Football fans will put their hands together to pay tribute to the passing of a special little girl.

Ebbsfleet Utd will be staging a minute’s applause before its home game against Maidenhead Utd on Saturday, to commemorate the life of courageous youngster Stacey Mowle.

Stacey, nine, of Trafalgar Road, Gravesend, lost her battle against relapsed neuroblastoma, a rare form of childhood cancer, at 6.30am last Friday.

The Stacey Mowle Appeal was set up to raise £500,000 that Stacey needed to receive specialised treatment in America.

However despite the stellar efforts of the appeal, she tragically passed away before the target could be reached.

The Mowle family are big football fans and follow Tottenham Hotspur, so it is fitting that The Fleet, Stacey’s hometown club, mark her life with a celebration on the terraces.

A statement on Ebsfleet's website said: “The Stacey Mowle Appeal was a cause close to the heart of a number of Ebbsfleet fans and the Mowle family have been visitors in the past to Stonebridge Road on several occasions.

“As such, and as Stacey’s hometown club, everyone at Ebbsfleet United Football Club would like to pass on their condolences and best wishes to the Mowle family and we are sure fans will join in wholeheartedly with the minute’s applause this coming Saturday.”

Fans have also taken to Twitter and Facebook to call for a minute’s applause to be held during Tottenham’s match against Leicester City on Saturday March 21.

The applause would take place during the ninth minute to mark Stacey’s age when she passed away.

Foxes defender Paul Konchesky is a Stacey Mowle Appeal patron and has been re-tweeting the posts by supporters, but nothing official has been confirmed by either club yet.