GENEROUS Blues players have ensured fans stuck in hospital during Sunday’s big match will still be able to know what’s happening at Wembley.
Striker Neil Harris and his teammates have clubbed together to send Southend Hospital’s two radio commentators to the match so they can broadcast it back to patients.
The broadcast had been in doubt due to the high costs involved in broadcasting live from the home of English football, but thanks to the veteran Southend United striker and his teammates the show will go on.
Long-time commentator John Preston, who has been covering Blues games for nearly two decades, said: “We’re entirely reliant on donations and obviously going to Wembley will incur costs so it is a brilliant gesture from the players for the hospital and the people of Southend.
“When we reached the Playoff final in Cardiff in 2005 it was too costly to go there as a commentator so I went there as a fan, but Wembley means more to me than the Millennium Stadium ever will.”
Mr Preston and co-commentator David Alexander-Gordon, the son of James Alexander-Gordon, who has been reading the football results on BBC radio for the past 40 years, provide commentary from every Southend home game at Roots Hall and now at least they’ll be in place at Wembley.
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