
After being presented with the kit by Watford FC stars Lloyd Doyley and Don Cowie, Richard Harrington said: “This is about helping a country where children have so little and we can give them a possible path to a better life through the generous actions of Watford FC and others.
“I will take the kits straight to the Houses of Parliament where the team of 100 volunteers will take them to Rwanda.”
Richard was joined by 15 young party who have joined the local party for the summer to deliver the kit.
Richard added: “I am so happy that Watford is part of this. The football club has given us so much kit and we would like to thank the staff, players, management and the the board for doing this.”
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Andyb, oxhey says...
6:51pm Tue 14 Jul 09
crazyfrog, Rickmansworth says...
6:56pm Tue 14 Jul 09
dogwfc, London says...
7:01pm Tue 14 Jul 09
gangerman, Watford says...
7:45pm Tue 14 Jul 09
RSIAP, Meriden says...
7:59pm Tue 14 Jul 09
dogwfc wrote:Cant see how running round Rwanda in a Watford kit is going to help these kids but hey dog if you think is the right thing to do,why not.
Wilkinson and crazyfrog. I am no PC person. But let me get thsi correct you are moaning about some kist being donated to young children who have nothing as a result of one of the most atrocious civil wars in teh history of manking where their whole families were probably butchered to death with machetes. Sometimes it is worth thinking before posting. It is just four carrier bags of clothes. Unbelievable some people.
Personally i would have thought a donation to an orphanage etc would have done the trick.....but then WFC would not be able to milk the photo opportunity,for all it was worth.
Gangerman.....your just a no-mark sheep,without an opinion and dog,i take it from your pigeon English,that your not local,or uneducated......
Wilkinson, Watford says...
8:10pm Tue 14 Jul 09
dogwfc wrote:Fair enough it is only a few bags of clothes, its more the way that both the tory party and Watford fc are trying to make themselves look good by doing it that i have a real problem with.
Wilkinson and crazyfrog. I am no PC person. But let me get thsi correct you are moaning about some kist being donated to young children who have nothing as a result of one of the most atrocious civil wars in teh history of manking where their whole families were probably butchered to death with machetes. Sometimes it is worth thinking before posting. It is just four carrier bags of clothes. Unbelievable some people.
If the tories really care about places like Rwanda then why doesnt Boris Johnson donate his £150k 2nd salary as a newspaper columnist to the cause, a some of money he described today as "chicken feed"?
I'm totally against football getting involved in politics. Why are Watford Fc jumping into bed with the tories of all people?
I appreciate the suffering in places like Rwanda, but would argue that country is nothing to do with us, their civil war is not our doing, you look after your own before others, and there are kids in the town who could benefit from such things, but of course a nine year old off the meriden is not as marketable as the cute little kids in Africa that we have all grown up feeling guilty about.
As i say a distasteful publicity stunt by all concerned.
hornets84, Qld, Aus says...
11:48pm Tue 14 Jul 09
morrismac, Berkhamsted says...
12:23am Wed 15 Jul 09
Because a Tory owns the club?
Jocky, watford says...
1:53am Wed 15 Jul 09
However how anyone can begrudge a couple of bags of kit being sent to a third world country is beyond me.
AnnoyingLittleB, W.Herts says...
7:16am Wed 15 Jul 09
I've got a couple of recent England shirts that could have gone. Mind you, finding a kid with a 44 inch chest might be a bit difficult!
:-)
AnnoyingLittleB, W.Herts says...
7:17am Wed 15 Jul 09
JonBoy, Watford says...
8:54am Wed 15 Jul 09
This is nauseating hypocrisy of the worst kind. How can he sleep at night.
Please do not forget the Israeli regime he supports when the general election comes around and he comes begging to you for votes.
SuperNova, islington says...
10:08am Wed 15 Jul 09
JonBoy wrote:We should send WFC kits to Hamas's Under-8's youth team.
Let me get this right, Harrington, boss of the Friends of Israel (who butchered how many children in Gaza?) is making political gain out of supplying WFC shirts to Rwandan children.
This is nauseating hypocrisy of the worst kind. How can he sleep at night.
Please do not forget the Israeli regime he supports when the general election comes around and he comes begging to you for votes.
Apparently their old kit was to small to conceal suicide bomb belts.
Garston Tony, Garston says...
10:15am Wed 15 Jul 09
imuskett, bushey says...
11:35am Wed 15 Jul 09
JonBoy, Watford says...
11:38am Thu 16 Jul 09
Garston Tony wrote:Who said there was anything wrong with the donation?
What a bunch of sad miserable old **** some of you are. There is nothing wrong with this donation or where it is going to so give it a rest
Garston Tony, Garston says...
4:24pm Thu 16 Jul 09
Wilkinson, Watford says...
6:56pm Thu 16 Jul 09
JonBoy wrote:You actually make a good point for once, Harrington is a low life and a complete hypocrite like the rest of green Dave's BlueLabour.
Let me get this right, Harrington, boss of the Friends of Israel (who butchered how many children in Gaza?) is making political gain out of supplying WFC shirts to Rwandan children. This is nauseating hypocrisy of the worst kind. How can he sleep at night. Please do not forget the Israeli regime he supports when the general election comes around and he comes begging to you for votes.
SuperNova, islington says...
9:42pm Thu 16 Jul 09
It's an abuse of a good deed to have a knock at Israel.
Thats hypocrisy of the worst kind and your an idiot for falling for it.
CallowlandChris, Watford says...
10:21pm Thu 16 Jul 09
On the other hand thought, the suggestion that said donation should have been handed out locally because Rwanda isnt our problem is rather heartles. Just because we didnt cause the civil war out there, it doesnt mean that we shouldnt help - I have never made anyone disabled but I still give money to associated charities! Poverty in Watford is nothing compared to parts of Africa and we have lots of lovely things like free hospitals as standard...
The point about Harrington's support for Israel is a important one, albeit treated somewhat emotively above. The facts are that he is right wing and supports the Israeli government, who in turn have done some truly awful things/ Harrington is no 'baby killer' but his politics and 'friends' make him a liability as long as Israel continues to commit war crimes.
SuperNova, islington says...
10:41pm Thu 16 Jul 09
I suggest you watch this instead of following the sheep.
http://zionism-israe
l.com/issues/Israel_
human_rights_kemp_ga
za.htm
Garston Tony, Garston says...
8:41am Fri 17 Jul 09
I agree that it would have been great if the public had been given the opportunity to donate kit as well but schemes like this have happened in the past and hopefully next time we will get a chance.
As to Rwanda, we may not have caused the civil war but we were happy to do nothing but watch whilst nearly a million people were butchered. Still I guess it wass their fault for not having any oil for us to protect
JonBoy, Watford says...
8:53am Fri 17 Jul 09
If he cared about deprived children from a war torm country he wouldn't support the Gaza child killers.
Why did Watford Football Club allow themselves to be politically manipulated this way?
I fully support aid to Rwanda and am very aware that none of the political parties did anything about the genocide there. It makes me sick that people like Harrington now decide to use Rwandan children to further his ambitions.
SuperNova, islington says...
4:36pm Fri 17 Jul 09
The Standards Institution of Israel has also ent representatives to Rwanda to conduct studies and workshops in an effort to improve the quality of the country’s agricultural products for export. They are working in conjunction with the Rwanda Bureau of Standards (RBS).
Now shut up.
Wilkinson, Watford says...
6:22pm Fri 17 Jul 09
Yes of course we're very lucky compared to most in the world, but to think that the answer is abuse the British taxpayer is wrong. If the politicians weren't in cahoots with the world banks then the African debt would have been written off long ago and these countries may now be self sufficient.
As i say, there are many children living in poor conditions here in Watford. Granted, maybe not as bad as Africa, but we should really sort out our own front room before we sort out others.
We are British citizens first, not world citizens. To think otherwise is largely the propaganda spilled out by the champagne socialists of the Lib/Lab/Con cartel.
Garston Tony, Garston says...
9:14am Sat 18 Jul 09
Instead of moaning about £1billion being given to third world aid hows about protesting how billions are being wasted in the NHS and other public sector, or how billions are handed out to lazy slobs via benefits
Wilkinson, Watford says...
2:17pm Sat 18 Jul 09
Garston Tony wrote:As i've said many times before i'm as much against slobs on benefits as i am foreign aid. The whole system is rotten to the core.
OMG, 'all this giving to foreign countries is wrong'. Did you really say that? Another person whose happy to sit by and watch millions people suffer and die. What exactly do you do for those suffering in this country Wilkinson anyway, how do you look after yuor own or does your own only extend to you? Instead of moaning about £1billion being given to third world aid hows about protesting how billions are being wasted in the NHS and other public sector, or how billions are handed out to lazy slobs via benefits
JonBoy, Watford says...
1:33am Sun 19 Jul 09
SuperNova wrote:No you shut up. The fact that Israel has helped 5 kids and run studies in Rwanda does not absolve it of the murder of Palestinian children.
Heart (SACH), in Israeli organization, has brought five Rwandan children with heart disease to Tel Aviv last week for operations. The children range in age from a few months old to 15 years old. They will be operated on in the Wolfson Medical Center in Tel Aviv.
The Standards Institution of Israel has also ent representatives to Rwanda to conduct studies and workshops in an effort to improve the quality of the country’s agricultural products for export. They are working in conjunction with the Rwanda Bureau of Standards (RBS).
Now shut up.
The Friend of Israel had no right to hijack my football club for his dirty political gain.
You show yourself to everybody here for what you are.
Garston Tony, Garston says...
9:47am Sun 19 Jul 09
SuperNova, islington says...
1:14pm Sun 19 Jul 09
JonBoy wrote:You better support another club then.
SuperNova wrote:No you shut up. The fact that Israel has helped 5 kids and run studies in Rwanda does not absolve it of the murder of Palestinian children.
Heart (SACH), in Israeli organization, has brought five Rwandan children with heart disease to Tel Aviv last week for operations. The children range in age from a few months old to 15 years old. They will be operated on in the Wolfson Medical Center in Tel Aviv.
The Standards Institution of Israel has also ent representatives to Rwanda to conduct studies and workshops in an effort to improve the quality of the country’s agricultural products for export. They are working in conjunction with the Rwanda Bureau of Standards (RBS).
Now shut up.
The Friend of Israel had no right to hijack my football club for his dirty political gain.
You show yourself to everybody here for what you are.
Like Iran's national squad.
Wilkinson, Watford says...
5:00pm Sun 19 Jul 09
Garston Tony wrote:No your not listening to what i'm saying Tony.
Wilk, ther eis a huge difference between someone in this country who is too lazy to get their arse off the sofa and work and some poor bugger who probably works their hands quite literally to the bone but still sees their family suffer from malnutrition or preventable/curable illness or whose life is/was under threat due to their tribe or because some local death merchants are fighting over some resources which is only valuable we in the west want it. And waht does this have to do with Israel anyweay?
I am against the abuse of tax payers money, whatever the cause.
For example, we give foreign aid to India. This is the same India that has the 2nd fastest growing economy in the world, (many UK I.T and call centre jobs have been lost to the region) and can afford to have its own space programme!
Explain to me why the money that comes out of my wages every month should go into a pot that is spent on places like that? Well obviously we know the answer is the government trying to win the British/Indian vote, a sizeable chunk, but do you think that is right? There are poor indians, but a lot of that is brought on by their cast system, again not something which i should be paying to make up for. Surely its up to their government to sort out? Why do we owe any other part of the world anything?
On the subject of Arica, its always been sh1t, and always will be. That's just a fact of life. Billions has already been thrown at it, with little improvement. People have just got to accept that certain parts of the world are poor and some are rich, yes in an ideal world we would all have the same amount of money, access to healthcare etc, but this is essentially communism, and that has been proved not to work. In an ideal world we would all be billionaires and be married to supermodels, sometimes we just have to accept our fate, and our place in the world, however low down the scale that may be.
I think John boy brought up the subject of Harrington being a friend of Israel to highlight his hypocrisy, how can he on one hand be all lovey dovey to some african kids, yet be in bed with an apartheid state that kills little arab ones?
The moral of this story is,
a) football should not be getting involved with politics. Watford fc should have learnt their lesson from their stupid campaign to allow "in danger" Al Bangura to stay in this country, the same Al Bangura who was popping back to Sierra Leone all the time to give his mother money and satisfy his many girlfriends out there.
b) We should not be giving money/gifts or anything to other countries until we end poverty in this country.
c) The W/O should not be giving hypocrite morons like Harrington any airtime.
Good Night.
SuperNova, islington says...
7:09pm Sun 19 Jul 09
A few lucky kids in Rwanda get some football kit and Wilkinson & JonGoy is jerking off on 'hypocrisy'.
Then, taking the **** out and ownership of African suffering by slamming Israel over it's false accusation of apartheid.
If I was jewish or black, I'd avoid you like the plague.
BTW, how do you feel about your tax paying for suicide bomb schools????
JonBoy, Watford says...
8:05am Tue 21 Jul 09
Richard Harrington receiving the kit from Lloyd Doyley and Don Cowie
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Wilkinson, Watford says...
6:09pm Tue 14 Jul 09
Football has become increasingly political in recent years, if people really believe that the tory party really care about Rwanda, when their MP's are claiming thousands in tax payers money, you are sadly mistaken. A distasteful publicity stunt, i would have thought the club would have learnt its lesson from the Bangura saga, and not get involved in such pc drivel!