Albion's newly appointed disability football officer Teresa Sanders has a five-year blueprint for success.

Sanders wants to ensure every youngster in Sussex will get the opportunity to play the game at his or her own level.

The club's Football In The Community Scheme will receive £100,000 over that period from the FA-administered Football Foundation which supports grassroots initiatives.

She also hopes another £50,000 will be available through private sponsorship, the local authority and Albion itself.

Sanders intends to put the cash to good use. She wants to:

Further develop the four Specials clubs in the county. (Forest Flyers (Horsham), Mid Sussex (Burgess Hill), East Brighton and the Seagull Specials which caters for around 250 players.

Expand involvement in special schools in Sussex with taster coaching sessions and a competitive structure.

Organise a girls-only Seagulls Specials team.

Provide better opportunities for wheelchair footballers.

Encourage performance centres for elite players to follow the path of England triallists like Michael Ishola, Ryan Healey and James Horton.

Develop football for the blind, visually impaired, deaf and those with impaired hearing.

She said: "I've so many ideas in my head which have been suggested by the kids themselves and now I going to be able to act on them "We want the four clubs to be sustainable. There are 54 special schools in Sussex and I want to get to all of them. We've had links with around 40 but I want to increase our involvement and start going into the schools we haven't been to.

"We want to give them a taste of what football is like and, with the school competitions and the clubs, we can provide a path.

"Seagull Specials are already the driving force for disability football and I want to keep us ahead of the game by expanding. I want us to be bigger and better around the county so others in the country will try to match us and improve their set-ups "I feel very strongly about this, it's my baby. So much negative publicity surrounds football. This is an opportunity to improve the image of the game and make it mean something to people in their lives, not just on the football field. It's easy to be enthusiastic about what I do when you see what the kids get out of it.

"Albion aren't just paying lip service to this. They have been hugely supportive during this past year when we've run a pilot scheme to convince the likes of the Football Foundation that it is an initiative worth investing in.

"Martin Perry and Steve Ford at Albion have worked tirelessly and they've given me almost everything I've asked for, even the use of Withdean to play on!

"Hopefully if the community stadium becomes a reality the disability football set up will be very much a part of it."

The former Albion and Chelsea Ladies footballer, 29, and her team, have coached nearly 2,000 youngsters aged from 3-19 years with disabilities that include physical impairment, sensory impairment, communication difficulties, limited understanding, autistic spectrum disorders and severely challenged behaviour.

Seagull Specials overcame second-placed Chelsea away 8-2 to extend their lead at the top of the National Disability League (South East) to eight points.

Ryan Healey scored four goals, Ben Leathan two with Tom Gaylor and John Ishola netting one apiece. It completed a double following a recent 7-5 victory against the Blues.

Sanders said: "It was a vital win and we still have a game in hand on Chelsea. The team are delighted. They achieved it without their leading goalscorer, James Horton, who was on holiday.

"James phoned from France ten minutes after the match had finished. That is the kind of team spirit we've got."

Seagull Specials were pipped 6-5 in a friendly against Wimbledon.