How would you like to have had your soccer club-supporting loyalties picked and set in stone for you before you were old enough to know what soccer was?
For many future fans — and this is often true in all sports — that's exactly what happens. Supporting the "family's team" is passed down from great-grandparent to grandchild, from parent to child. Generations of one family, all supporting the same club.
There's nothing unusual about that. However, the same can't be said of one infant born in the Greater Manchester part of England.
Thanks to his father Ian, seven-month-old Eddie Charters will be a sworn supporter of either Manchester United or Manchester City. Here's the kicker: which one of the English Premier League clubs he supports will be decided by the winner of an eBay auction.
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Eddie was born six weeks premature and spent the first month of his life fighting stomach issues and infant jaundice, so Ian put his son's future football club allegiance up for sale with all proceeds from the auction going to Bliss, a charity that supports premature and sick babies.
At the time of this posting, the eBay auction had reached £520.00 with 68 bids made. The auction is set to run until 5:44 am ET on Nov. 2, if you feel so inclined to get involved.
Ian also plans to run the London Marathon in 2015 and hopes that in doing so he can raise £2,500 for Bliss. To donate, visit his sponsorship page here.
We'd love to see the two clubs get involved, partake in a bidding war against one another and then do right by the child with a stadium visit, once he's old enough.
