DONEGAL STAR KARL Lacey received a welcome surprise today, in the form of a congratulatory letter from Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger.
Lacey, who is a big Arsenal fan, tweeted the letter, apparently signed by Wenger, acknowledging his achievement in helping Donegal win this year’s All-Ireland.
You can read the letter in question below.
Touch of class from Wenger and I’m a United fan.
Agreed.. A very nice gesture!! (United fan)
Tossers (Liverpool fan) joking
If its true I guess ha
Wow.. That’s a lovely gesture isn’t it!
I hope it’s Arsene for his sake or he has some pee taking mates!!
I’m going with the mates
Nice gesture and well deserved. Lacey was awesome this year and deserves all the plaudits he gets.
unreal (assuming it’s not fake!)
nice.
That is definitely a fake. If it was real it would have the Arsenal logo on it.
I stand corrected it is real.
Why not ask Liam Brady, he’s our man at Arsenal.
being a man utd supporter this has to b the nicest gesture I gave seen coming from a football club fair play to the gunners
Well I’m an Arsenal fan but about 10 years ago one of the young lads in work, a mad utd fan, had a stroke. I wrote off to Man Utd to see if they could send a club photo or something to try help him on his way to recovery. He received a letter from Sir Alex, an invitation to the club when he recovered and some memorabilia. Needless to say I took a completely different view of Sir Alex after that.
Here’s the original letter…with heading and logos.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A8vA2NYCMAA5PKg.jpg:large
I could do that up in 10mins…just sayin..
I think its fake based on that there is no letter head; no full title and it looks like a basic bic pen was used.
Arsene will try anything to get some silverware into the Emirates
jealously is terrible thing, fair play to him he deserves it..
@thejournal_ie c’mon lads. This is a Facebook wall post, not a news story.
C’mon people!! Complete wind up by his team mates, get real!!!
Bet ya his mammy sent it
few grammar mistakes in it so id presume its a fake! would be nice gesture if it was th
troll
You just ask arsenal for letters like these most of the clubs do them. A lot of people get them for their bride or groom for their wedding day and the best man/maid of honour reads them as part of their speech or they get read with the telegrams.
few grammar mistakes in it so id presume its a fake! would be nice gesture if it was the real thing
Look at his signature on google, it dose not look right.
You would assume that the letter would have a header or some sort of seal. Kudos to whoever thought of this prank.
alan, exactly what I thought, was it not a giveaway that the postmark was from Mayo?
Those letters are not that hard to get: http://imgur.com/Wlzie
It’s Ricky lake , arsene does not follow gaa why would he ? And he has enough on his plate with the gooners .