LONDON (AFP) - Chelsea's Kai Havertz is to auction off the specially-designed boots he will wear in Sunday's (Aug 22) Premier League match against Arsenal in a bid to raise funds for those affected by flooding in his native Germany.

Some 189 people lost their lives in severe floods that pummelled western Germany in mid-July, with houses and their occupants swept away in the Ahr valley, in the state of Rhineland Palatinate, the worst-affected area.