More chances to win football from Arsenal team to help Jack Brown

Thursday, 12 February 2009

By Mary McConnell

THE final date of the Jack Brown Football Auction has been extended to allow more people to send in their bids.
Readers now have until Monday March 2 to send in their cheques for the football, which has been signed by the entire Arsenal team. All of the money raised will go to help Jack Brown, seven, from High Barnet, who is fighting a rare form of cancer, neuroblastoma, which can only be treated in America.
The football star Emmanuel Eboue, 25, an Arsenal midfielder, donated the signed football for the auction after a reader of The Press, Ron Burvill, told him Jack’s story.
Emmanuel, who is from Ivory Coast, was so touched by Jack’s plight that he agreed to donate a football signed by the whole Arsenal team.
The pioneering treatment that Jack needs is only available in the US, and the Jack Brown Appeal has already raised hundreds of thousandsof pounds to fund his therapy.
Ron, 76, a retired electrician of Oakmere Close, Potters Bar, said he hoped that readers would continue to send in their cheques to help the Brown family.
He added: “People need to send in their bids as soon as they can to help Jack. I had been thinking about what I could do to help Jack ever since I read his story in The Press.
“I met Emmanuel through a friend and he said he was happy to help Jack out if he could so he got this football for me.”
Jack is in the US with mum Yvonne receiving chemotherapy and they are waiting to learn whether Jack can be included in some new trials at the New York hospital that is treating him. She said: “We are so grateful for Ron’s kindness and the efforts he has made to help finance Jack’s treatment.”

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