Coronavirus in Edinburgh: Hibs cup final medal and shirt raise £5k for NHS charity

Jordon with his shirt and medal from the 2013 final

FORMER Hibs star Jordon Forster has auctioned off his cup final medal and shirt to raise £5,000 for the NHS charity during the coronavirus outbreak.

Touched by the sacrifices made by frontline medics, the defender initially thought of completing a sponsored fitness challenge.

But after taking down the 2013 Scottish Cup Final runners-up medal and shirt from his wall to fix a crack, Jordon opted to put both up for sale online.

“I thought I might raise £500 and it’d be amazing if I raised that but then somebody called and offered £5,000 which was a bit surreal,” said Jordon, 26, now at Dundee.

“It’s one of the proudest things I’ve done - I’m humbled by everybody’s generosity.

“I had to turn down offers but at the end of the day it’s for charity and the biggest is the best one.

“Luckily enough, me and my family are healthy, no one in my immediate family has suffered or anything like that.

“But you watch the news and people are dying everyday and you speak to NHS workers and I think their work goes unnoticed most of the time.

“They work ridiculously hard and their pay is not what they should be getting, realistically.

“It’s a football game, at the end of the day. People are dying everyday and people’s lives are more important than a piece of metal and a shirt.”