Strictly Come Dancing professional Kevin Clifton has donated more than £1000 in a bid to save his favourite football club, Scunthorpe United
TV dancer Kevin Clifton has a new mission – to Strictly help save his favourite football club.
The dancer donated more than £1,000 towards a fundraiser launched by fans of Scunthorpe United – who have plunged from the Championship to non-league and face a battle for survival.
Staff went unpaid for the month of September. The total today reached more than £50,000 – understood to be enough to cover the missing wages.
Clifton, 40, has been a fan of the Lincolnshire club, nicknamed The Iron, since he was a boy. His granddad was formerly a director and he was a mascot for the first match at the club’s Glanford Park stadium in 1988. He wrote on the fundraiser: “From Grimsby but been Iron since the day i was born.”