Aaron Collins and his Bristol Rovers teammates will do everything they can this season to make Nick Anderton proud after the defender revealed his cancer diagnosis.
Anderton, 26, will undergo surgery to remove part of his femur after osteosarcoma, a form of bone cancer was discovered after initially thinking he had an injury. Manager Joey Barton said the operation could leave Anderton unable to walk for a year.
The news, naturally, has devastated his teammates including Collins, who dedicated his goal in Saturday's defeat to Forest Green Rovers to the former Carlisle United and Accrington Stanley defender by sprinting to the touchline and raising his number 16 shirt aloft to the crowd at the Mem.
