Dedicated fans of English football club Plymouth Argyle can now literally die for their team after being given the opportunity to be buried in a coffin painted in the club’s green-and-white colours.
A local undertaker is offering followers of the second-tier Championship team a new service where they can choose their own Argyle-themed funeral.
This could involve being buried in a Argyle shirt, in an Argyle coffin, having their wake at the team’s Home Park ground, having green-and-white floral tributes in the shape of a football and even having their remains interred at the edge of the pitch.
Jack Walsh, the general manager of the Cooperative Funeral Services company told the Plymouth Evening Herald newspaper: “This is something that’s for real fans. An important thing is that even in the blogs I’ve picked up — and there have been postings from Perth, in Western Australia — everyone’s been taking the mickey and talking about die-hard fans, but it hasn’t been in a bad way.
“It’s all been taken with good fun and everyone has said that it shows what the club means to them.”
Argyle chief executive Michael Dunford said: “We’re delighted to be teaming up with the Cooperative Society to be able to offer this new service to our supporters.
“With the items the Argyle Superstore has on offer for new-born babies, it shows that it’s now really possible for people to show their support for the Pilgrims from the cradle to the grave.” — AFP