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Sport / Football team pay touching tribute to Iain Goodlad

Iain's dad Leonard Goodlad and Mind Your Head service manager Gill Gover were given the opportunity to see members of the Shetland team wearing the new training tops. From left: John Allan, Leonard Goodlad, James Aitken, Neil Fenwick, Lorne McNiven, Gill Gover and James Farmer. Photo: Kevin Jones

SHETLAND’S men’s football team will pay tribute to former youth Shetland player Iain Goodlad at this summer’s Island Games in Orkney.

The team will proudly display training tops bearing Iain’s initials alongside the logo of Shetland’s mental health charity Mind Your Head as a gesture of solidarity and awareness.

Iain represented Shetland at junior level and played for clubs including Lerwick Spurs, Ness United and LK Galaxy during an extremely successful senior career.

The Shetland men’s football team train in the new training shirts. Photo: Kevin Jones

Before Shetland’s training session this week Iain’s dad Leonard Goodlad and Mind Your Head service manager Gill Gover were given the opportunity to see the team train wearing the new tops.

The blues will don the shirts before taking on opponents such as Jersey and Gozo next month.

Meanwhile Shetland have called up two players to the men’s football squad to replace long-term injury absentees.

Spurs’ Connor Grant and Scalloway’s Hayden Jamieson have had to pull out of the squad after suffering serious injuries.

Josh Carroll, of Spurs, and Whalsay’s Euan Irvine will replace them.

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