BUDDING young footballers from Dovercourt Vipers swapped playing for watching to cheer on Colchester United.

Players from all their teams were at the Weston Homes Community Stadium to see the U’s beat Barnsley, on Easter Monday.

As Vipers are now a Charter Standard club, they were given free tickets for all their young players.

All their teams attended and this picture is of their oldest age group, the under-13s.

Colchester fought back from one-down at half-time to win 3-1.