Fans raise a glass to 10 years' drinking

Sheffield Collegiate fans Don Root, aged 72, Roy Wheeler, 64, Bill Croft, 61, and Andrew Jackson, 58, bring their collection of six Tetley's beer glasses to every match they watch together - a tradition well known throughout the Yorkshire League.

The glasses were discovered at a Castleford versus Sheffield Collegiate cricket match in 1997 after the friends turned up to the game only to find the bar closed. So the quartet ventured across the road to the local off licence to find themselves some ale.

Spotting a bargain, the group opted for Tetley's as for every four cans they received a free engraved glass, created in celebration of the 1995 West Indies cricket tour of England.

In total they ended up with half a dozen glasses, which have since become known as the Castleford Six.

And ever since the friends have used the glasses to drink their pints, transporting them to matches in a document case.

The tenth anniversary of the Castleford match was marked at a game held at Abbeydale Park. Bill said: "The glasses are now some of our prize possessions and we take then wherever we go."

The quartet all live in the Totley and Bradway areas and are well known among the Yorkshire League cricketers.

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