‘WE CAN GIVE THEM A SECOND CHANCE’

CARING WALSALL PLAY PART IN REHABILITATING PRISONERSBy John Wragg

JAKE Welch doesn’t expect to find the next Pep Guardiola inside HMP Featherstone, but he does hope to give a prisoner a new life.Welch coaches at Walsall FC and he and the club’s community director Adam Davy go into the prison that has 690 men banged up inside it twice a week.Walsall is part of the Twinning Project, a charity set up four years ago to use football as rehabilitation for prisoners.Sixty-nine Premier League and EFL clubs are signed up to it, plus rugby union’s Saracens.Walsall do 12...

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