QUEEN Guitarist Sponsors U.K. Junior Football Team

September 3, 2007

According to the U.K.'s Get Reading, a junior football team has landed a sponsorship deal with QUEEN guitarist Brian May.

Purley Jubilee Under-10s managed to pull a few strings and strike a chord with the axeman.

New team manager Peter Malandrone is May's guitar technician and decided to approach his boss when the costs involved in running a boys' football team became apparent and they needed a new kit.

He said: "My boy joined a football team but there were too many boys so they needed another team.

"They asked me and my friend if we would manage them and we said 'yes.'

"You then realize that you need to get sponsorship and so on, so I thought I'd ask Brian.

"He's not a football fan at all but he's absolutely keen on supporting our team."

The sponsorship deal has financed a complete set of kit for the players, who will run out with Brian May Guitars emblazoned across their chests.

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