THE family of a Norfolk football fanatic has donated a “sizeable four-figure sum” to the appeal launched to keep King’s Lynn Town‘s season alive.
Lifelong Norwich City fan Barrie Greaves died in December 2019 at the age of 83.
In his will, he left the Championship side £100 to buy a round of drinks for Canaries players, but money has now also been donated to keep the neighbouring Linnets playing in the National League.
Chairman Stephen Cleeve launched the last-ditch bid to save the club’s season earlier this week after warning that yesterday’s game against Weymouth could be the club’s last as it could not afford to continue without the revenue from paying supporters being allowed into The Walks.
The Linnets revealed that a ‘sizeable four-figure donation’ had been made to the appeal by the Greaves family this week, taking the total to £11,000.
Barrie’s daughter Sarah Greaves told the club’s website: “My father was first and foremost a Norwich City supporter, but he was also a football fan, and particularly a Norfolk football fan.
“King’s Lynn have had many links with Norwich over the years, and in their manager Ian Culverhouse, they have a player who I watched in my childhood, sitting with my father at Carrow Road.
“I know that if he had have seen this situation he would have wanted to do something to try and help. I don’t know if my father ever visited The Walks but I know that he went to games at Great Yarmouth when Norwich were away, and followed most of the results of the Norfolk football clubs. He loved the county.”
Mr Cleeve said: “It is a huge act of generosity from someone we have never met – although we will resolve that in the very near future. It is such a wonderfully fitting way to help remember her father.”
