Paralympic blind footballer David Clark was the guest speaker at the Stags GCSE certificate presentation evening. 

David Clark told St Albans Girls’ School of his personal career journey into football and how a very special school teacher changed his life by creating a football that he could hear. 

First they began by experimenting with putting rice inside the football, but it eventually went soft so could no longer be heard. 

The next step was to place bells inside the ball which worked  well and this eventually lead David on to enjoy a distinguished career in competitive football.  

Head Girl, Year 12 student Sam Springle, said: "I thought his speech was really inspirational, he is truly a remarkable man who just never gave up and he made his dreams come true which is wonderful."

David has achieved 144 caps for the England blind football five aside team and scored an impressive 128 goals.

In addition to this David has a place in the National football museums hall of fame in Manchester.