A BARNSLEY lad is following in his great grandfather’s footsteps by playing for the Reds.
Jack Bennett, seven, from Poplars Road in Kendray, has signed to the Barnsley Junior Tykes under nines team.
His great grandad Morris Hudson played for the Reds’ first team in 1954, alongside football legend Tommy Taylor, who went on to play for Manchester Utd and died in the Munich air disaster.
Morris died in 2007. But Jack’s mum and Morris’s granddaughter Sarah says Morris would be extremely proud of him continuing the family’s legacy of representing the town.
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