Walking Football Scotland have been encouraging their members to raise funds for their partner charity Prostate Cancer UK and the Midlothian players took part in an event in memory of their former player Peter Collins who sadly passed away earlier this year.
Peter was a hugely inspirational figure who works tirelessly for several charities in addition to playing walking football six time a week, line dancing and lifting weights at the gym in his ‘spare time’ when he is not working at race tracks as Scotland’s oldest bookmaker and was never without a smile on his face.
He was a ‘weel-kent face’ at Walking Football tournaments throughout the country where he always wore his treasured Hibernian goalkeeper’s top which was given to him by the club.
Peter played in goals for the victorious Midlothian side that won the Scottish Walking Football Festival, the sport’s equivalent of the Scottish Cup, at Glasgow Green keeping a clean sheet and the crowd amused with his patter during the final against Gretna.
He was Midlothian’s 2014 player of the year and the unofficial face of Scottish Walking Football.
That year, he helped promote walking football with a half time demonstration match and was later presented with the SFA Volunteer of the Year award at his beloved Easter Road.
A special ‘Gathering’ was held at Saltire Soccer Centre last night where teams competed for the Peter Collins Trophy created in his honour.
At the time of going to press, an impressive £490 has been raised of the £500 target.
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John graduated from Telford College in 2010 with an HNC in Practical Journalism and since then he worked for the North Edinburgh News, The Southern Reporter, the Irish News Review and The Edinburgh Reporter. In addition he has been published in the Edinburgh Evening News and the Hibernian FC Programme.
