Town left-back Tyrone Mings has cleared his mother’s debts as a gesture of thanks for “all the years of hard work” an exchange of messages on Instagram has revealed.

It’s not the first time the 22-year-old has showed his generous side, in March 2013 the former Chippenham Town man supplied match tickets to a “skint” fan and in July last year he offered to buy supporters new shirts after he changed his squad number.

Mings also recently spent time coaching Bury Town Rams U10s after an exchange with their manager John Byford on Twitter.

The Bath-born defender had a busy Tuesday evening, playing the first half of the U21s’ 5-1 victory over Charlton before travelling across town to Greshams, where he took part in the the club’s Legends of Darts night alongside the likes of Daryl Murphy, Noel Hunt, Teddy Bishop, ex-Blue Aaron Cresswell and darts stars Keith Deller and Kevin Painter.

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blueherts added 21:34 - Apr 8 Just let go of the negative numpties , in every solution they will find a problem - let them just dwell on their negativity .... Good luck to TY , happy for him - like we all should be
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Samassi100Abou added 22:48 - Apr 8 I'm sure every footballer that has come from a poor background has done this with a family member, but still put it social media to show everyone! What a hero Shame he didn't clear his mums debt before he brought his Audi R8
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MyBlueHeaven added 02:01 - Apr 9 April: Mings clears his mum's debt. June: Mings clears part of ITFC's debt.
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Michael11 added 09:37 - Apr 9 He is a top bloke but also starting to think he's self promoting quite a lot. I'm sure most footballers help their families out, they just don't post it all over the internet. Good on him though, he's a top man.
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Marshalls_Mullet added 20:10 - Apr 9 Nice one, but why on earth put it on Instagram?! To be fair, a lot of pro footballers help their family out. I think most people would do the same. Maybe he'd loaned her a tenner and wrote it off ;-)
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