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Ex-footballer pledges to work out for 37 HOURS in a row in emotional fundraiser for former team-mate Joe Thompson who died aged 36 in April

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A former footballer will exercise for 37 hours without sleep to raise money for a late ex-team-mate's family.

Simon Ramsden will complete more than one-and-a-half days of back-to-back workout classes in Sunderland from June 27 to June 29 in memory of Joe Thompson.

Thompson, a former Manchester United academy starlet, died aged 36 in April after his third battle with cancer.

The duo played at Rochdale together for six years and Ramsden calls Thompson a 'special man'. Ramsden has shared a Just Giving page with the target of raising £3,000.