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'Dare to dream'

Daily Mirror UK|March 25, 2025
Town mourns football-mad girl who died while training
- BY JEREMY ARMSTRONG
'Dare to dream'

A TOWN turned red yesterday for the little girl who was killed by a car while training on a football pitch.

The family of devoted Manchester United fan Poppy Atkinson asked mourners to wear red or their own team colours for her funeral.

On the front of the order of service was a photo of Poppy playing football with the accompanying message "Dare To Dream".

And hundreds turned out in Kendal, Cumbria, to see the 10-year-old make her final journey. Her coffin bore an artist's impression of the schoolgirl, with a football by her side, in a poppy field looking at United's Old Trafford stadium with the sun on the horizon.

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