Harry Kane, Son Heung-min, Bale, Ronaldo and more help Tottenham kit man for special cause

09.06.2022 - 21:45 / msn.com

Tottenham players have come and gone over the years but Dukes has been a constant at the north London club. Fans might see him dashing about on a match day or even have watched him laughing with the players at Hotspur Way in Amazon's All or Nothing documentary series last year. The club's affable head of kit and equipment is one of the most popular figures at Spurs and that's why so many have flocked to help him with the special auction that begins at Graham Budd Auctions on June 11.

The huge fundraising effort comes after the 54-year-old received a phone call two years ago that nobody ever wants to take. "Two years ago I lost my dad in a cycling accident. He was a fit, fit guy.

He always did the London to Brighton and London to Cambridge rides. He said to my mum, just on a normal day, 'I'm going to pop up to the farm to pick up some bits, I'll be home in half an hour'. He never came home.

"He was found with three fractures in his skull. It was a tough one. It was so unexpected.

I was here [at the training ground] on the day, Jose [Mourinho] was manager. I got the call, air ambulance were on site," Dukes told football. london.

"As soon as I heard those words I knew it was serious. He got flown to the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel to the trauma unit. He was put on a life support machine.

He went in on the Monday and they turned the life support machine off on the Saturday. "In the aftermath of 73-year-old Charlie's death, as the loss hit him hard, Dukes looked for a way to focus his thoughts and he found it in trying to give something back to the Essex & Herts Air Ambulance, who treated his father at the scene and in transit, and need £750,000 a month to remain operational. "I didn't realise the air ambulance was a