FORMER England football captain Bryan Robson popped into a pub in his hometown to collect a charity cheque for £10,000.
The ex-Manchester United player who now manages West Bromwich Albion met customers in The Black Horse in Front Street Chester-le-Street, on Tuesday.
They have raised £10,000 for Leukaemia Research with a series of events such a coast-to-coast bike ride, raffles, chest-waxing and tending a market stall.
Mr Robson lived in South Pelaw and went to Lord Lawson of Beamish School, in nearby Birtley.
He agreed to help because his family knows landlady and organiser Irene Boyers. She said: "Most celebrities charge you for this sort of thing but he is doing it free of charge. The customers have been great while have been fundraising."
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