Saints legend Matt le Tissier drives 11-year-old to school prom to help beat bullies

We live in a scary, often depressing world, filled with terrorist attacks, Brexit, tooth decay, and Donald Trump bidding for the White House.

But every so often a story comes along that reminds you not everything is awful. Our story begins with 11-year-old Ben Shaw from Southampton. Ben has been learning football at the Matt le Tissier Natural Coaching Academy since 2012. And for a young Saints fan, who better to be coached by, than the club's most legendary player? Only problem: some of the kids at Ben's school thought he was having them on when he said Le Tiss was one of his coaches. "Ben has had a hard time at school, they were taking the mick out of him saying he doesn’t go to the MLT academy," mum Claire told the Southern Daily Echo. So to shut u the naysayers, Claire asked if Matt himself would drive Ben to his year six leavers prom at the Oakwood Primary School. And Matt only said yes.

[Southampton FC] Young fan's dream comes true when Saints legend takes him to prom https://t.co/9b9RdFuIio #saintsfc pic.twitter.com/7aJtiIefNf

— SaintsFC: Daily Echo (@dailyechosaints) August 5, 2016

“We wanted to do something special for his prom and Ben was completely shocked, it was lovely,” Claire added. Ben said: “I was really excited and surprised, it was really good and all my friends were really impressed. “They wanted to know how I did it.” Take that, bullies.