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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Patrick Edrich

'You don't turn your back on your family': A day with Liverpool Homeless Football Club

A football thuds repeatedly against the wooden boards surrounding an indoor pitch nestled inside a unit on a North Wales industrial estate.

Eight men - all wearing blue sports kits, four of them also in red bibs, chase each other around the artificial pitch. Several more stand behind the metal wire to the side shouting instructions and encouragement while two other teams, one in yellow and another in orange, lounge behind on benches or on the grass outside enjoying the warm afternoon.

The quality of football is surprisingly good. The players are playing street football - four aside where a goalkeeper stays inside their penalty box and outfield players defend with two and attack with three.

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