Two football clubs come together to remember Matthew Grimstone and Jacob Schilt, who died in 2015.
Football clubs across Sussex have come together every year since the Shoreham air disaster to show that two players who died in the crash are never forgotten.
Matthew Grimstone and Jacob Schilt, both 23, were killed in the same car on their way to play for Worthing United FC when a Hawker Hunter jet crashed onto the A27 at Shoreham on 22 August 2015.
To mark 10 years since they died, a day of friendly fixtures was held in their memory at the Sussex FA headquarters in Lancing.
Eleven men lost their lives and another 13 people were injured in the Shoreham crash.
Paul Grimstone, Matthew's older brother, said: "Matt loved football. Everything he did was football whether it was working for Brighton & Hove Albion as a groundsman, playing, and he was referee at one point."
He added: "Being close to the game allows us to be close to him as well. He would have loved this occasion."
Both Matthew and Jacob were passionate about the game and had started playing football at primary school.
Every year since they died, memorial matches have been held in their honour.
Year 6 pupils at their former Brighton primary schools, Balfour and Patcham, play a cup match every summer, and the men's families organise an annual fundraising day of memorial games.
Lawrence Edwards, one of Matthew and Jacob's close friends and teammates at Worthing United FC, was just behind them in the queue of traffic on the A27 that day, after he was delayed by 30 seconds attempting to get fuel for his truck.
Lawrence, who is now first team manager at Shoreham FC, said: "I remember seeing the plane starting its loop and going up and watching it out of my windscreen.
"I've never really sat down and thought about the effects of how close I was to it but the effects on me are irrelevant. It was more about the effects of what had happened to them."
Worthing United had lost two of their own and the impact on the club was devastating.
Supported by Brighton & Hove Albion, the team returned to the pitch 15 days after the disaster, at home to East Preston, with a crowd 10 times bigger than normal.
Mark Sanderson, the club's chairman, said 1,008 supporters turned up to that match on 6 September 2015.
He said: "It was a hell of a day, a very emotional day. We knew we'd done the right thing."
The memorial matches have attracted large crowds every year.
Ten years on, numbers were up again to remember Matt and Jacob and to raise money for their families' chosen charity, the Brighton & Hove Albion Foundation.
Jacob's mother Caroline Schilt said: "It does feel surreal, but at the same time it's very, very comforting to think that all these people are supporting, and that Jacob and Matt's memories are being kept alive by this community."
Shirt numbers 1 and 11 have been permanently retired at Worthing United FC, but the players who wore them will be forever remembered on the pitch.
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