Amputee football taster session

Dundee United will host a taster session for amputee footballers on Sunday thanks to the wonder goal scored by one-legged Tangerines fan Tommy McKay.

Interest in amputee football has soared since Tommy, 32, scored a spectacular lob during a half-time contest in November.

A clip of his goal has been viewed more than two million times online and his effort even earned him the Ladbrokes SPFL goal of the month.

United will be the first club on the east coast to stage a training session for amputees, with Tommy among the players taking part.

The event at United’s GA Arena from 2pm to 4pm is open to anyone with an amputation or congenital limb difference.

Tommy, who lost his leg to bone cancer at the age of nine, is an ambassador for new charity, the Amputee Football Association Scotland (AFAS) which, with Dundee United Community Trust, is hoping to form an amputee team in east Scotland.

The only team at the moment is Partick Thistle Amputees, which is where Tommy trains and which currently has to compete in the English amputee league.

Ashley Reid, executive director of AFAS, said: “Amputee football is a new discipline in Scotland, so to see our player numbers grow so rapidly in such a short time is testament to the demand that exists for the sport.”