Fan wins legal challenge over 'outdated shirt'

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A young football fan successfully received a refund for a replica shirt after he sued the football club he supports when they sold his favourite player.

According to a report in the Daily Mirror, Jon McGhee, aged just 13, took the legal action after Reading sold his favourite player, Gylfi Sigurdsson (pictured), to German side Hoffenheim for an estimated £7 million last August.

Just a couple of months previously, McGhee had spent £42 - money he was given for his birthday - on a Reading shirt with Sigurdsson's name on the back.

When Sigurdsson was promptly sold, his father James visited the club shop in a bid to get a refund for the shirt, but Reading refused.

The pair subsequently took the matter to their local county court in Middlesbrough.

Reading eventually settled the matter out of court, paying £72 to cover a full refund and legal costs.

James McGhee said: "For anybody else in the same position, this just shows it is well worth pursuing."

However, Reading spokesperson Craig Mortimer, explained why the club agreed to settle the case.

"We only settled because the hearing was right up in Middlesbrough," Mortimer said.

"For the time and effort, it was far more logical to settle."

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