A MIDDLEWICH legend and family man was remembered by the community as crowds gathered to watch a football game in his honour.


Tim Shaw, from Middlewich, was loved by everybody in the town and played for and managed several pub teams in the town including the Big Lock, the Golden Lion, and the Boar’s Head.


After Tim died in March this year of a Coronary heart disease at the age of 49, his family organised a football match at Sandbach United FC to raise funds for the British Heart Foundation.


Carmen Shaw, Tim’s wife who first met him when she was just 17, was overwhelmed with the turnout on the day and the response she has received from the community since Tim passed away.


Carmen said: “Everybody in the community loved him, he pinned them all together in a way.


“People at his worked used to call him the manufacturer of fun because he just had such a good sense of humour and he was always smiling.


“I keep getting comments from people, who only ever spoke to Tim over the phone at work, and they tell me how proud of us he was and how much he loved the kids and that is so nice to hear.


“Tim spent all of his life involved in football in Cheshire so it was just a perfect way to remember him.”


The football game was between a team of Tim’s former team-mates with his daughter Zoe in goal, and Sandbach United veterans.


The day also involved a children’s football match, raffles, tombola’s, and a Manchester United memorabilia auction, as Tim was an avid fan of the club.


All proceeds from the day went to the British Heart Foundation who conduct research and help people living with heart and circulatory conditions.


To donate for the cause in memory of Tim, visit www.justgiving.com/remember/107324/Tim-Shaw.