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Welsh fans at the Hawk and Buckle pub, in Llannefydd near Denbigh, also showed their support by having a whip-round to raise money for the Ukrainian people.

"A bunch of morons who have a whip-round for a banner do not speak for me or the town," he said.

"They were really positive, really helpful. We had a whip-round for them because they'd been so brilliant and then they cried."

On the day the BBC visited, a class whip-round had raised £10 for a couple whose electricity meter had run out.

Then there could be a whip-round among big backers to replace some of the shareholders who wish to sell at the proposed $420-a-share buy-out price.