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Chesterfield FC's marketing chief departs following fake raffle winner ‘farce’

on Jul 20, 2016 | 0 comments

By Tony Connelly

Chesterfield Football Club’s marketing and commercial head has left the club under a cloud of controversy after an internal investigation found he had rigged a raffle for a place at the club’s pre-season training camp in Hungary.

The League One club confirmed that their head of commercial and marketing, Kevin Fitzgerald, has departed after a supporter discovered that the winner of the raffle did not exist.

The competition, which only sold four of the £20 raffle tickets, was won by Surrey-based ‘James Higgins’, who was apparently too ill to attend the training camp in Hungary.

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Source: The Drum