Former England footballer Matthew Le Tissier was the star attraction at a gala dinner to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Shropshire Junior Football League.

Le Tissier hot-footed it up to Shrewsbury from the Sky Sports studios to attend the event at the Greenhous Meadow stadium to celebrate one of the region’s biggest grass-roots football success stories.

He entertained the 160-strong audience in an on-stage conversation with Shropshire Star assistant editor Carl Jones, signed dozens of autographs, posed for pictures, and helped league officials to hand out awards.

Below are a selection of images from SJFL40 awards gala evening:

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The programme for the evening can be downloaded here.

You can download the Shropshire Star article here and also view the article online too:

www.shropshirestar.com/news/2014/03/18/matt-le-tissier-at-shropshire-junior-football-awards

There was also a ‘silent auction’ on the night for three signed football shirts:

1) Signed goalkeeper shirt by Joe Hart.
2) Signed Man City shirt when they won the premier league.
3) Signed Shrewsbury Town FC shirt.

All bids to SJFL – please use contact page.

Please note all photographs are courtesy of Kidz in Sport and copies can be obtained from them at www.kidzinsport.co.uk

The event was produced, designed and organised by Yarrington www.yarrington.co.uk