NEWCASTLE United captain Alan Shearer has pledged to take part in a fundraising event - despite playing a crucial match hours before.
Shearer will make a 200-mile dash to co-host a charity dinner in aid of Hartlepool and District Hospice.
The event, on Sunday, at the Tall Trees hotel, in Yarm, near Stockton, coincides with Newcastle's Premiership game at Aston Villa.
However, the former England striker has promised to board a flight straight after the match so he can make the event on time.
Paul "Goffy" Gough, Century FM DJ and event organiser, said: "Alan could easily have said 'Sorry mate, but I have other commitments', but he didn't. Now he will have to jump out of his football strip and rush up here.
"He is catching a plane from Birmingham to Newcastle, where his driver will be on stand-by to pick him up so he can make our event. That is just amazing."
The DJ organised the event following the death last year of his sister, Angela O'Hara, 54, from cancer.
He wanted to pay tribute to her life while also raising money for the hospice, which cared for the mother-of-two in the months before she died.
It is hoped the event will raise £30,000.
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