Hibernian player donates testimonial money to charity in memory of teenage club-mate

Football needs more of these sorts of gestures. Lewis Stevenson has made nearly 400 appearances for Hibs over the course of a 13-year career and, as per tradition, the club recently honoured him with a testimonial match.

They're occasions which have been slightly outmoded by the increasing wealth in the game, but Scotland's top tier isn't the gilded playground of the Premier League. For a player who turned 30 in January, the money raised would no doubt have been useful to Stevenson in his future retirement.

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Seb Stafford-Bloor is a football writer at Tifo Football and member of the Football Writers' Association. He was formerly a regularly columnist for the FourFourTwo website, covering all aspects of the game, including tactical analysis, reaction pieces, longer-term trends and critiquing the increasingly shady business of football's financial side and authorities' decision-making.