Ballboys to fly the pink flag

PINK SUPPORT . . . Staff at the Latics shop get behind the team’s pink campaign.

ATHLETIC players won’t be the only ones wearing pink when John Sheridan’s side meets Leeds United on Monday, March 2.

A number of Hollinwood FC’s under-15s side for next season will be donning pink when they perform a bucket collection on the night.

The collection is in aid of the Victoria Breast Care Unit at Royal Oldham Hospital.

The special all-pink kit for the team (like the one modelled by captain Sean Gregan) — the first club to be given Football League permission to change their home kit for charity — has now arrived at Boundary Park ahead of Monday’s match, which will be shown live nationwide on Sky TV.

Latics hope that home fans will enter into the spirit of the evening by dressing up in pink as they bid to see off Leeds and raise money much-needed funds for the Link4Pink appeal.

Fans who do “go pink” on Monday have the chance to win a free match ticket to a subsequent Latics home game as crowd pictures will apear in Tuesday’s Chronicle and those circled will win a prize.