For the primary time in 20 years, as a result of present COVID-19 restrictions, gamers had been unable to attend native youngsters’s hospitals to ship presents in particular person this Christmas. As a substitute gamers despatched presents and digital messages of assist to sufferers and workers at Royal Manchester Youngsters’s Hospital, The Christie and Francis Home Youngsters’s Hospice.
Thanking workers for his or her continued exhausting work and sending optimistic messages to assist elevate sufferers’ spirits, each groups despatched an array of United-themed presents together with shirts, hats and scarves to unfold some festive pleasure.
Membership captain Harry Maguire expressed the staff’s dedication to supporting the younger sufferers despite the fact that it couldn’t be completed face-to-face. He mentioned: “The staff and I are actually disenchanted we won’t go to the hospitals in particular person this 12 months.
“Final 12 months, I attended The Christie and noticed how essential it was to sufferers and workers to obtain the assist and presents from Manchester United. It has been a long-standing custom at our membership to go to the youngsters’s hospitals and I simply hope after such a troublesome 12 months, our digital messages and presents will put some smiles again on faces.
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