Indefatigable 7-year-old London boy who plays football despite losing a leg wins award

“He stood up for the first time and then, with the help of his twin brother, he was walking, running, hopping. He’d go to the park and climb on the highest apparatus you could find.

“He does PE at school with no problems and plays football with all the other children.

“It does get sore quite a lot but that doesn’t stop him. He just carries on like any other normal child would.”

Ruth Gafson, headteacher at Moriah, was “thrilled for him and for the family” over the award.

“He’s a child that you just wouldn’t know has any struggles because he gets on with life like everybody else.

“He has a prosthetic leg, obviously, but by looking at him you wouldn’t see it and wouldn’t know it, because he’s wearing school trousers and school shoes.

“He’s an absolute inspiration. We’re so proud he has been acknowledged.”

Saul’s twin brother, Brandon, was “very excited for him”, Ms Klipp said. “Before the evening he was like, ‘I know he’s definitely going to win’, and he was 100 per cent right.”

Saul summed up his feelings in one word — “happy”.