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http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/22/sport/football/sunderland-fans-ticket-refund/

 

CNN) -- Have English Premier League club Sunderland's players set a dangerous precedent for under-performing sports teams?

 

After losing 8-0 at Southampton on Saturday, Sunderland's squad has offered to refund the cost of match tickets to their 2,500 traveling supporters who made the 1,026 kilometer round trip from the north east of England to the south coast.

 

"We win and lose as a team, players, staff and fans," Sunderland captain John O'Shea told the club's website..

 

"However we wanted to acknowledge and thank the supporters who traveled such a long way to give us their backing and despite everything, stayed with us until the final whistle,"

 

It's a gesture that could cost the Sunderland squad as much as $100,000, with any unclaimed money to be donated to Sunderland-based charity Grace House, which provides care to children who have life-shortening conditions for which there is no known cure.

 

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