Shocking: 13-year-old sues football club over shirt sale

Lots of fans have been there, buying your clubs replica shirt with the name and number of a player applied at the back and then witnessing the departure of the player from the club, and thus rendering the shirt as somehow 'useless'

Some decide to save it, some throw it aside, others just put it in the trash can; but we've found a young gentlemen who has solved the problem in a unique manner.

Thirteen year old Reading fan, Jon McGhee, paid £42 for a Reading shirt and had the name of his hero, Gylfi Sigurdsson, printed at the back of it.
A few months later, Sigurdsson was sold to the German side Hoffenheim.

Jon didn`t cast aside his shirt. The young lad took Reading to the County Court for reimbursement of his funds. Reading, surprisingly paid out!

The victorious party said: "For anybody else in the same position, this just shows it is worth pursuing it."

When asked about why they`d coughed up, a Reading spokesperson, Craig Mortimer, responded,

"We only settled because the hearing was right up in Middlesbrough. For the time and effort, it was far more logical to settle."

So now don't be surprised when you see disclaimers being introduced the next time you want your hero's name printed on your shirt!