Did he go public ? Did the school do it ? One of the parents ? No need to be churlish IMO - great gesture by him.
Exactly. How many other City players, or Brighton players for that matter, have paid for their old whole school to attend? I hate this view of 'It makes no difference to him, he has loads of money'. It would make no difference to me to give the homeless man under the bridge a tenner today, but I'm not going to.