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'Thanks for cleaning my boots...have a £30,000 Mercedes': Soccer star's amazing gift to boot boy (Daily Mail)

After a season shadowing a star footballer, a lucky boot boy might find himself the recipient of some souvenir kit. James McPike got a Mercedes. The football trainee, who had been assigned to Birmingham City midfielder Olivier Kapo, was stunned when he was thrown the keys of the £30,000 car and told to keep it. The French international drove the disbelieving 20-year-old to his home, handed him ... (read more)