It’s back to the fuchsia!
Reporter: DAWN MARSDEN: Pictures: DARREN ROBINSON
Date published: 07 August 2009
Rugby club thinks pink for charity
RUGBY fans were in the pink as the Roughyeds’ biggest crowd of the season —1,419 — enjoyed a charity bonanza.
Supporters donned their finest pink clobber — from dusky pink sweatshirts to fuchsia deelyboppers — and paid a minimum of £1 to get out of the ground following the club’s televised Co-operative Championship One clash with the London Skolars.
All money raised was split between the Link 4 Pink breast care appeal and Dr Kershaw’s Hospice.
Fans came from far and wide to show their support and were greeted with a thriller of a match which Oldham eventually won 28-22 thanks to two tries in the final five minutes, having trailed behind all the way through.
The Roughyeds are now second in the Co-operative Championship One table and
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