SOUTHAMPTON Football Club’s most successful manager, Lawrie McMenemy, has been pencilled in to officially present the Isle of Wight Society for the Blind’s first boom box next month.
The County Press-backed appeal is closing after meeting the £12,000 target to provide each blind and partially sighted subscriber to the charity’s Isle of Wight Talking Newspaper the latest hi-tech playback equipment, a boom box.
The recorded newspaper is the most efficient way for subscribers to get their Island news each week.
Southampton’s legendary manager, "Supermac" McMenemy, who earned the club’s only FA Cup victory in 1976, will hand over the first boom box to a lucky subscriber at Newport’s Riverside Centre, on Saturday, October 16. So far, the appeal has raised £10,200 and Tesco stores will hand over a cheque for £1,000 to the charity at the ceremony.
The Riverside Centre will be hosting An Evening With Lawrie McMenemy in aid of the Boom Box Appeal on Friday, October 15. The popular Saints figurehead will talk about his career with the club in better times.
"We should make our target figure. The appeal has been a great success thanks to the support and generosity of Islanders and the County Press," said Ian Bast, the charity’s Boom Box Appeal co-ordinator.
Reporter: jonm@iwcpmail.co.uk