Donny Dog is back! The saucy football mascot gets her job back after raunchy photo shoot that 'disgraced club'
The mascot of Doncaster Rovers Football Club who posed in a racy photo-shoot will be reinstated as Doncaster Rovers mascot Donny Dog, according to club chairman John Ryan.
The Championship side sacked Tracy Chandler after she 'disgraced the team' by posing in her lingerie in a newspaper, even though the money from the provocative photo-shoot went to charity.
The mother-of-three said she received an email from the club telling her that her services were no longer required.
Tracy Chandler, 40, was sacked after she 'disgraced' the club in a photoshoot in her lingerie
But Ryan said on Thursday that, although the club did not approve of being linked with the Sunday tabloid in question, it was 'common sense' to give the hairdresser her job back.
He said on talkSPORT: 'Donny Dog is very popular with youngsters and we didn't like the association with Sport and children seeing that paper.
'I think some people thought it was inappropriate and I think it was in a way, but I've seen the pictures and I think she looks very nice.
'I would only laugh about it. I'm hoping that common sense will prevail.'
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Ryan then added: 'She will get her job back. As far as we're concerned she's done a great job for us as Donny Dog, but I think she should just have to let us know what she was doing. But she's raised the money for charity.'
Mrs Chandler dressed in the full Donny Dog oufit, left, and posing for the photoshoot that got her the sack
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,' Mrs Chandler told BBC Radio Five Live when she initially heard that she had been dropped. 'I've not stopped crying all morning.
'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.'
Doncaster Rovers mascot Tracy Chandler gets job back after raunchy photo shoot