Can we have a Bera shirt than Saido's?
[figure caption="Bullard swaps a shirt after Lescott jumped ship to Villa" title="Carling Shirt Amnesty: West Bromwich Albion" align="right" url="/sport/west-bromwich-albion-fc/2015/09/08/can-we-have-a-bera-shirt-than-saidos/carling-shirt-amnesty-west-bromwich-albion-3/" id="1027337"]Albion fans have been flocking to swap their Saido Berahino shirts after the striker's Twitter outburst in which he threatened to refuse to play for chairman Jeremy Peace again.
Supporters descended on the Red Lion, in West Bromwich, on Saturday where ex-footballer Jimmy Bullard handed out free shirts from Carling's campaign van. The campaign was launched earlier this summer to compensate fans for buying jerseys that have recently-sold players' names on and lets them trade in those shirts for new ones.
Pub owner Satnam Purewal said many of the shirts which were being traded in had Berahino's name on the back because of the striker's recent behaviour.
"The fans are annoyed with Berahino, they don't want to wear the tops because he has been so disloyal to us" he said. "It's been massively popular. The events been great, especially with Jimmy Bullard getting involved.
"It's getting people back into West Brom and it's getting people talking about West Brom.
"The brewery phoned us and said would you like to host the event. They wanted a high profile pub to host a big event because this has been going around the country and Carling is such a large company, so they picked us because our turnover of Carling is quite high and we're quite a busy pub and a lot of people know about us."
Albion fan Paul Lunn, aged 45, from Walsall, said: "I think the event is fantastic, it's really good. I've got rid of a Dorrans shirt for Rondon. I had an Anelka shirt but I gave that away to charity."
Fellow Baggies supporter Sidney Rock, 23, from Dudley, traded in his Billy Jones shirt. He added: "He was my best player. My hero was Neil Clement and it was the first name I had since Neil Clement left. It's a good thing what they are doing here." Former Premier League star turned reality TV King of the Jungle Bullard added: "I think it's an unbelievable deal, it's giving a little bit back to the fans.
"I've always had a good rapport with fans and it's nice to hand back. That's what we're doing. Seeing the smiles on their faces is brilliant."
