Die for your club
Afp, London
Dedicated fans of English football club Plymouth Argyle can now literally die for their team after being given the opportunity to be buried in a coffin painted in the club's green and white colours. A local undertaker is offering followers of the second-tier Championship team a new service where they can choose their own Argyle-themed funeral. This could involve being buried in a Argyle shirt, in an Argyle coffin, having their wake at the team's Home Park ground, having green and white floral tributes in the shape of a football and even having their remains interred at the edge of the pitch. Jack Walsh, the general manager of the Co-operative Funeral Services company told The Plymouth Evening Herald newspaper: "This is something that's for real fans. An important thing is that even in the blogs I've picked up - and there have been postings from Perth, in Western Australia - everyone's been taking the mickey and talking about die-hard fans, but it hasn't been in a bad way. "It's all been taken with good fun and everyone has said that it shows what the club means to them."
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