Gary Lineker donates £3,000 to help save female footballer's career with the BBC presenter's pledge taking Doncaster Rovers Belles Sophie Scargill's total to the £5,000 she needs for knee ligament surgery Gary Lineker has donated £3,000 to help cover Sophie Scargill's knee surgery The Doncaster Belles captain injured her knee in training last month She would have faced a two-year wait on NHS which would've put career at risk The club offered to loan her £5,000 but she set-up a crowdfunding instead
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Gary Lineker has donated £3,000 to help save the career of Doncaster Rovers Belles captain Sophie Scargill.
Scargill needed to raise £5,000 to have surgery on ruptured knee ligaments or face a two-year wait on the NHS - which doctors said would increase the risk of not playing again.
The 26-year-old set up a JustGiving page and had raised £2,000 before Lineker made up the rest of the total needed.
Gary Lineker has pledged a huge sum to help cover Sophie Scargill's knee surgery
Scargill injured her knee in training last month and faced waiting two years on the NHS list
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