Nottingham Forest fans are being asked to lend their support to a cause close to defender Wes Morgan's heart.

Morgan has joined forces with an old school friend to arrange a charity game to raise funds for Glenfield Hospital in Leicester where his son, Rio, received life saving treatment last year.

Rio was diagnosed as suffering from pneumonia and doctors decided ECMO therapy, which acts like an artificial lung, was his best hope for recovery.

Glenfield specialises in that particular therapy and set Rio on the road to a complete recovery.

And now his grateful father and pal Liam Herring are staging a game on Sunday to raise much-needed funds.

Herring's son Leighton was delivered by caesarean after experts found he had a hole in his heart when he was still in the womb.

Staff at Glenfield worked around the clock to make sure he was stable enough to go to the operating theatre. Leighton is now a healthy one year old.

Morgan said: "It was a really distressing time but fortunately we had Glenfield on our doorstep. It's one of only four paediatric ECMO centres in the UK and the team there were superb.

"Although we can't thank them enough for what they did for Rio we know that funds are always tight and that's why Liam and I decided to the game."

Morgan and Herring's line-up will take on Unity FC in the game at Dunkirk F.C.'s playing fields, Clifton Bridge, Nottingham on Sunday (kick-off 3pm).