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Hot-shot Ashley is bagging the goals

Young hot-shot Ashley Harrison has been make life a misery for defenders this season.

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When 11-year-old Harrison hit the first goal in West Bromwich Albion Colts' 9-1 friendly win over Allscott at Telford last weekend it meant he was close to 60 for the season spread over three different teams.

His latest strike and performance earned him the Gold Award, voted for by his team-mates, and he has now scored 10 for the young Baggies, 43 for Brownhills Community Colts in 16 Walsall Junior Youth League games, and a few more for Cooper and Jordan Church of England Junior School, Aldridge, where he is chairman of the school council.

Affectionately known to his family as the 'Pocket Rocket', he just loves scoring goals, and creating them, and the highest number he has notched in one game is six, while he has rattled up four goals in four games and two hat-tricks.

No surprise that the prolific goalscorer's ambition is to be a professional footballer one day. And he doesn't have to look too far for inspiration as his grandad, Paul, lives a few doors away from Albion legend Tony 'Bomber' Brown in Walsall.

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