The board, on its own part, refused to take the gifts back.
That's remarkably sweet on the part of both parties. Especially when you consider that footballers and their clubs are not whom you think of when gentlemanly behaviour is concerned. Perhaps it just goes to show how people just tend to be nice when they are already in a position of plenty - as both said parties no doubt were (and no doubt, are).
Maybe that's why Canadians are uniformly sweet and nice. Canada is, after all, a country with a huge abundance of resources and very few people - resulting in there being a lot to go around.
