Wolves players join race as Lydia launches charity collection
An eight-year-old girl got the chance to come face to face with some of her footballing heroes – and take them on in a race.
Wolves fan Lydia Jackson challenged some of the team to a race at the club's Compton Training Ground, where she also met Wolves manager Dean Saunders.
The Bushbury youngster's visit came ahead of a charity collection by Tettenhall Rotary Club which will take place during this Saturday's match against Huddersfield at the Molineux on Saturday.
It will be in aid of the wheelchair charity Power Pleas which the youngster, who suffers from cerebral palsy, has been chosen to represent.
The Penn Hall School pupil took on the players on her tricycle, which she received from the trust in 2010, and won.
Her mother, Michelle, aged 37, said: "I'm really pleased and proud they chose her. She's been telling people ever since Monday about it. She loved riding around the grounds and she was discussing giving the players a race on her bike. She's always a bit shy when she first meets people. She likes football though, so she wasn't shy with the players."
She said the bike had made a "significance difference" to the family who live in Legs Lane, including Lydia's 12-year-old brother Adam and father Stuart.
"It's given her more mobility. She can only get so far without it but with it we can all go to the park and the shops together."
Lydia, who also supports Liverpool FC, met a number of players including Wayne Hennessey, Carl Ikeme, Kaspars Gorkss and Jack Robinson during her visit.
