Sport

When most lads their age are still arriving home from the night before or still sleeping it off Colchester Utd Deaf FC are up and about with a bang. And they are a determined group, keen to show that a loss of partial or full hearing just made them even more skilled on the football pitch.

Playing football can be hard enough and playing without the sense of hearing adds further difficulty but it seems that football comes naturally to this group of lads and they have football talent in abundance.