BLESSED Trinity Year Eight football team are looking to emulate the Year 10s from three years ago and bring a national trophy back to Burnley.

The group have reached the last 16 of the English Schools FA Cup and now want to go all the way again -after the Ormerod Road school became the first Burnley school to win the competition in 2013.

The Year Eights have gone goal crazy in the early rounds. In the first round they saw off St Michael's High School in Chorley, winning 6-2.

Then the Blessed Trinity team, who were Lancashire champions as Year Sevens, scored 12 - Jack Doherty notching five - as they overcame Ilkley Grammar School 12-1.

Round Four saw them beat Reddish Vale High School in Stockport 6-2 and next it was William Howard School in Carlisle who they beat 3-0.

Their toughest test was the last round when they took on Yorkshire champions St Bede's and St Joseph's College in Bradford but they ran out 6-3 winner with Burnley Academy player Tom Claxton scoring a hat-trick.

Another of their players Jak McKinlay is also with the Clarets while Luke Stowe, Jack Doherty and Matthew Whitworth are on the books of Accrington Stanley and Harvey Westall plays for Rochdale's Academy.

"We are really proud of them getting so far," said Blessed Trinity's Neil Stubbs. "They are a talented group of players and it would be fantastic for the school to reach the national finals again."

Their next game is at Valley Gardens Middle School in North Tyneside on Tuesday January 26th.