Thousands Donated To Good Causes From Man Of The Match Award

By Tom Scott

The Vanarama Man of the Match award helped a number of charities last season with a pot of £9,200 dished out to good causes.

The Man of the Match selected in each of the 46 live games on BT Sport last season received a £200 donation courtesy of Vanarama to donate to their chosen charity.

Here are a few of the good causes that received donations...

Rainbows Hospice received £1,000 on behalf of Promotion Final winners Notts County.

Macaulay Langstaff, Sam Austin, Ruben Rodrigues and twice Jodi Jones all picked the charity for their donation.

Jeff King twice bagged the award - he and then Chesterfield teammate Andrew Dallas helped When You Wish Upon A Star with their donations.

Paul Mullin helped a cause close to his heart - Your Space - with his Man of the Match gongs from games against Notts County and Boreham Wood.

Scunthorpe pair Elliott Whitehouse and Jacob Butterfield helped three charities - Butterfield split his donation in half to help Lindsey Lodge and South Square Centre Trust while Whitehouse sent his to Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Prostate Cancer UK received an incredible total of £2,000, including a donation from on-loan Altrincham midfielder Eliot Newby following their win over York.

Two winners each from Barnet and Dagenham & Redbridge chose their clubs charity arm - The Hive Foundation and Dagenham & Redbridge Community Trust both received £400 each.

FC Halifax Town midfielder Luke Summerfield helped a fellow footballer when he donated his £200 to a fundraiser for Harrow Borough player James Taylor after he suffered a bad injury.

Wealdstone defender Jack Cook donated his £200 to Macmillan Cancer Support, Tyler Cordner gave his to the National Autistic Society and Chester's Declan Weeks helped Alzheimer's Society.

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