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Blind footballers start 120-mile walk to Wembley

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West Bromwich Albion's blind football team has set out on a 120-mile charity walk from Wembley Stadium to the Hawthorns.

Joined by prolific fundraiser Dave Heeley, known as "Blind Dave", the group started their five-day trek on Monday.

The group is hoping to raise £30,000 for the football club's charity, the Albion Foundation.

Director of the foundation, Rob Lake, is part of the challenge and is putting himself in the players' shoes by wearing a blindfold for the entirety of the challenge.

Mr Lake said: "I wanted to understand more what it's like to be like 'Blind Dave' and the players and to do something of endurance with no visual stimulus.