Coventry City auction match-worn boots to support #RallyForHallie

20-month-old Hallie Reeve has a rare type of blood cancer.

Author: Ben CartwrightPublished 1st Aug 2023

Coventry City have announced they're auctioning boots signed by players to help support a fundraiser for a young girl with cancer.

Boots signed by Matty Godden, Gustavo Hamer and Ben Sheaf have been donated to the #RallyForHallie campaign.

Hallie Reeve, who is 20-months-old, has a rare type of cancer called Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukaemia.

The very rare type of blood cancer develops slowly and occurs in young children. Jamie says, despite several treatments for cancer, little Hallie has failed to respond to it.

We spoke to Hallie's dad, Jamie, in July and he told us the family need to raise over £1 million to take Hallie to America for specialist treatment.

Jamie was told about CAR-T Cell therapy by nurses at Birmingham Children's Hospital, which involves the extraction and manipulation of cancerous cells in a laboratory.

The cells are manipulated in different ways in efforts to directly target and kill cancer - a process Jamie described as 'very complicated.'

The Therapy is said to be 92% successful in the eradication of cancerous cells.

In order to foot the bill, Hallie's family set up a GoFundMe page to try and raise the £1,000,000 needed to fund Hallie's journey to the States.

The boots are from May's play-off final at Wembley, where Coventry lost to Luton and missed out on securing promotion to the Premier League.

The family's fundraising page has raised over £700,000 and has been backed by over 37,000 individual donators.

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