Sorry, I can't help you with details of the T-Shirt, but I do have a little bit of a side story to offer in relation to the Sierra Leone stuff.
My dad worked over there for 5 years with the main guy who set up the supporters club over there, & got Armarni involved. He's an absolute saint of a man (my dad's mate, not my dad - he's a red so we'll airbrush him from the rest of the story...boooooo)!!!!
Anyway, suffice to say, when Armarni first came over here, my dad's mate made some incredible sacrifices to facilitate his visit (the club weren't as heavily involved as they are now at this point). I won't go into detail here, as I've never met the guy, & I'm sure he doesn't seek any praise or publicity; he just seems to want the best for the kids over there, which is highly commendable. But suffice to say, my dad sings his praises all the time, & some of the things he's told me that this guy did to help the cause at that time are seriously unbelievable.
Anyway, on Armarni's first visit to the UK, obviously he wanted to go & see a few matches & have a look around some landmarks & stuff. But one of the main things he wanted to do was to see snow for the first time in his life. They came up with the great idea of taking him to the skiing place at the trafford centre, but Armarni didn't want to ski, he just wanted to touch the stuff. Now my dad's mate had spent a fortune during the trip, & literally couldn't afford another bean, so on arriving at the centre, he carefully explained Armarni's situation to the staff & management there, & asked whether they could just let him go in for a couple of minutes to see & maybe touch the snow.
You've guessed it, no matter how much they pleaded for a little bit of kindness, the miserable fuckers refused his request & said he'd have to pay to ski otherwise he couldn't come in.
The lad is from a wartorn country & has enough about him to work hard every day to improve the lives of the kids there who've been through so much, yet some jumped up, small minded, cold hearted, middle management prick hasn't got the human kindness within them to let him harmlessly go & look at a bit of snow for the first time in his life.
I've never been to that skiing centre in Trafford as a result of this episode & I never intend to either. I would urge my fellow blues to boycott it too. Fucking Trafford - there's something extremely unpleasant about that place!!!
