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Southampton's Fraser Forster transfer earns tiny non-league club £100K

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After months of scratching around for the appropriate paperwork, goalkeeper Fraser Forster's £10-million move from Celtic to Southampton in August 2014 has earned a little Northumberland non-league side £100,000.

The required documentation, eventually found in a coach's attic, earned Stocksfield FC a share of the transfer fee after proving Forster represented the club between the sticks between the ages of 8 and 15.

Secretary and coach Phil Murray told BBC Sport: "It's unbelievable, we're so excited thinking how a small club in rural Northumberland has managed to get hold of this - we're absolutely delighted."

He added, "We expected a little bit of money - we might have got £1,000, which is the most we have ever managed to fundraise."

Stocksfield's Twitter claims to have "11 teams from mini soccer to seniors," and Murray vows to spend the money on improved facilities and hire more coaches to help support those squads.

Following Forster's initial move to Newcastle in 2005 and the three England caps he's won since, Murray has seen growth in the number of kids wanting to pull on the gloves.

"It's amazing how many of the kids want to be goalkeepers now - everyone looks up to him, everybody talks about him, whenever people say they are from Stocksfield they talk about Fraser - it's absolutely fantastic."

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