The fans who rescued a sporting institution

I’M AFRAID a Personality of the Year award won’t cover it - try something like a Multiple Personality instead.

The fans who rescued a sporting institution

My nomination is the Shamrock Rovers fan collective known as The 400 Club although, for the record, their numbers have swollen by now to 467. And if we were to name their award in honour of anyone, it would have to be the late Victor Kiam.

I doubt that he knew much about the old footie, but you'll recall that Victor was the face of Remington shavers back in the day the man who famously grinned at the camera and said, "I liked it so much, I bought the company."

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