Facebook post about daughter’s struggle with dyslexia showed one of Sunday’s assistant referees at Wembley she is not alone
When Sunday’s Women’s FA Cup final assistant referee Sophie Dennington heard her phone pinging while she was in a strength and conditioning session, she was curious, but ignored it. Once finished, she saw three missed calls from her mum, Shelley, among the notifications and called straight away.
“She says: ‘Soph, I posted something on Facebook. All it is is a little grassroots page. I’ve seen loads of kids posting that they’re referees and they’re starting their GCSEs. Posts normally get three or four likes. All I wanted to do was just to post that you struggled with your GCSEs to show them that anything is possible and to just to keep going. I didn’t think it would get this many likes so quickly,’” says Dennington. She said goodbye, turned off her phone and went to work. After she had finished, she turned her phone on and saw the post and its 1.1 million views.
Continue reading…Facebook post about daughter’s struggle with dyslexia showed one of Sunday’s assistant referees at Wembley she is not aloneWhen Sunday’s Women’s FA Cup final assistant referee Sophie Dennington heard her phone pinging while she was in a strength and conditioning session, she was curious, but ignored it. Once finished, she saw three missed calls from her mum, Shelley, among the notifications and called straight away.“She says: ‘Soph, I posted something on Facebook. All it is is a little grassroots page. I’ve seen loads of kids posting that they’re referees and they’re starting their GCSEs. Posts normally get three or four likes. All I wanted to do was just to post that you struggled with your GCSEs to show them that anything is possible and to just to keep going. I didn’t think it would get this many likes so quickly,’” says Dennington. She said goodbye, turned off her phone and went to work. After she had finished, she turned her phone on and saw the post and its 1.1 million views. Continue reading…
