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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
Sport
Matthew Lindsay

The bereaved fathers football team and a fight for Scotland-wide child loss support

Held In Our Hearts FC, the football team made up entirely of bereaved fathers, will play a charity fundraising match during Baby Loss Awareness Week in October (Image: Martin Leiper)

Being thumped 11-1 in your very first match would cause most new football teams to consider sacking the manager, to contemplate drafting in a new goalkeeper, to question if it is worth continuing even.

For the Held In Our Hearts FC players who were thrashed by that whopping margin by Denny Warriors at Little Kerse in Polmont just outside Falkirk last weekend the outcome of the friendly encounter was inconsequential.

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