Marcus Rashford (born 31 October 1997) is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Manchester United and the England national team.
A Manchester United player from the age of seven, he scored two goals on both his first-team debut against Midtjylland in the UEFA Europa League in February 2016 and his Premier League debut against Arsenal three days later.
He also scored in his first Manchester derby match, his first EFL Cup match and his first UEFA Champions League match. With United, Rashford has so far won the FA Cup, EFL Cup, FA Community Shield and UEFA Europa League.
Marcus Rashford will be invited to Rochdale to promote a ‘read and feed' scheme run by libraries over the summer holidays
manchestereveningnews.co.ukhereCoun Blundell said: “What we can not get away from is that the only reason that the scheme has to exist, the only reason I was seeing children turn up at Smallbridge Library looking for lunch is that this government has seen child poverty skyrocket.”He added that former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s constituency had gone from helping 80 families a year to around 1,200 over the last winter period, something he found ‘utterly frightening’.“The fact is we need to make sure children get access to healthy meals through the summer holidays.
But this wasn’t happening on the scale it has been.“This is Victorian, we haven’t seen this through the noughties, the only reason this exists is because of the actions of the Conservative.
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