\n Organisers say that, despite horrible weather conditions, a “fantastic crowd braved the elements” at Sunday\u2019s Cleanhire UK Ltd Christmas Markets and Legends Game.\n<\/p>\n
\n James Roby put his boots on for the good cause (Image: Bryan Folwer)\n<\/p>\n
\n Maurie Fa’savalu hits the ball up (Image: Bryan Fowler)\n<\/p>\n
\n A host of ex-Saints were among the Steve Prescott Foundation team (Image: Bryan Fowler)\n<\/p>\n
\n Arranged by The Steve Prescott Foundation (SPF), the event raised vital funds for the charity and for former Saints, Leigh and Warrington hooker Higham, 45, who is bravely tackling cancer.\n<\/p>\n
\n It was reported earlier in the year that Higham was facing stage 4 metastatic cancer\n<\/p>\n
\n Among those to turn out where ex-Saints captains Chris Joynt and James Roby, Louie McCarthy-Scarsbrook, Mike Bennett, Matty Smith, Maurie Fa\u2019asavalu and Ade Gardener.\n<\/p>\n
\n They were joined by 20 fundraisers, each earning the chance to take the field alongside some of “the greatest names to play the game”, the SPF added.\n<\/p>\n
\n On of those was Phil Whyte, who single-handedly raised a \u00a33,600 \u2014 and went on to score the first try of the game.\n<\/p>\n
\n Garswood Stags ARLFC provided a number of players and coach Paul Loughlin, the former Saints and Great Britain player.\n<\/p>\n
\n Micky Higham’s team of legends (Image: Bryan Fowler)\n<\/p>\n
\n Stef Ratchford and Paul Wood – ex-Warrington team-mates of Higham – took part (Image: Bryan Fowler)\n<\/p>\n
\n There was lots of support for Micky Higham who is battling cancer (Image: Bryan Fowler)\n<\/p>\n
\n Martin Blondel, of the Steve Prescott Foundation, said: “These events only happen thanks to the support of incredible partners and sponsors \u2014 and we are deeply grateful to each one – and all the stall holders.”\n<\/p>\n
\n James Roby (Image: Bryan Fopwler)\n<\/p>\n
\n The event included Christmas markets (Image: Bryan Fowler)\n<\/p>\n
\n Plenty braved the awful conditions (Image: Bryan Fowler)\n<\/p>\n
\n Funds still being finalised, however, it is anticipated that more than \u00a310,000 has been raised.\n<\/p>\n
\n Proceeds will be equally divided between The Steve Prescott Foundation and The Micky Higham Fund, which support the Rugby League Benevolent Fund, Rugby League Cares, and The Christie Charity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Organisers say that, despite horrible weather conditions, a “fantastic crowd braved the elements” at Sunday\u2019s Cleanhire UK Ltd…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-306105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}