'Super creative' – Football School Guardian Young Sportswriters of the Year revealed
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Rebecca Close and Eleanor Walsh see off some tremendous competition to emerge as our winners in the second year
A report of England’s dramatic 2019 Ashes victory told from the perspective of the batsman’s glasses has been crowned a winner of the 2020 Football School/Guardian Young Sportswriter of the Year award.
Rebecca Close, aged nine, won the category for children from seven to nine years old with her story about the 76-run partnership between Ben Stokes and Jack Leach at the Headingley Test against Australia from the point of view of Leach’s famous specs. Continue reading...