Walking footballers charity event in memory of former player

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.

To donate click on the following link.