My Special Day

Johner

This was just on Sky Sports News, a young irish lad got to meet John Terry and the Chelsea team. Worth the watch!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjFUfIxfQvc

Football-mad Oran Tully met idol John Terry and the rest of the Chelsea team during a festive edition of My Special Day.

monkey9

Very good. Love those programmes.

Was he chosen for this because he's ginger?

Johner

Oran, who suffers from a complicated and rare bowel problem, cannot eat solid foods and is fed overnight intravenously.

Also, he got Roman to talk!

monkey9

Johner wrote: »

Oran, who suffers from a complicated and rare bowel problem, cannot eat solid foods and is fed overnight intravenously.

Also, he got Roman to talk!

Literally the first time I ever heard Abramovich talk.

Corvo

Good stuff.

Hope Terry didn't rob anything on him

Paully D

That is absolutely fantastic from Chelsea and especially John Terry. He may be a lot of things but that truly was brilliant from him.

gustafo

great stuff,

Fair play to the young lad and fair play to chelsea (coming from a united man)

Aenaes

Corvo wrote: »

Good stuff.

Hope Terry didn't rob anything on him

Maybe Terry got to meet the Ma aswell.

Kerrydude1981

Great programme.

Fair play to all involved.

monkey9

John Terry went out of his way for that, more than a lot of players would do. And he genuinely seemed to enjoy his time with Oran as opposed to doing it out of obligation.

Turtyturd

monkey9 wrote: »

John Terry went out of his way for that, more than a lot of players would do. And he genuinely seemed to enjoy his time with Oran as opposed to doing it out of obligation.

Doesn't he normally pick up back handers for this kind of stuff...and tours of Stamford bridge?

I fully expect him to be found selling his teammates jerseys outside in the car park after a game, Earl Hebner style.

fullstop

That's incredible. Fair play to Terry, he went over and above for that kid.

thebaz

Chelsea and Terry in particular, get a lot of stick , but that is class - most people are good and bad , and Terry seams a top bloke here - wish Oran all the best

Aidric

Very nice. Big effort put in by the club and Terry in particular to make it special for the kid.

murpho999

Want to have a heart of stone not to enjoy that.

Young Oran's excitement was a joy to watch.

Fair play to Sky, Chelsea and John Terry.

Also just heard Abrahmovic's voice for the first time, he seemed to be in awful rush though!

Gavin "shels"

Just in the middle of watching it now, love watching these football dream videos! Shows what the game is meant to be about!

Panthro

Well done John Terry, he really made that boys day. JT seemed to really enjoy showing him around and having a laugh with him too.
Really impressive.

bad2dabone

Well done John terry.

Utopia Parkway

murpho999 wrote: »

Also just heard Abrahomovic's voice for the first time, he seemed to be in awful rush though!

Just said "Champions League" and legged it.:D

mirwillbeback

greendom wrote: »

And Terry is his hero. Poor lad has got nothing going for him at all.

Very funny. Honestly, brilliant. Well done.

This was a great programme, whatever you say about these footballers it's a very privileged position to be able to make a kids dream come through, and when they take the time to do it's a class act.

David Luiz was a gentleman, incredibly genuine to the boy.

Wish Oran all the best, a truly brave and inspiring young man.

The_Kew_Tour

Give Terry credit where it is due.

This was all about that little fella day. Im sure he it made his xmas. Thats most important thing

Bertser

Well done to everyone involved, absolutely brilliant.

greendom

mirwillbeback wrote: »

Very funny. Honestly, brilliant. Well done.

This was a great programme, whatever you say about these footballers it's a very privileged position to be able to make a kids dream come through, and when they take the time to do it's a class act.

David Luiz was a gentleman, incredibly genuine to the boy.

Wish Oran all the best, a truly brave and inspiring young man.

yes ok fair enough and now that I've watched it I can see that even though there is no doubt that it was an excellent pr excercise for Terry and the club, the lad had the day of his life that he'll remember forever

P_1

The young lad goes to the school my dad works in. I remember him saying something about it when it was being filmed. It's hard to believe that he's actually 13/14 years old given how small he is. He's always in great form from what my dad says which is incredible given the hand he was dealt.

Fair play to all involved in both Sky and Chelsea.

DazMarz

Just watched this now having recorded it. Wow. I'm a Chelsea fan, so I would have extreme bias here, but you have to hand it to the club. They pulled out all the stops to make a young lad's dream come true.

John Terry (love him, like him, loathe him) is excellent with Oran. He is also a brilliant person with youth players and is truly a club captain. But he was immense for the time he spent with Oran. Taking the time to show him everything, talking with him, playing football with him and just generally making it a wonderful, special day for the lad.

All of the players truly made an effort here to make sure it was something he'd never forget. But David Luiz sticks out as being especially sweet and brilliant. He seems to do that a lot and seems to be great at meeting fans. José was also brilliant, just walking up as cool as ever and greeting Oran warmly thereafter.

It really was wonderful and for someone who's had to fight and struggle so often, for small rays of light like this in life, it will mean so much more.

Fair play to everyone at Chelsea Football Club (John Terry and David Luiz probably deserving of special mention), Sky Sports and anyone else who had a part in this. It was truly wonderful.

Fowler87

Fantastic gesture. Fair play to the young lad.

FlawedGenius

Brought a tear to my eye when the kid got all excited sitting at the laptop, and the camera panned to the Dad.
John Terry was great with him and Ive more respect for Chelsea FC after that.

Ken.

I love when stars do stuff like this.

Here's one Ajax done last week

Vid is in dutch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve-xHEXlutQ

Dutch footballing giants AFC Ajax recently made the dreams of one very ill young boy come true as they “signed” him for the club and helped him realise his dreams of playing alongside his footballing heroes.
Eight-year old Jay-Jay Willems suffers from IBS abdominal ache, a condition that affects the young Ajax fan every day of his life. However, in a heartwarming move by the Opkikker foundation, (who’s goal it is to “contribute to the mental energy of a chronically ill child by organising a day of relaxation and joy with the entire family”), Frank De Boer and his boys allowed Jay-Jay to visit the Ajax training ground, sign for the club, be unveiled at an official press conference and even allowed him to take part in the first team warm-up ahead of the recent NEC Breda match.

http://www.joe.ie/football/football-news/afc-ajax-sign-eight-year-old-to-help-make-fans-christmas-dreams-come-true/

brianregan09

As an Arsenal fan ...I don't like Chelsea at all...especially Terry, But i loved every minute of that fair ****ing play to them

dobman88

Yeah fair play to Terry and Chelsea. Delighted for the young lad too. But is it really thread worthy??

Didn't Jessica Ennis and Wayne Rooney and the England team do a couple of "My Special Day" programmes a few weeks ago. Didn't see them mentioned and thought they deserved a mention too. As well as what Ajax did for the young lad posted above.

Hank Scorpio

Think alot of this stuff goes on behind the scenes but nice to see a Irish lad go over. JT was top class too. Hope he pulls through

Richard Hillman

dobman88 wrote: »

Yeah fair play to Terry and Chelsea. Delighted for the young lad too. But is it really thread worthy??

Didn't Jessica Ennis and Wayne Rooney and the England team do a couple of "My Special Day" programmes a few weeks ago. Didn't see them mentioned and thought they deserved a mention too. As well as what Ajax did for the young lad posted above.

Oh my God.

dobman88

Richard Hillman wrote: »

Oh my God.

Yes?

Jesus Wept

Jose was painfully awkward.
lol nadal.

El Horseboxo

dobman88 wrote: »

Yeah fair play to Terry and Chelsea. Delighted for the young lad too. But is it really thread worthy??

Didn't Jessica Ennis and Wayne Rooney and the England team do a couple of "My Special Day" programmes a few weeks ago. Didn't see them mentioned and thought they deserved a mention too. As well as what Ajax did for the young lad posted above.

With a bit of initiative you could have had a thread for them other ones too where you could of mentioned the fook out of them.

dobman88

El Horseboxo wrote: »

With a bit of initiative you could have had a thread for them other ones too where you could of mentioned the fook out of them.

Not thread worthy imo. Just worth a mention. They have been mentioned, carry on

razorblunt

Quality, fair play to all involved, great touch from Cahill and the boots in there too.