FORMER Premiership stars Gianfranco Zola and Teddy Sheringham are among the big names lined up to play in a tribute match to remember Wycombe’s Mike Keen who died last year after a short illness.

The Kevin Keen All Star Team, managed by Mike’s son Kevin, will take on an all-time Wycombe Wanderers Legends Team at Adams Park on Thursday, April 15.

Kevin, now the first team coach at West Ham, said: “I can’t think of a better tribute to my dad.

“He was my hero.”

Mike Keen was born and bred in Wycombe and played for and managed Wycombe Wanderers.

But he was more famous as the captain of double winners Queens Park Rangers when they won the 1967 League Cup Final at Wembley as a third division club and the Division Three championship in the same year.

In his decade at Loftus Road, he also helped Rangers to promotion to the old First Division before being sold to Luton, where he played 144 times.

He then signed for Watford in 1972 and was appointed player/manager the following year. He also served Northampton.

But Wycombe was where his heart was and he lived in the area all his life.

He attended Hatters Lane School and also ran a sports shop in the town for 20 years.

He was also involved in local football, coaching thousands of youngsters and he was still playing Sunday Combination football well into his fifties.

Kevin said: “I can’t walk through Wycombe without someone coming up to me and telling me they were coached by my dad.

“It is a fantastic legacy to have and this match is just what he would have wanted.

“It is as close as we could have got to being a year to the day that he died.

“We could have done something at QPR or one of his other clubs but it had to be Wycombe. This was his home town.

“He never left it and he would’ve just wanted people to come along and enjoy watching the football and some seeing great players.”

Kevin, who became Wanderers youngest ever player when his dad gave him his debut at the age of 15, has assembled a formidable team for the match with Zola and Sheringham the headline acts along with former Chelsea stars Gus Poyett and Steve Clarke.

He has also persuaded the three Allen brothers, Clive, Paul and Martin, to don their boots while Watford manager Malky Mackay has also agreed to play.

Another current manager, Southampton’s ex-QPR legend Alan Pardew, has also pledged to play for the Kevin Keen side who are hoping to play in a replica of the all-white kit QPR wore at Wembley when they came from two goals down to beat West Brom 3-2 in the League Cup Final.

The Wanderers All Star team will be managed by Keith Scott who is now pulling up the trees as the gaffer at Windsor and Eton.

He is expected to call on the services of former Blues favourites such as Steve Brown and Keith Ryan.

Tickets for the match are now on sale at Wycombe Wanderers priced £10 for adults and just a pound for concessions.

All proceeds from the game will go to Cancer Research.

To buy tickets call 01494 441118 or visit www.wwfc.com