Riverside Glory!

A crowd of several hundred people gathered on the evening of Monday 18th May to watch the charity football match played at the Riverside Stadium. The match, which featured Gaizka Mendieta, once the world’s mot expensive footballer, and fellow Boro legend Craig Hignett raised thousands of pounds in aid of Teesside Hospice.

Both Gaizka Mendieta and Craig Hignett, scorer the very first goal at the Riverside Stadium in 1995, scored in a great game refereed by George Courtney, who officiated in both the 1986 and the 1990 World Cup tournaments. The game was organised by a fundraising team which included Dave Allan, Mike McGeary, Diane O’Connell and Fr Paul Farrer.

The auction of places to play in the teams raised over £12,000. Special thanks to the match sponsors Wells Integrated Cabling Systems.

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