A SCHOOL football team going for gold in the under 16s School National Cup have won support from a superstar fan.

Rick Witter, lead singer with the York band Shed Seven, heard that the lads from Tadcaster Grammar School had played the band's music in a mini bus on the way to a match and sent a good luck video message ahead of their game away today to Garforth in the fifth round of the competition.

PE teacher George Middleton, 25, whose mum and uncle went to school with Rick at Huntington School in York, said: "The boys had their own music on in the bus and I asked if they had anything decent they could play when one of them put on Going for Gold by Shed Seven.

"I couldn't believe that a 15-year-old had heard of them and texted Rick to let him know as we are family friends and he said that he'd send a good luck message. If they win the game this afternoon it'll be their best ever performance in this tournament. It was really good of Rick to do this."