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Date published: 25 January 2010


Chaddy FC fans wave the scarf worldwide

PLAYERS and coaches at Chadderton Park FC are going to new heights — and depths — to put their club on the map.

The globe-trotting footballers have taken wacky snaps of their club scarf on their holidays — sporting the yellow and green colours everywhere from 60ft below the surface of the Red Sea to thousands of feet over the Atlantic.

Marbella to Middleham, Blackpool to the Big Apple and Lapland to Land’s End have all featured in the annual competition launched last season.

Royal Navy crew on HMS Illustrious have also got into the spirit of things along with celebrities such as cricketer Darren Gough and ex-England footballers Lee Sharpe, Andrew Cole and Stan Collymore.

Last season’s winner Amy Brocklebank was chosen by Oldham Athletic chief executive Alan Hardy. She scooped Latics tickets for posing in snowy Andorra.

The runners-up were James Clayton, who snapped the scarf in the cockpit during a Virgin Atlantic flight, and Milo Garratt-Simpson, who was pictured on the beach in Marbella, complete with a giant club crest drawn in the the sand.

This season’s prize is a signed photograph of Manchester City players Gareth Barry and Roque Santa Cruz.

Chaddy Park secretary Steve Lynch said: “It’s just a bit of fun really to promote the scarf. The response has been great.”