ASHTON TOWN AFC PROFILES PARK,
# Onward Onwards s & Upwards
Edge Green Street, Ashton in Makerfield, Wigan, WN4 8SL
COMMITTEE
President - Jimmy Cahill Chairman - Mark Hayes Vice Chairman - Gordon Johnson Vice President - Stephen Barrett Secretary - Stefan Ochwat Clubhouse Manager - Clare Peters Treasurer - Peter Williams Committee Members - Kieran Johnson, Joanne Round, Joanne Bourne, Jayne Watkinson, Alison Sinnott Catering Manager - Denise Brady Commercial Manager - Jonathan Logan Advertising & Programme Editor - Ian Pomfrett Welfare Officer - Gordon Johnson Social Media Officer - Lucy Ford Grounds Team - Jimmy Cahill, David Bourne, Keith Peacock, Kit Manager - Keith Peacock Club Covid Officer - Mark Hayes Photographer - Megan Sharples
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Welcome to our club Good Afternoon and welcome to Profiles Our progression Park for this North West Counties Division both on the field One North game against Pilkington. and off it is still being done at First of all thank you to all whom have at- pace. The quality tended today in fairly surreal times still. I of our squad and hope and trust that your families are well set up, alongside and that normality will come back one day. all things social Our start to the new season was never go- media and coming to be easy when we were drawn away mercially is something that I am really to last seasons walk away leaders Lower proud of. Despite the huge surreal disapBreck away from home in the opener. pointment of fans not being allowed at were simply magnificent last term and for games in the professional game has to be them to have a season null and void hurt an opportunity that we take to try and atthem more than anyone as without they tract and build our fan base. Without doubt should be in the division higher and last it is growing. Season tickets alone we have gone from just 1 last season to now near 70 Saturday result showed that. which is an astonishing increase. I truly Despite losing their main striker and ex hope that all those new fall in love with Town man Ste Milne to Rylands, Breck were the non league game like I did some 12 or outstanding, however it wasn't all them in so years ago, as fans really are the catapult the game, and hopefully those who attendfor a club to build. ed will back me and agree that it was far from a 5 0 defeat. As you all know, I am not one to dwell on defeat and to only go Of course I wish that you all enjoy todays forward positively, yet we were then game, but please be mindful of the rules of struck with our first postponement only social distancing, masks, no more than groups of six etc etc. Us as volunteers are two games in ! under immense pressure to keep football and our sanity alive at the moment, so the Pilks today will be a great test. Obviously a more you comply, the more we can have club on my pubs doorstep, and one that are and enjoy the beautiful game back in our going places. Last season they were allives. ready a decent outfit, so to go on to add the likes of Paul Watson, Adam Howard, Adam Gilchrist, and of course Shinks, they Onwards and upwards as always. are definitely a team now to be competing Mark Club Chairman at the top.
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Match reportv lower breck 3/10/20 Town kicked off our North West Counties Division One North season away at title favourites Lower breck in what can best be described as monsoon weather conditions. Playing in the torrential rain and into a strong wind the lads started the game brightly and were certainly a match for our hosts. The first twenty minutes of the game were played mainly in the home team‟s half, with Town creating three excellent scoring opportunities which were unfortunately not converted. Two fine saves by the home keeper from Tyreek McCallum and Tom Helwett, together with a tremendous last ditch goal line clearance by the home No5 left Ashton to rue the missed opportunities with the host team breaking up field and taking the lead in the 22nd minute of the game. The hosts increased their lead after 28 minutes and bizarrely scored two more before the half time interval direct from corner kicks, obviously assisted by the strong wind but the question has to be asked why we didn‟t position a defender on the back post where both kicks entered the net?
So, half time arrived with Town trailing by four goals to nil which to be fair was not a true reflection of the first 45 minutes and could have been so different had the three early chances been taken in the game. With Dave Moore having replaced Tom Hewlett ten minutes prior to the break,
manager Glynn Hurst made our second change of the game during the interval with Rustam Stepans replacing Tyreek McCallum. The change saw Ashton push on and threaten the hosts more in the second half with Dave Moore playing up the middle and Kieran Alley and substitute Stepans out wide. Again, the half started being mainly played in the hosts half of the field of play with Town again matching them all over the pitch. A well drilled and experienced Lower breck side were hard to break down though and they tactically fouled on every occasion that Town threatened them going forwards, breaking the play up and delaying promising attacks on each occasion. The elements also conspired against us on the day with the heavy wind that had aided the hosts during the first half dropping to almost nonexistence in the second so benefitting the hosts again. To add insult to injury Lower breck broke up field in the 89th minute and with their left sided attacking player receiving the ball clearly whilst offside, the assistant referee‟s flag remained down and Lower breck benefitted with a goal directly from the player in what can only be described as very cruel end to the game for town. So in front of a crowd of 86, who had braved the elements of the day, Lower breck ran out 5 -0 winners, a score that certainly flattered our hosts. That said they will be up there at the end of the season without doubt, not many teams, if any, will come away from the Anfield Sorts Centre with points, but the final score was not a true reflection of the game itself and harh on our lads who put in a Stirling effort on the day. #Upthetown
By Gordon Johnson
MANAGERS NOTES Good afternoon and welcome to Profiles Park to our visitors Pilkington who hold high aspirations for the season ahead and have recruited very well in their pursuit of promotion, we wish you well on your journey ahead. In writing these notes we were harshly on the wrong end of a 5-0 score line against title chasing Lower Breck who had five attempts on goal and scored five that is what makes them such dangerous opponents. From our point of view we played some tremendous football in the first 30 minutes and should have been three goals to the good with our attacking play causing havoc in the Lower Breck ranks, however we need to be more ruthless in front of goal if we want to fulfil our ambitions for this season. On another note todayâ€&#x;s game will be another test for our lads against a team who are well fancied to do well this season as always my squad relish these kind of challenges and we will do everything within our power to put three points in our tanks. Many thanks to all our supporters who have been nothing short of magnificent in everything you do for our club.
Keep believing, Hursty
By Glynn Hurst
HALF TIME QUIZ 1. The 2015/16 season was the first time which club recorded a positive goal difference in a top-flight season since 1988? 2. Which country did both Bobby Charlton in 1970, and then Terry Butcher in 1990, play their last international match against? 3. Harry Kane was the first English player to win the Premier League Golden Boot since which other English footballer? 4. As of 2018, name the largest football stadium in Essex? 5. The Stadio Giuseppe Meazzaian in Milan is better known by what name? 6. Which England international scored the only goal of his whole club career against Southampton at The Dell in October 1967? 7. In 1970, in which country was England captain Bobby Moore accused (and later, totally exonerated) of the theft of a bracelet from a jewellers? 8. Which player holds the record as the youngest player to play in a World Cup finals tournament? (Hint: he also helped his country win the last ever British Home Championship in 1984) 9. Can you name the English football clubs from the following nicknames: (a)Railwaymen, (b)the shakers, (c)the pirates, and (d)the throstles? 10. There are many professional football clubs that have taken a Beatles song as their nickname; Villarreal in Spain are the most famous. Which Beatles' song do they take their nickname from?
1. West Ham United 2. West Germany 3. Kevin Phillips (Sunderland, 1999-2000) 4. Roots Hall (home of Southend United, but with plans to be replaced in the near future) 5. San Siro 6. Peter Shilton 7. Colombia 8. Norman Whiteside 9. (a)Crewe Alexandra, (b)Bury FC, (c)Bristol Rovers, and (d)West Bromwich Albion 10. Yellow Submarine (their nickname is El Submarino Amarillo (The Yellow Submarine))
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MATCH REPORT V SWALLOWNEST On Saturday 19th of September 2020, after what has got to have been the longest ever pre-season in history, the Ashton Town Players and officials met at 10.00am at the Gerard Arms home of Club Chairman Mark Hayes for a team building pre match breakfast. Our transport duly arrived for the scheduled 11.00am set off to Swallownest FC from the Northern Counties East League, an estimated two-hour journey by coach. All seemed to be going well until our coach approached Hartshead Moor Services on the M62 just before Leeds when traffic suddenly ground to halt. After remaining stationary for nearly twenty minutes we were eventually taken off at the service station and then re-joined the M62 just after an oil spillage that had caused the closure of the motorway and the usual traffic chaos that normally follows such events. Panic over, we were back on our way and arrived in plenty of time for the scheduled 3.00pm KO for the Buildbase FA Vase first qualifying round tie, our first competitive game under the stewardship of new manager Glynn Hurst.
ing problems and certainly had their defence worried. The second half began in much the same vain as the first with two sides cancelling each other out and not a great deal of goal mouth action at all. As the game appeared to be heading for a penalty shootout, Junior Dos Santos was harshly adjudged to have impeded a Swallownest player out wide just to the left of the Ashton penalty area. Not only was the free kick harsh but the yellow card issued to Junior for the incident was, on the face of it, and the balance of play even harsher. Then to run salt into the wound, after Ben Purdham dived to save the resultant free kick, the rebound fell perfectly for a Swallownest player who duly scored the only goal of the game that sent the hosts through the next round of the FA Vase.
Not the ideal start to Glynn Hurstâ€&#x;s tenure at the club but some positives for the gaffer to take from the game and the team karaoke on the coach journey home was certainly a big plus for the team bonding of the newly assembled squad that we have for the comThe first half of the game saw two evenly ing season. #Upthetown matched teams who both created a couple of chances and Town being indebted to keeper Ben Purdham for two fine saves to keep the hosts at bay. The scored remained 0-0 until the interval with the only talking point of the half being the two cautions for Swallownest defenders both for infringements against Dave Moore who, when he did get the ball out wide on the right, was caus-
By Gordon Johnson
PAWS FOR THE CURE During September we welcomed a couple of new visitors to Profiles Park in the form of Jean HenseyReynard and her four-legged friend Lottie (Both pictured below).
With there being no Cancer Research Race for Life events being organised during 2020 due to the current COVID pandemic, Cancer research UK have will happily pass any donations onto set up the #Very2020Raceforlife to Jean & Lottie. allow individuals to walk or run a distance of their choice whether that be 5k or 10k. Jean and Lottie have taken up the challenge to raise money for the Cancer Research Charity and named their efforts „Paws for the Cureâ€&#x;. The pair have been using the concrete hard standing around our Profiles Park playing surface to chalk up as many steps as possible in order to complete their challenge, being joined along the way by our ground staff team, Jimmy Cahill & Keith Peacock together with our Catering Manager and Committee member Denise Brady. Should anybody feel inclined to sponsor Jean & Lottie in their fundraising endeavours then please speak to Denise in the clubhouse who
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Safeguarding - ‘Safe To Play’
Ashton Town AFC are supporting the Liverpool County FA „Safe to Play‟ Safeguarding initiative which was recently launched by the County FA in conjunction with the NWG Exploitation Response Unit who developed the scheme in conjunction with been developed in partnership with Sport England to help to keep children safe whilst playing their chosen sporting activities. NWG Child abuse through sport has featured prominently in UK major media outlets recently, the former football coach Barry Bennell was again convicted at his fourth trial on Friday 31 July 2020 at Cheshire Crown Court. Bennell abused hundreds of children during his career as a football coach and the scale of his offending behaviour is truly staggering; many of his victims are still struggling to cope in their adult life following abuse at the hands of Bennell in their childhood. Recently many more former athletes have also been disclosing their abuse at the hands of coaches in a variety of sports and the problems is truly a global one, disclosures of abuse in sport have come from athletes from the USA, Netherlands, Korea, Japan, Australia all within the last few weeks. Safeguarding children and adults at risk is everyone‟s business, the new Safe to Play campaign has been designed specifically for the sports community to help raise awareness of how abuse can occur through sport. The campaign's efforts are aimed at parents, coaches and children in order to help them understand what to look out for and how to respond to concerns. Questions NWG often asks parents are: “As parents would you know how to recognise when something is not right at your child‟s sports club, would you know who to approach if you had concerns and would you have the confidence to complain to a Head Coach about either his or her behaviour?”
The Safe to Play campaign utilises Augmented Reality (AR) technology as a new method of engaging parents whose children play sport. NWG have produced a short campaign video featuring a family scenario around sport and three short vignettes from a child, a parent and a sports coach relating to the story. The videos are embedded in a small credit card sized resource that can be viewed using a smart phone or other digital technologies. The augmented realty card is packed with information that will help parents, coaches, and children to be able to keep safe in sport and you can also access the Stop-CSE website for links to more free to download and share sports resources, all from the comfort of your smart phone or tablet. The campaign has had excellent feedback from parents who value the unique nature of the technology and the ease of use and ability to view the resources with their children, they could relate to the central character Jamie who features in the video and felt more confident after using the AR card to raise concerns and just as importantly ask the right safeguarding questions about the club. The small credit card size resources are available from the club house at Profiles Park and also from Liverpool County FA. Gordon Johnson, Designated Safeguarding Officer for Liverpool County FA & also Club Welfare Officer for Ashton Town, said: “Liverpool County FAs a County FA Safeguarding Officer and also Club Welfare Officer I am delighted to collaborate with Kevin, his team from the NWG Network and Sport England in the promotion of the „Safe to play‟ campaign. Safeguarding both children and Adults at Risk is one of the key priorities of everybody involved in football and I hope that the distribution of these resources via Ashton Town will help to keep this at the forefront of everybody‟s minds who are involved in football, whether that be as a player, coach, volunteer, spectator or parent.” Any Club Welfare Officer wishing to receive cards and/or advertising posters can do so by contacting Gordon at gordon.johnson@liverpoolfa.com or Kevin Murphy at the NWG Response Unit on kev@nwgnetwork.org
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Meet the manager Glynn Hurst was born in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, on 16th January 1976 but moved to South Africa at a young age. He is a former professional footballer who played as a striker. Glynn started his career as a Tottenham Hotspur apprentice, but could not break into the first team. He joined Barnsley in 1994, where he was sent out on loan to many clubs including Swansea City, Scarborough and Mansfield Town. In 1997, he dropped out of the professional game and had a spell at Emley in the Northern Premier League. Since then he has played for Ayr United and Stockport County, and was top goal scorer for Chesterfield with 20 goals in all. After Chesterfield, Hurst played for Notts County where he was the club's top goal scorer with 15 goals in the 2004–05 season. Despite having scored nine goals in the 2005–06 season, Hurst was released from his Notts County contract on 29 December 2005. He joined Shrewsbury days later. After scoring on his Shrewsbury debut against cross-border rivals Wrexham, Hurst scored twice more in fifteen further matches before the season's end. An injury-hit pre-season saw Hurst have back and Achilles problems and lose his place in the team at the start of 2006– 07. By late September he had yet to return to the first-team, and as a result Shrewsbury sent him on loan to Bury for a month, in the hope of his regaining match fitness and goalscoring form. Hurst's Bury debut saw him hit two goals against Barnet in a 2–2 draw. After accumulating five goals in five league games, on 26 October 2006, the loan was extended until January 2007. An undisclosed transfer fee was agreed for Hurst who, in the January 2007 transfer window, signed a permanent contract lasting until the end of 2007–08. On 18 May,
it was announced that Glynn has been releasedby Bury at the end of his contract. Despite being linked with a move to Wrexham and playing a couple of pre-season friendlies for Chester City, Hurst eventually signed for non-League outfit Gainsborough Trinity, scoring on his debut. On 4 December 2009, he joined Conference North outfit Hyde United. He made his debut on 12 December 2009 in a 4–0 away defeat to Alfreton Town in the Conference North. In February 2010 Hyde announced that he would become their assistant manager after former assistant boss Gerry Harrison left earlier that month. On 10 September 2010 Hurst parted ways with Hyde to try to resurrect his playing career, which he was not able to do with them. Hurst signed for FC United of Manchester after watching them in a 3–0 victory over Radcliffe Borough in the FA Cup, on 11 September 2010. He scored for the club on his debut the following weekend. Glynn Hurst eventually retired from playing on 8 January 2011. During his career the Gaffer has represented the South Africa at U23 international level earning a total of five caps. After retiring from playing, Hurst became a Religious Education and PE teacher, also coaching the school football team and in the summer of 2019, he became reserve team coach at Marine AFC in the West Cheshire League, winning promotion if his first and only season with the club. In May 2020 Glynn Hurst was appointed as our manager here at Ashton Town. Welcome to Ashton Glynn, let‟s hope your time at the club is an enjoyable and successful one.
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On this day 10th october
Rob Green is perhaps, sadly, best remembered to his gaff which gave away a goal to USA in the 2010 World Cup finals but on this day in 2009 he hit the headlines when he became the first England goalkeeper to be sent off. Playing in Dnipropetrovsk in a World Cup qualifier against Ukraine he was red-carded for a professional foul on Artem Milevskiy after just 14 minutes.
He was replaced by David James, the spot kick was missed but England lost 1-0 although by then had already won a place in the World Cup finals in South Africa.
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Billy pomfrett 1939-2020
Sadly, on Tuesday 5th May 2020, during the Covid-19 Lockdown, Ashton Town lost its longest and most loyal servants with the passing of Billy Pomfrett. Billy joined the club as a 17-year-old centre half in 1957, and bar playing for Makerfield Mill whom changed their name to Ashton Town in 1962, he played for no other club. Amazingly some 63 years later he was still a key figure at the club, despite bad health taking over in the latter years. Well known to many in the North West Counties League, Billy will be long remembered for his humour and dry comments, mainly saved for match officials it must be said, but never with any malice intended though.
at the time, Billyâ€&#x;s funeral on Wednesday 13th May was a small family occasion but there was a fantastic turn-out here at Profiles Park on the day, when club committee members, players both past and present and many others who knew Billy from the local community and the football family, turned out to line the club car park and out along Edge Green Street to applaud the cortege as Billy left the ground for the very last time en route to his family memorial service at Wigan Crematorium.
Due to the Lockdown restrictions in place
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HISTORY OF ASHTON TOWN Ashton Town Association Football Club originally joined the Div 2 of the Lancashire Combination in 1903 and were promoted Div 1 in 1st season. However, relegated back to Div 2 after finishing 16 in first season of Div 1. Towards the end of 1910/11 season club withdrew from league and fixtures taken over by Tyldesley Albion. The Club was reformed in 1953 as Makerfield Mill FC and after a short spell in the Wigan Sunday School League, they played in the St Helens Combination League for three years before joining the Warrington and District Amateur League in 1958. The founder was a persistant man named Derek „Mick‟ Mycock. In 1962 the Club was forced to move from its original ground at Windsor Road because of land development and it was at this point the Club name was changed to Ashton Town AFC. Home games were played on a public park pitch at Whithill Street Recreation Ground in Bryn until 1964, at
which point the Club purchased a piece of land at Edge Green Street, previously the home of Stubshaw Cross Rovers. This became the Club`s new home, and development of the ground began. In 1969 the Clubhouse was completed, and was opened by Liverpool and England star Roger Hunt, and in 1975 the present dressing room facilities were built. During this period the Club joined the Lancashire Combination in 1971, and then in 1978, they left to join the Cheshire County League for four years. The formation of the North West Counties Football League 1982 saw Ashton Town join as founder members, and the Club has remained in the league since then with the exception of season 1985-86, when they played in the Manchester League while essential ground maintenance work was carried out to bring the ground up to stringent ground grading requirements for the NWCF League. Throughout the years there have been many custodians of the club, owned by noone, powered by volunteers. I‟ll surely miss out a host of names here but….Notable is the involvement of Jack Longstaffe, Pat Dooney, Barry & Sandra Longstaffe, Gordon Ellis,, Les Bailey, Len Riley, Malcolm Magrath, Billy Pomfrett and Jimmy Cahill.
The latter two who have clocked up over a hundred years service to Town and Jimmy is still here on a daily basis. In more recent times, Clare and James Horner made a massive boost to the club with the long overdue formation of a Junior section. As did the arrival of our current Chairman, Mark Hayes, who has helped build the profile of the club both locally and nationally. Other volunteers to mention are Steve, Stefan, Denise, Ian, Dawn, Peter, Clare, Joanne and more recently, Keith whose dedication and workrate is second to none on quite often a day to day basis. It would go amiss if I didn‟t mention at this point Brian Cunliffe, who has on and off, over the years worked behind the scenes painting, digging or mending often without the right resources for the job…..it‟s people like this who really make a place what it is. So Many to mention, others to forget, but we are here and that wouldn‟t exist if it weren‟t for those who give up their time and effort to keep the club alive. Our motto ...... „Onwards & Upwards‟, sums us up as we now strive for promotion.
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OUR CHOSEN CHARITY support from multiple football, rugby and television stars over Joseph‟s Goal is a Wigan-based the years including Pep Guardicharity, ran by a small group of ola, Harry Redknapp and Joe family and friends who all vol- Calzaghe. unteer their services. The charity has received support from Wigan Council, Wigan Warriors and Wigan Athletic, as well as schools, local organisations and the business community. Joseph‟s Goal have raised most of their funds through charity balls, football matches, bike rides, marathons and 10-Ks, swimathons, spinathons, Xmas jumper days, numerous other In 2013, Joe was the mascot fundraising events, and hun- for Wigan Athletic in the FA dreds of donations from gener- Cup Final and was carried out ous people. Ashton Town AFC onto the pitch at Wembley by now host an annual charity skipper, and charity ambassalegends football match, after dor Emmerson Boyce, which the huge success of the inau- led to television appearances gural match in May 2015, with on BBC North West, ITV, Granathe Latics Legends thumping a da and Sky News. Many Latics Hollyoaks XI 10-0 with a sen- fans believe that Joe was a sational performance. Town lucky charm as Wigan defied chairman, Mark Hayes was the odds to beat Manchester touched by Joe‟s story and has City 1-0 and claim their first been actively involved in the major trophy in the club‟s hischarity‟s fundraising efforts for tory, similar to how Joe manseveral years. This years event aged to defy all the odds given is the fifth annual Joseph‟s Goal by the doctors to reach his 10th legends game and is set to be birthday on Thursday May 9th another classic with the likes of 2019. Joe‟s father Paul Bryan Robson, Emmerson Boyce Kendrick, a life-long Wigan Athand Arjan De Zeeuw gracing the letic sup-porter and the Latics Ashton Town turf. Since Jo- correspondent for Wigan Today, sephs story was shared publicly, was gobsmacked that Joe was the 10-year-old has become a given the opportunity to be a little star in the local area and mascot. In 2014, Joseph‟s famrecognised throughout the Unit- ily were the WISH FM “Local ed Kingdom for his fantastic Heroes Family of the Year” and story in defying all the odds. Joseph switched on the ChristJoseph‟s Goal has also received mas lights in Wigan Town Cen-
tre. Joseph‟s Goal was recognised further in 2014 by the Wigan Council for contributing to the “Believe in Wigan” campaign. In April 2019, Joe returned to his role as Wigan Athletics‟ lucky charm as he featured pitchside at half-time during Wigan‟s shock victory against Leeds United. This was after more than 70 Latics fans heroically walked 58-miles over three days for the charity from Wigan‟s Euxton training ground to Elland Road, organised by Martin Tarbuck from the Mudhutter fanzine. Joseph‟s story has inspired thousands of people to help fundraise for NKH and contribute to their bid in finding a cure for the very rare condition. Help us to raise money for further research and hopefully edge closer to the end goal of helping Joe and other children with the same condition. Joseph's Goal is a registered charity in England and Wales
Charity number: 1151548
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