Footballers turn out to remember teammates

The tragically short lives of two popular and talented sportsmen were commemorated with a charity football match.

Billed as the Kevin Sayer XI versus the Matthew Green XI, the memorial game at the Jubilee Hall playing field in London was a fitting tribute to the sports-mad youngsters.

Kevin (left), of Bergh Apton, died in 1995, aged 18, from the heart condition cardiomyopathy.

Matthew (right), from Hales, died in April from a rare type of cancer called teratoma, which affects the heart and lungs. He was 19.

More than 100 people turned out to watch the match organised by the friends of Kevin and Matthew, who both played for Loddon United FC.

A tombola, raffle and special programme helped raise cash for Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY), in memory of Kevin, and the Royal Marsden Hospital in Surrey, where Matthew received cancer treatment.

Annual charity football matches have been played in Kevin