Wembley dream come true as Shrewsbury schoolboy Charlie, 7, to be match mascot
A seven-year-old schoolboy from Shropshire is in dreamland after winning a competition to be a mascot at next week's UEFA Champions League Final at Wembley.
Charlie Sargeant, a Year Two pupil at Greenfields Primary School in Shrewsbury, has topped an international Priceless Moments MasterCard contest and will now lead some of Europe's top football stars onto the hallowed Wembley turf in front of 90,000 expectant fans on May 25.
It comes after people were touched by his struggle for life when he was born 11 weeks premature and was nursed back to full health by staff at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital.
His mother Nicola, 38, posted the on a competition page on Facebook and more than 400 people voted for Charlie - making him the overall winner.