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Watch: Shameless mum filmed dancing behind goal to distract SIX-YEAR-OLD penalty taker

To what lengths should a person go to see their child succeed in sport?

Up and down the country, parents cheer from the sideline desperate to see their kid tear it up on the football field, and praying they don't get put in goal...

And here in Leeds it is no different, except one parent decided to do a Jerzy Dudek BEHIND the goal to distract the opposition's penalty taker.

Not only that, this is an UNDER-SIX football match we are talking about, not the Champions League final.

It happened during a match between Robin Hood FC, based near Leeds, and the Pinfold Pumas side.

Watch the video clip above to see the extreme measures this Pinfold parent goes to!

Then there's the joy in seeing the referee send her off from the field.

All that was left was for little Zak, Robin Hood's penalty taker, to slot it home...

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