Community remembers life of young football fan

LEE LUCCHESI, who was laid out last night in the kit of his beloved Liverpool, lived for football and to die on a football field was tragic, his great grandfather said last night.

Friends and classmates of the Co Louth boy who died in a freak accident on Sunday were asked to remember him as he lived, as a star footballer for the school team, a model pupil and a talented teller of jokes.

The 10-year-old's great grandfather Alvaro Lucchesi spoke of how his close-knit family have been left devastated by Lee's death. He died after goalposts fell on his head.