HUDDERSFIELD Town have teamed up with local schools to enforce the message that offensive language will not be tolerated.
The club has run the competition between schools that came to the recent ‘One Game, One Community’ match against Wolves through the Club’s ‘Schools Focus’ initiative.
And the poster designed by 10-year-old Christchurch Academy pupil Alisha Bean has been chosen.
It will be displayed around the Stadium on Huddersfield Town match days after she won the club’s ‘Report It’ competition.
The club asked schoolchildren to design a ‘Report It’ poster to use at Huddersfield Town, to promote the hotline where fans can anonymously report abusive language in order to encourage a welcoming and friendly atmosphere on match days.
Kids handed in their designs at the Information Point at the Wolves game on October 20 and Town’s ‘One Game, One Community’ ambassadors Peter Clarke and Sean Scannell chose Alisha’s design as the winner.
Her design will now be turned into a poster that will be displayed around the Stadium on Town match days and as an added bonus Peter and Sean will visit Alisha at school to say thank you.
Huddersfield Town’s supporter partnerships manager Robyn Deegan said: "The club would like to thank every pupil and class that entered the ‘Report It’ competition – we had a lot of fantastic entries.
"It was a tough ask to pick a winner, but Sean and Peter chose Alisha’s design because it combined a bright design with genuine prominence of the ‘Report It’ message – which is obviously the important point for our Stadium on match days."
The club is urging fans who hear anything in the stands that makes them feel uncomfortable or which they believe qualifies as abusive behaviour, to report it by phoning or texting 07741 528949.
They can then tell the club which block and stand they are in and leave them to deal with it.
