England vs Serbia LIVE: Gareth Southgate’s Euro 2024 line-up ‘leaked’ as fans scrap in Germany
by Andy Lines and Paul Byrne
An England fan who survived 14 rounds of chemotherapy and an 11 hour backbone operation has made it right here to Gelsenkirchen to assist Gareth Southgate’s workforce.
Alex Zonneveld, 25, acquired a ticket for the match after well-wishers heard of his gruelling battle with bone most cancers and acquired him a ticket for tonight’s sport with Serbia.
Last 12 months he was identified with a uncommon type of bone most cancers and thought he had no probability of creating it.
But he stated the considered attending to Germany was the one factor that saved him going.
Alex, from Borehamwood, Herts, stated: “I simply decided that if I’m fortunate sufficient to make it by all this – and alive, then the very first thing I’m going to do is get myself out to the Euros, and this dream saved me going by the darkest elements of all of it.
“My remedy meant I couldn’t work so I couldn’t earn and I simply didn’t have the cash for a ticket, so I simply appealed on-line if anybody had a spare ticket after which because of the generosity of the British public individuals managed to chip in and kind me out with a ticket.”
“ I can’t believe I’ve made it and I’m so thankful to everyone who has helped me fulfill this dream. And now it’s all eyes on England winning against Serbia”
