Many children and young people with special needs have difficulty mastering simple physical skills such as hopping, balancing, catching, running and kicking, and football training naturally offers scope for practising these skills.

More than this, sessions give children who have poor spatial awareness and appear clumsy the chance to develop a better sense of themselves 'in time and space'.

Their position in relation to other people and objects improves, as does eye-ball co-ordination.