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Bum’s the word for Aston Villa fan Samantha Eldridge – after a pre-match pledge came back to bite her on the backside.

Desperate to mark striker Gabriel Agbonlahor’s 300th Premier League appearance for the club at Sunderland on Saturday, the mum tweeted: “If Gabby scores today I’ll get his name tattooed on my a**e #avfc.”

Inevitably, the former England forward bagged not one but two goals as Villa cruised to a 4-0 away win.

As the goals went in, 33-year-old shop assistant Samantha, from Tamworth, tweeted: “Oh sweet Jesus.

“Gabby goal 2-0 Villa & the tattoo is on #AVFC.”

She later added: “I’d have offered my a**e for tattooing first game of the season if I knew it would have this effect.

“Team is on fire. Come on Villa!!!!”

Realising she needed to honour her cheeky promise, Samantha later tweeted that the tattoo had been booked for Friday.

She wrote: “A Gabby tattoo on my a**e is minor.

“I don’t talk *****, booked in Friday. Unveiling at Swansea game.”

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Children’s charity Acorns, which has strong links with Villa, is set to benefit from Samantha’s plan.

A JustGiving fundraising page had already collected more than £100 in pledges on Sunday.

Samantha told the Mail she was planning to have Gabby 11, the player's shirt number, inked on next to a claret heart.

And she said she even had the backing of her seven-year-old son AJ, who goes to matches with her.

She said: "I already have some tattoos but just roses and stuff, nothing football-related.

"This is the first and last time I will do it.”

Samantha went on: "“I don’t really regret it.

"At first I thought: ‘What have I done?’

"But I have set up a JustGiving page now for Acorns.

"Some good has come out of the joke.

“I think I was still a bit giddy after beating West Bromwich Albion twice in a week.

"A lot of people were tweeting that it was Gabby’s 300th appearance and that he was going to score.

"I was saying: ‘No he won’t.'

"I said if he did I would have his name tattooed on my bum and it came back to bite me!

“At first when he scored I just celebrated it and then my phone started going and I thought: ‘Oh dear’.

"But it’s all good fun isn’t it?”

“A lot of people thought: 'No she won’t do it’. People tweet stuff like that all the time.”

The JustGiving page, called Samantha’s Agbonlahor Tattoo On Her Bum, contained the description: “Getting Gabby tattooed on my butt cheek for Acorns Children’s Hospice Trust because he scores when he wants.”

It went on: “I am a lifelong Aston Villa supporter.

“This morning I tweeted that if our legendary striker Gabriel Agbonlahor scored against Sunderland on his 300th appearance for our great club, I would have his name tattooed on my a**e.

“He scored two goals, Twitter went mental and the tattoo is booked in for Friday.

“Decided to raise some money for Acorns in the process.”

Samatha’s Twitter pledge has echoes of a similar promise made by Birmingham City fan Serena Preston.

She said she would watch the first game of this season in her underwear if Blues stayed in the Championship last term.

The St Andrew’s side duly survived but club officials spared her blushes by banning the stunt.

Serena, from Erdington, told the Mail last June: “I regret ever sending that tweet now.

“It was meant to be a harmless comment – I never thought it would happen.

“But then I had loads of people saying I should do it.

“It just exploded.

“My family are all Bluenoses so they thought it was absolutely hilarious.”