FA Writing Challenge, football inspired newspaper article writing

This lesson was focused on the FA writing competition which was used as two literacy lessons for years 7 and 8 in my school. It explains the competition, but can still be used (without entering the competition) as a newspaper article writing lesson using football as a stimulus. It includes planning activities, a clip and the writing of the newspaper article. The boys at my school really engaged with it, so I created my own competition on top and have included the certificate. On average, this takes 2 lessons, one explaining and planning and another writing.