SAFC fan donates over 500 badges to Fans' Museum on behalf of his deceased father

Sunderland Echo

Stuart Arthur donates over 500 badges to Fans' Museum founder Michael Ganley from his father Keith's collection.

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00:00 (footsteps)

00:02 - Uh-huh.

00:05 Nothing to do with Mickey Mouse being on the front, eh?

00:09 (laughing)

00:11 - Again, that's just very visual, that, with it all in.

00:16 - Yeah. - Yeah.

00:17 - Well, Kevin, should you even stop asking

00:20 just how big a fan your dad was of Sunderland?

00:23 - Absolutely.

00:23 - And a bit about his badge collection, then?

00:25 - Absolutely massive.

00:26 He never missed a game.

00:27 He was always on the news sites

00:29 to find out what was going on with Sunderland.

00:31 He basically lived, breathed, and died Sunderland

00:34 throughout his life, sort of thing.

00:36 If we lost, he'd be in a sulk for a couple of days.

00:39 If we won, he'd be happy for the entire week.

00:42 I've never personally met somebody

00:44 as big of a fan as my dad.

00:46 - And tell me about his badge collection.

00:47 How many badges has he collected?

00:49 - We reckon it's about over 1,000 now,

00:51 so I've brought about 500 here to the museum to donate,

00:55 but I've got about 500 at home as well,

00:57 so well over 1,000.

00:59 - I believe there's some Sunderland badges in there,

01:01 also Olympic ones as well.

01:02 - So on the London Olympics,

01:04 my dad got the entire London Olympics badge collection,

01:08 and I've got some of that at home,

01:10 brought some of it for the museum.

01:11 He's got some Sunderland badges,

01:13 ones of the new crests, ones of black hats.

01:17 I think he might have the old crest in there as well.

01:20 Lots of sport badges, lots of badges from all over the world.

01:23 - Obviously, he moved away from Sunderland.

01:24 How would he know now?

01:25 How would he feel to know that his badge collection

01:28 is gonna go on display at the Fans Museum?

01:29 - He'd be ecstatic.

01:31 He'd be over the moon that people would be looking

01:34 at something that he's collected, he's spent time on,

01:36 and get an enjoyment out of that,

01:38 'cause that's what my dad was all about.

01:40 It'd be the kind of thing,

01:41 what would be a lifelong ambition of his.

01:44 I'm just sorry that it took him donating

01:46 and for it to happen.

01:48 - Michael, obviously, is a museum owner.

01:49 I mean, how do you feel knowing that

01:51 this man's father is gonna be remembered in the museum?

01:55 - Well, like a lot of others,

01:57 we have got a lot of pieces in the museum

01:59 that represent our fans who have passed away,

02:01 and we have done now from day one.

02:03 So, for Keith's collection, I'm pretty proud, honoured,

02:07 and obviously, more to the fact of seeing him,

02:10 he's actually here today.

02:11 It's gonna be fun just going through them all

02:13 and having a little chuckle, but no,

02:15 we are extremely proud.

02:18 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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