YOUNG footballers in Huddersfield are to pay their own special tribute to a friend who died tragically.
Players from Space and Dalton Dynamos will play out a memorial soccer match - in memory of young Dominic Rodgers.
Dominic, 10, died a year ago this month from carbon monoxide poisoning.
The deadly fumes seeped into the home in Spaines Road, Fartown, he shared with his mother Stacey and killed him as he slept.
Dominic was a keen footballer with the Space sports academy at Deighton and the soccer match is one of the tributes friends intend to pay.
The game, at the Deighton Arena at 10.30am on Saturday, will involve many of the boys with whom Dominic played.
Miss Rodgers said: "Dominic loved his time at Space, training and playing football.
"There was no Under 13 team this time so a lot of the boys moved to join Dalton Dynamos and their new coach came up with the idea of the soccer game.
"Milton Brown, at Space, has been very supportive and we hope it will be a great tribute to Dominic."
Mr Brown is a former Emley footballer. The players plan to hold a minute's silence before the game.
Miss Rodgers, who has campaigned nationally for more awareness of carbon monoxide since the tragedy, is also hoping for another memorial.
She hopes to open up to the public a special memorial garden that was created at Christ Church Woodhouse Junior and Infant School, Deighton, in memory of Dominic.
And a special poem that she has written in memory of her son is to be published for the first time to coincide with the first anniversary of his death.
