The day began with a bus trip to a pre organised trip to Lax Unlimited in the beautiful Garden City, home of Stephen Jahelka. The lads loved it and pretty much bought the shop stock! Thanks to all the staff and especially Justin Baker. We had a picture outside and Billy managed to snap a chair in half at the Bistro next door! UNIT!
We then departed for a trip to New York and where dropped off at the impressive Grand Central Station! It's a better version of the one in Stockport :)
We then headed to fifth avenue guided by Ravi wise guy Sitlani, checking out the adidas store and headed to Nike Town! After 30 mins of shopping buying all types of limited addition shoes we met on the ground floor. We had. A picture with a member of staff as we where all in our Knights Nike gear and the boys began to surround me with a weird look on their faces! What's up now I thought! TJ began to make a speech and George Dunn appeared out of the group holding a Nike bag, imreally didn't process what was happening at first and to my amazement they had all put in to buy me a gift - I have a love for Jordan's as does Ravi and they had bought me some Jordan 4 retro's that I had already checked out upstairs, some grey Jordan shorts and a white Jordan t-shirt. On a side note I never accept gifts from players I do it for the love and to see their development and to make friends with the players! This was a gift I couldn't refuse and loved, it choked me up and the players realised how pleased I was, I raised the shoe in the air like a trophy and thanked them all. The member of staff told me I had to put them on before we left. It was one of the most touching and nice things anyone has ever done for me. Jordan's where out of my price zone when I was young and I guess I have a love for them because of this reason! Thank you all for doing this it was above and beyond anything I expected and a really nice touch.
The players where hungry again so we decided to trek the wrong way at first for Chick fil a, myself and Ben had been taking great pleasure in winding TJ up about his love for the fast food restaurant as he loves it, so at least it would rid him of his gravings and also feed the hungry team.
Trump Tower
Cake! Times Square
More trainer shopping and a trip to pandora to buy the wags a gift was completed and we decided to head back to Grand Central. After Jordon tried to reanact Home Alone Two alone n New York and me acting as international. Rescue we met JD's aunt who gave me the password to realease him, he's a great kid and was sad to see him go the players said there goodbyes and we got back on the bus to head back to The zuniondale Marriott.
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