Memorial Match For Garforth Star

Garforth Town’s promotion team of 2007 will take on Kumar’s Boys in a Charity match at Garforth’s Genix Stadium on Wednesday 3rd August (7.45pm KO).

The former Garforth Town player, Renwich ‘Kumar’ Parkinson, now 23, was shot dead earlier this month whilst in Jamaica.
Whilst remembering Kumar the match is also to raise funds for his baby son, Rakeem.

Simon Clifford said: “Renwich was one of the best young people I have ever worked with. He was the last person something like this should have happened to.”

The match will feature former Garforth players managed by Vernol Blair and Steve Nichol, including, Greg Kelly, Andy Rowan, Chris Kamara, Dan Sheriffe, Nick Jagger, Craig Harding and Jason st Juste amongst others from that time.

They will play against a Simon Clifford side that will feature many of Kumar’s friends and former team mates who he trained with whilst at Brazilian Soccer Schools Leeds.

Casting their memory back many Town fans will remember the impact Kumar has on the promotion winning side of 2004/05 season, particularly his performance against Carlton Town FC, the first game on 2005 and a 3-1 victory. A key match of that season Kumar led the line of ten-man Garforth following an early sending off and it is for this reason organisers hope many Garforth fans will support the match as well as catching up with some of the club’s older players.

Kumar was playing for Jamaican side Village United at the time of his death.