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Sunday 27th April saw a mixture of football stars from past and present descend on Grays Athletic Football Club for the Ernie Cooksey Benefit Match, approximately 1500 spectators saw the likes of Paul Merson, Ray Parlour, Leroy Lita, Clive Allen, Justin Edinburgh, Ian & Bob Dowie, Aaron McLean, Scott Fitzgerald and others play against Grays Athletic.

Grays Athletic won the match through a last minute penalty taken by Ernie Cooksey

The generosity of the fans was fantastic with over £16,000 being raised from gate money, programmes, raffles and auctions, money is still coming into the club for Ernie, Blue Square have donated a percentage of the profits from bets placed on the last games of the Blue Square Premier season which amounted to £500

It was great to see the football world rallying around to assist Ernie in his fight against cancer.

Grays Athletic FC would like to thank everyone who so generously gave up their time and money for such a worthy cause.

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