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Town XI to Play Benefit Game at Newmarket - Ipswich Town News

A Town XI featuring ex-players will take part in a benefit match for the two non-league players who were seriously injured in a hit-and-run incident in Newmarket last Friday. The Blues XI will play Newmarket Town at their Cricket Field Road ground on Sunday 31st July (KO 3pm).

Shaun Whiter, who had just joined Newmarket Town, had both his legs amputated and remains seriously ill in Addenbrooke’s Hospital, while his friend Joey Abbs, who plays for Soham Town Rangers, suffered serious injuries to his right leg after they were hit by a car as they repaired a puncture at the roadside in Dullingham Road, Newmarket.

An appeal, which can be contributed to here, has been launched to raise to raise £120,000 to help Shaun walk down the aisle and marry his girlfriend Charlotte next summer.

"We have close connections with Newmarket Town, we are opening a new development centre there in September on their brand new pitch and we recruited Steven Cahill, one of our new scholars, from there two years ago,” Town’s academy head of recruitment Steve McGavin told the club site.

"Steven's dad coaches the reserve team, his grandad is the chairman and their first-team coach, Kevin Parsons, coaches in our development centre in Cambridge, so for us it seemed like the natural thing to try and help the two players and their families in any way we can.

"The game has only been arranged in the last 24 hours so Simon Milton and I will be on the phone to get a team together and hopefully we will get a good turnout at Newmarket to raise as much as we can for Shaun and Joey.”

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