Everton striker Steven Naismith has his own clubs bought tickets home – to donate unemployed fans. He spent a long time in Glasgow lived and learned about the plight of people without employment, says the 27-year-old.

Fast cars, big houses, expensive clothes: professional footballers give their money like for luxury, so the cliché goes, at least. But the fact that some of them can otherwise prove Everton striker Steven Naismith. The 27-year-old has bought a large contingent of his home tickets Premier League clubs in order to give unemployed people from Liverpool.

“I’m from Ayrshire in the West of Scotland and had a large part of my life spent in Glasgow – a city that has at times suffered from high unemployment,” said Naismith. Liverpool have a similar story, many people were looking for a job and could not afford tickets for football games. “I thought this would be a small gesture, with which I can help them to enjoy a day out there,” the player of the younger of the two Liverpool clubs says.

He has the cards given to a Job Centre in Liverpool, every week is to select people who have slipped through no fault in unemployment. About 20 percent of the population of the city on the west coast of the British Isles are out of work, in some districts there are sometimes up to 80 percent.

It’s not the first time that Naismith less well-off people helps, among other things, it supports homeless shelters in Liverpool and Glasgow. He has also initiated a project life, with which he wounded soldiers would allow a way back into the everyday employment.