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No keeping Lee from game he loves

7:25am Thursday 12th April 2007

Photograph of the Author By Adrian Kajumba »

TEENAGE Saints fan Lee Steege has been wheelchair bound since birth - but it hasn't kept him away from football.

The 17-year-old cerebral palsy sufferer didn't think twice about joining a Hampshire FA refereeing course.

And, having graduated from the nine-week course at the Eastpoint Centre last month he is now "itching" to take charge of his first game.

"I think I would be able to do kids small-sided matches and five a side but my aim is to one day do a full 11 a-side game though I know it will be pretty hard getting up and down a full size pitch," he says.

For full story see today's Daily Echo.


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