Michael Clarke Will Make These Children Paaaaay!

It’s always nice to hear that Australia’s model bedding cricketing heroes are doing something for the kids – like WeetBix commercials, or cricketing coaching sessions at the local orphanage.

Or, if you’re Michael Clarke, charging schoolkids $50 to have a photo taken alongside him. That’s the Aussie sporting spirit, Pup!

Except, wait a second, it looks like it’s the school’s bright idea. Even better!

A Brisbane Catholic school has some of its flock in a flap after announcing a plan to charge kids $50 to have their photo taken with cricketing star Michael Clarke and his baggy green cap at their fete.

Clarke and fiancee Lara Bingle will attend the St Columba’s Primary School fete on August 2 in an appearance agreed upon through his manager Chris White, whose children attend the school.

And while pictures of the future Australian skipper without his sacred green cap will be free, a snap of Clarke and the child with the cap on is being sold for $50 – with all money going towards the construction of an outdoor, undercover sporting shelter for the school in Brisbane’s northern suburb of Wilston.

Well, that’s kind of disappointing. It would’ve been better if the story had gone along the lines of Clarke charging the children $100 each just to talk to him, while he and Bingle teased them to the point of tears, and then said something like, “F–k this pie stand, let’s go to the Hog’s Breath Cafe” before turning over some fete stalls and riding out of the school on a Harley.

A girl can dream, right?