LET'S hear it for Mike Garrity, Ian Surgeoner, Marie-Louise Scott, Shane Winship, Dan Winship and Trevor Milton.

These six York City sponsors care so much about the club that they have stumped up £1,200 for hotel rooms to ensure the Minstermen get a good night's kip ahead of their crucial away match against Southport this weekend.

Contrast that with the tight-wad attitude of millionaire Premiership footballers, hundreds of whom have reportedly snubbed a request to sacrifice just a day's wages each to give a boost to hard-up British nurses.

More than 17,000 fans have found it easier than their heroes have to part with a day's pay for the Mayday for Nurses appeal launched by West Ham skipper Nigel Reo-Coker.

We know which face of football we prefer.