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Binned, stolen, or somewhere under the<br />
bed:<br />
When footballers' medals go missing<br />
After putting all that effort into winning them, it's surprising how many<br />
players allow their awards to go astray – some never to be seen again<br />
7 August ~ In July, Liverpool’s Rhian Brewster was filmed wearing his<br />
Champions League winner’s medal while getting his hair cut at the barbers.<br />
Some applauded how he was sharing the medal with the public. Others<br />
thought he ought to focus on getting first-team football. Given how many<br />
footballers have mislaid their medals, he’d do well to simply take care of it.<br />
Winning a record number of 13 top-flight English titles may explain Ryan<br />
Giggs’s attitude to the whereabouts of his silverware. While having a clearout,<br />
he found a handful of Premier League winner gongs stashed away in<br />
the back of a drawer. He’d forgotten they were there. “I am proud of what<br />
I’ve achieved,” said Giggs, “but looking at a medal or talking about what<br />
I’ve won doesn’t do anything for me.”<br />
Arsène Wenger feels the same way. He claims to have not kept a single<br />
medal, preferring to give them to club staff. Although Tony Adams has a<br />
different view on his former manager, saying Wenger was so angry about<br />
losing the 2001 FA Cup final to Liverpool, that he tossed his runners-up<br />
medal in the bin.<br />
Most are keener to keep hold of what they see as their part of history. Celtic<br />
reserve goalkeeper John Fallon was an unused substitute in the 1967<br />
European Cup final. He still got a winner’s medal – just not for 20 long.
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