Manchester United Women paid tribute to Poppy in their FA Cup victory earlier, with dozens of clubs from across the country remembering her as part of a social media campaign started by South Shields-based Team Grassroots.

Youth football teams hold minute’s silence for 10-year-old Poppy Atkinson - Poppy Atkinson, 10, was fatally struck by a BMW i4 electric car at a football training session in Cumbria on Wednesday afternoon.

A minute’s silence was held today in the hometown stadium of the promising young football player who died in Kendal earlier this week.

A Lancashire football club has paid tribute to one of their young players, who died after being struck by a car, on a sports pitch in Cumbria. A minute’s silence has also been planned on Sunday after Poppy Atkinson was fatally struck by a BMW i4 electric car at Kendal Rugby Club in Cumbria on Wednesday afternoon.