Back in January 2014, before Juan Mata officially signed for United, I decided to write a letter to him at Carrington training ground (address in system) in hope he'd sign and I'd be one of the first to be sent a club card.
After 2 months, in March, I decided I'd try again as I didn't receive anything, so sent another letter, another SASE and hoped. But again nothing.
At the end of August, I then wrote to him for a third time as I was writing to players for the new season and this morning, to my surprise, I found 3 hand signed club cards from Juan Mata in 3 seperate envelopes all with the dates in the bottom right corner to show me when I sent off to him.
Very happy with this - means I can have one, send one to my Dad and find another mate to give the third to!
I DO NOT trade my signed pictures/cards for Email addresses/private addresses. Occasionally willing to trade for physical items.
Successes: Luke Shaw, Juan Mata x3, Jose Mourinho x2, Sir Bobby Charlton, Wayne Rooney x2, Adnan Januzaj x8, Robin Van Persie x3, Ryan Giggs x4, Shinji Kagawa, Phil Jones x3, Chris Smalling, Nick Powell, David Moyes x2, Tom Cleverley, Javier Hernandez, Nemanja Vidic x2, Michael Carrick, Antonio Valencia x2, Marouane Fellaini x2, Darren Fletcher
Waiting on: Angel Di Maria, Ander Herrera, Louis Van Gaal, Robin Van Persie, Marcos Rojo, Daley Blind, Wayne Rooney, James Wilson, Adnan Januzaj, Radamel Falcao.