Charity tournament to be held in tribute to inspirational boys' football coach

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Dad-of-two Tom Heffernan's Holytown Colts side will get back together for the day.

A football tournament is being held in tribute to a much-loved coach of a boys’ football club in Lanarkshire who died suddenly earlier this year.

Get all the news from your area – as well as features, entertainment, sport and the latest on Lanarkshire’s recovery from the coronavirus pandemic – straight to your fingertips, 24/7. Lesley said: “Tom’s Holytown Colts team has folded because no one was able to take it on, which is a shame because he put his heart and soul into it for a long, long time.

Lesley described the boys at the football team as Tom’s "other family", and their eldest son had played for the Colts team before signing up as a pro-youth at Stirling Albion.A four-team football tournament will now take place in Tom’s memory at Ravenscraig Regional Sports Facility.

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