A footballer with multiple Champions League winners medals recalls how he often encountered the same young boy waiting at the gates of a Premier League club’s training ground whenever he left. Out of habit and sympathy for the youngster who would be there come rain or shine, he would roll down his window and sign a number of items. It would take no more than 30 seconds.
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A few weeks in, the player asked the boy why he wasn’t at school. ‘My dad pays me not to go to school,’ he said. ‘He drops me off to get everything signed, then picks me up. We make more from this than his normal job.’. Selling signed memorabilia is a lucrative business, with some football shirts going for four figures and now more than ever, independent sellers are popping up left, right and centre using social media to cash in.
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Earlier this month, a video emerged of Pep Guardiola telling autograph hunters off near his home. ‘Do you want to live your life doing this, honestly?’ the Manchester City boss asks. ‘Don’t come again, I won’t tell you again. I know your faces.’.
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Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola has been a target of autograph hunters who are often stationed near his home. Footage shared online shows Guardiola blasting autograph hunters and told them not to approach him again. Pep Guardiola giving autograph hunters a lecture! 🫡 “You want to spend your life doing this?” pic.twitter.com/0RFLeosmNX.
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