 The festive footballers swapped the pitch for the camera lens |
Football players hoping to raise more than �100,000 to help fund a new stadium have taken their kit off for a set of raunchy Christmas cards. The Brighton and Hove Albion stars posed semi-nude, with only festive decorations to preserve their modesty.
Proceeds from the Seagulls' cards are going to the Alive and Kicking Appeal, which is aiming to raise �2m.
They depict the players in various scenarios, all shot on location at Brighton Marina.
New stadium
The club's appeal was launched in September as part of its fight for a new stadium at Falmer.
The calendar is one of many fund-raising schemes to bolster the club's funds as it fights for a new stadium.
The Seagulls applied three years ago for planning permission to build a 22,000-seater stadium at Falmer, on the outskirts of Brighton, after their former home, the Goldstone Ground, closed in 1997
A public inquiry into the plans for a new stadium began in February 2003 and is due to re-open in February 2005.
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