Kids to Kick: Staffordshire schoolboy forming a team of players with Cerebral Palsy

Sep 08, 2015, 10:31 AM

(Broadcast on BBC Radio Stoke, September 2015)

A seven-year-old boy who loves playing football is nothing unusual.

But one Staffordshire schoolboy is hoping to form a football team with a difference this month -- recruiting only players who have cerebral palsy.

Jude Liversage from Swynnerton has the condition and recently underwent spinal surgery to improve his movement.

He and his dad Tony hope to create a football club for other children with the condition - and as Emma Thomas reports they're getting support from former Stoke player Mama Sidibe...