Shahbaz Taseer receives signed-shirt from Manchester United

Shahbaz Taseer, son of a slain Punjab governor who was freed in March after over four years in militant captivity, has received a signed jersey from Manchester United after revealing that listening to their matches kept him “sane” during his five years in captivity.
On Saturday, he tweeted a picture of himself wearing the famous red shirt.
“OMG @ManUtd just sent me this!!!,” he wrote. “I´m in shock! Thank you boys!” he added, expressing his gratitude to the squad members who signed the shirt.

He went on to add the club did not send him the jersey out of the blue; in fact ,it was his sister-in-law who told them about him.
After his release, Shahbaz described how he survived four-and-a-half years in captivity, revealing how listening to soccer games was his only contact with the outside world.
“One of my guards, like myself, was a Manchester United fan, and every other week he would sneak a radio into my cell and we would listen to soccer games,” he wrote in The New York Times.
“For me, it was a window to the outside world. Getting soccer news kept me sane. ‘You must surely be the only United fan in this position,’ I would tell myself. They are playing and winning for you,” he added.