Tracy Chandler, 40, was sacked after she
'disgraced' the club in a photoshoot in her lingerie
Championship side Doncaster Rovers have
sacked their mascot after she 'disgraced the team' by posing in her
lingerie in a newspaper photo-shoot.
Mother-of-three
Tracy Chandler said she received an email from the club telling her
that her services were no longer required.
The hairdresser
has said she is going to fight to get her job as Donny Dog back
despite being pictured in provocative underwear.
Over the last
three years she has appeared as a mascot at the club's Keepmoat
Stadium and believes she is the only female in the top four
divisions of English football to have such a job.
She appeared in
a Sunday tabloid but she admitted that she did not tell the club
about the shoot.
The 40-year-old
stressed that it was 'tastefully done' and all the proceeds were
donated to the NSPCC.
'I'm absolutely
devastated,' Chandler told BBC Radio Five Live. 'I've
not stopped crying all morning.
Puppy love: Chandler dressed in the full Donny Dog
outfit, left, and posing for the photoshoot that got her
axed
'It just said that they didn't need my
services any more and that I'd disgraced the
club.'
She said that
she was disgusted by what has happened to her.
'I've raised a
lot of money for charity. I've brought Donny Dog out of hiding,'
she added. 'I'm the one who pushed him into the
charities.'
A spokesman for
Doncaster said the club would not be commenting on the
matter.
