Watch: Chichester City Girls complete the toilet roll challenge

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In these days when no-one can go out or meet up with their football teammates, more and more are finding inventive ways to pass the time.

That certainly goes for the members of the Chichester City Girls' under-11 football team (and their parents and coaches).

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They have put together a video of the players doing their own version of the toilet roll challenge, a game of skill that first surfaced among top clubs' players early in the coronavirus crisis.

It's not so easy to do keepy-uppys with a toilet roll then volley it on to another member of the team when they live a street or two away but the video evidence seems to suggest the Chi girls have done.

Girls' football at Chichester / Picture: Sheena BookerGirls' football at Chichester / Picture: Sheena Booker
Girls' football at Chichester / Picture: Sheena Booker | freelance

VAR may be called for in one or two sections of the challenge, although the use of slo-mo video and opera music means we think the Chi girls' effort is one of the best seen yet.

Judge for yourselves in the video, above

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