THREE cheques were presented in Okehampton last Sunday, to mark the end of a sporting event that has taken place for the past ten years to remember the life of a team-mate and a friend. Since 1998, Okehampton Argyle Football Club and Okehampton Rugby Football Club have played against each other in the Neal Cousins Memorial Match, raising a huge sum of money for charity in the process. Last year's football match between the town's two sides was the final event of these unique memorial matches and completed the sequence of five games of each sport being played. Across the ten events, more than £46,000 has been raised for the Exeter Leukaemia Fund, the football club and the rugby club. On Sunday, May 4 a cheque was presented to each of these organisations at the Pretoria Vaults in Okehampton. Neal Cousins, who died of leukaemia in 1997, aged 24, had played both rugby and football for Okehampton. l Representatives from Exeter Leukaemia Fund, Okehampton Argyle FC and Okehampton RFC pictured right.
