A girls' footy team has gone from losing 20-0 each week to winning promotion to the top division - after a fed-up dad started coaching.<br /><br />Leek Town Devils under 15s were getting routinely thrashed every time they turned out until Stuart Henley stepped in two years ago.<br /><br />The car valeter, 41, took the job when the previous manager quit because no one else would - and has transformed the team's fortunes.<br /><br />With the help of assistant Ivan Austin, 50, also a parent, they renamed the team the Devils and started training hard in February 2020.<br /><br />The team, who used to be called Golden Hill, now win regularly - and secured promotion for next year after finishing second in their division.<br /><br />Stuart, from Stoke-on-Trent, credits off-field bonding sessions like quizzes and a focus in training on the basics with the turnaround.<br /><br />A handful of players had never kicked a football before joining the team, so training them took hours of hard work and patience.<br /><br />He said: "To be fair the first training session was like watching a men's team just coming out of the pub. <br /><br />"But after a good few weeks we got down to training and they really started to take it in <br />what I wanted. <br /><br />"My ethos has really been on doing the basic stuff well and letting the girls decide what they feel they need to work on rather than dictate the sessions myself."<br /><br />Filmed within February 2022.
