Newcastle United legend Alan Shearer has sent a personal message to a big-hearted Tyneside couple who saved an African football team.
Crispin Mason-Jones and his wife Dr Ellie Bond have raised tens of thousands of pounds to save a sports club in the remote community of Mfuwe in Zambia. They are helping to transform the lives of scores of children through the kindness of strangers back home on Tyneside - which has seen the club named the 'Mfuwe Mags'.
Shearer, 52, the Premier League all-time record scorer, sent a 'good luck' video message.
