ASHTON TOWN AFC PROFILES PARK,
# Onward Onwards s & Upwards
Edge Green Street, Ashton in Makerfield, Wigan, WN4 8SL
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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 evening and welcome to Profiles Park for this North West Counties Division One North game against St Helens Town. Obviously we have not had the start that we had hoped for, but to be fair when the fixtures came out I did think our first three were harsh, ha. Lower Breck despite losing a couple of players are still the stand out favourites for our division and Pilkington have added some very good experienced counties players to an already very good squad. Added in the middle of that too, we could have played a very strong Prestwich side but the weather sorted that out. We have built a very, very good squad over pre season, and I honestly think its possibly the strongest that I have seen here in my time but obviously it takes a little period to gel, add to that the uncertainty with covid, and it has been a huge battle to keep everything in line at a football club. Onwards to tonight and St Helens Town and an opportunity to kick start our season, however of course it won't be easy. Having moved to St Helens over two years ago I keep close tabs on all. Town always have their fair share of ex Ashton players and this season they have added some real quality in Colin Quirk and Ashley Stott. Hopefully tonight won't be our last for a while, I am personally sick of the sight of Boris and the fear of every morning
wondering whether football and/ or that my pub will be operating as normal, or have more restrictions put on. On that note of course I wish that you all enjoy tonightâ€&#x;s game, but please be mindful of the rules of social distancing, masks, no more than groups of six etc etc. Us as volunteers are under immense pressure to keep football and our sanity alive at the moment, so the more you comply, the more we can have and enjoy the beautiful game back in our lives. Onwards and upwards as always. Mark Club Chairman
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Match reportv PILKINGTON FC 10/10/20 Last Saturday, the 10th of October, we hosted our first Home game of the new season which was another local derby game against our near neighbours, and this evening‟s opponents groundshare partners, Pilkington FC. Pilkington FC had built a good squad during the longer than usual preseason, bringing in the likes of striker Adam Gilchrist and experienced, ex town, defender Antony Shinks to bolster their already strong squad from last season, so we knew that a tough test was awaiting Glynn Hurst‟s young squad. The game didn‟t get off to too good a start for Town, with keeper Ben Purdham being on the wrong end of a heavy collision after just two minutes which requirement treatment from new club physio Adam Young. Shortly afterwards, on 7 minutes, Pilkington took the lead, when keeper Purdham dropped a cross, which would normally be an easy take for him, and the visitors capitalised with the first goal of the game. Our young team rallied though and fought their way back into the game with an equalising goal coming after 27 minutes from debutant Khius Metz. That goal proved to be a catalyst for the visitors though who clearly finished the first half in the ascendency and took a 2-1 lead just prior to the interval in the 42nd minute of the game.
The half time break saw manager Hurst making a couple of changes with Harry Nevitt coming on for his first game of the season in place of Tyreek McCallum and Dave Moore replacing Kieran Alley on the right side of our front three. Pilkington were unlucky not to extend their lead after 49 minutes though with a very tight offside call ruling out what would have been a third goal for the visitors. After 69 minutes keeper Purdham made amends for his earlier mistake with a fantastic triple save to keep the deficit to one goal and keep Town in the game. Following his introduction to the game, Harry Nevitt was causing the visitors all sorts of problems that they just couldn‟t handle. Consequently, in the 77th minute as Ashton were coming back into the game, the visiting Goalkeeper, Scott, raced 15 yards out of his penalty area to cynically scythe down Nevitt and take a yellow card for the team. If the cynical crunching challenge itself wasn‟t bad enough, Pilkington then extended their lead to 3-1 a minute later, giving Town a mountain to climb going into the final ten minutes of the game. The lads continued to battle though and in the 89th minute thought they had pulled a goal back, but Dave Moor‟s effort was ruled out by the assistant referee‟s flag indicating offside. So the game finished 3-1 to the visitors, a wake up call perhaps for our young side, but with some positives to take from the performances of substitutes Dave Moore and Harry Nevitt together with strong performances from captain Carl Lownsbrough, Chris Hill and Dylan Makin together with a debut goal too for Khius Metz in front of a promising first home crowd of the season, numbering 128. #UpTheTown
By Gordon Johnson
MANAGERS NOTES Good Evening and welcome to Proflles Park for this evenings game against our local rivals St Helens Town. We hope you enjoy the game and we wish you well for the season ahead. Following on from Saturday against big spending Pilkington we need to improve all aspects of our individual and collective game. The 1st half we did well and could and should have been ahead in the game with really poor errors costing us and giving us a mountain to climb we need to eradicate that from our game to give us
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games against the best teams in the division currently we are not doing that and itâ€&#x;s my responsibility to make sure we start to do it and we will. Looking ahead to tonightâ€&#x;s game we need to be fully committed to the task ahead against a much improved St Helens Town squad who will fancy their chances against us in our current form. We will be giving our everything to make sure we register our first 3 points as we look to start and climb the table. Keep Believing. Glynn
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TONIGHT’S FIXTURES Tuesday 13th October 2020 The Emirates F.A Cup 3rd Qualifying Round 19:45 Longridge Town v Skelmersdale United
The Mike Riding Ground
Premier Division 19:45 Barnoldswick Town v 1874 Northwich
Silentnight Stadium
19:45 Charnock Richard v Squires Gate
Mossie Park
19:45 Congleton Town v Runcorn Town
Cheshire Silk 106.9 Stadium
19:45 Warrington Rylands v Avro
Rylands Recreation Club
20:00 Irlam v Winsford United
The RG3 Digital Stadium
First Division North 19:00 Ashton Town v St Helens Town
Profiles Park
19:45 Atherton LR v Garstang
Crilly Park
20:00 Bacup Borough v Chadderton
Brian Boys West View Stadium
20:00 Cleator Moor Celtic v Nelson
Inglenorth Park
First Division South 19:45 Alsager Town v Cammell Laird 1907
Woodpark Stadium
19:45 Ellesmere Rangers v St Martins
Beech Grove Stadium
19:45 New Mills v Wythenshawe Amateurs
Church Lane
19:45 Vauxhall Motors v Sandbach United
The Syncreon Arena
19:45 Wythenshawe Town v Abbey Hey
Ericstan Park
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By Gordon Johnson Bayern Munich (2009, 2013 & 2015), Barcelona (2011), Atlético Madrid (2017) and Tottenham Hotspur (2019). Carl Bradshaw (72), Paul Beesley (64), Alan Kelly (63), Glyn Hodges (62), Paul Rogers (52) and Dane Whitehouse (52). Marco Simone, Filippo Inzaghi, Alessandro Del Piero, Simone Inzaghi , Vincenzo Iaquinta Antoine Griezmann (4 goals), Kylian Mbappé (4 goals), Benjamin Pavard, Paul Pogba, Samuel Umtiti and Raphaël Varane. Gareth Barry (365), Gabby Agbonlahor (322), Alan Wright (260), Lee Hendrie (251) and Steve Staunton (244). Odion Ighalo (5 Nigeria), Adam Ounas (3 Algeria), Riyad Mahrez (3 Algeria), Cédric Bakambu (3 DR Congo) and Sadio Mané (3 Senegal). David Brooks (12 AFC Bournemouth), Aaron Ramsey (10 Arsenal), Sam Vokes (3 Burnley) and Chris Mepham (1 AFC Bournemouth). Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia 1938), South Korea (1954), North Korea (1966), Israel (1970) and Iran (1978). SV Hamburg (1-7 v Liverpool 1977 and 0-2 Aberdeen 1983) Arsenal v Liverpool (155 goals in 54 matches, Arsenal 68-87 Liverpool) and Liverpool v Tottenham Hotspur (155 goals in 54 matches, Liverpool 92-63 Tottenham Hotspur).
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Which four Clubs have won the Audi Cup?
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Which six players made over 50 Premier League Appearances for Sheffield United?
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Which five Italians have scored UEFA Champions League Hat-Tricks?
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Which six Frenchmen scored Goals at the 2018 FIFA World Cup Finals?
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Which five players made over 240 Premier League Appearances for Aston Villa?
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Which five players scored three or more Goals at the 2019 CAF Africa Cup of Nations Finals?
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Which four Welshmen had Premier League Goals or Assists in 2018-19?
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Which were the first five Asian Nations to compete in a FIFA World Cup Finals Tournament?
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Which is the only Club to have lost both UEFA Super Cups they appeared in?
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Which two Premier League Fixtures have each produced a total of 155 goals?
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On this day 13th october 13th October 2004 13th October 2001
In an attempt to increase interest in the club, Brentford gave free admission to everyone who attended their Second Division match against Peterborough United on Saturday October 13th, 2001. The 11,097 crowd, who would have paid about ÂŁ70,000 if they had all been charged for entrance, was about twice the size of the previous home gate but sadly was also twice the size of their next game at Griffin Park. It was a season of nearly but not quite for Brentford finishing one point short of automatic promotion and then being beaten by Stoke in the Play Off final at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.
Tofiq Bahramov will always be remembered with affection by England fans, he was the linesman who helped get awarded the controversial England third goal in the 1966 World Cup final. When his native Azerbaijan gained independence from the Soviet Union their national stadium was renamed in his honour complete with a statue erected outside. England visited the stadium for the first time on this day in 2004 for a World Cup qualifier with captain Michael Owen scoring the only goal of the match.
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Who’s played at edge green st Bryan Robson was born on 11th January 1957 in Chester-Le-Street, County Durham, he began his career with West Bromwich Albion in 1972 before moving to Manchester United in 1981, where he became the longest serving captain in the club's history and won three FA Cups and a European Cup Winners' Cup. He also won two Premier League winners' medals. In August 2011, Robson was voted as the greatest ever Manchester United player in a poll of the club's former players as part of a new book released to celebrate their 19th league title win. Robson represented England on 90 occasions between 1980 and 1991, making him, at the time, the fifth most capped England player. His goal scoring tally of 26 placed him eighth on the list at the time. Robson captained his country 65 times, with only Bobby Moore and Billy Wright having captained England on more occasions. Robson is also known by the nicknames "Robbo" and "Captain Marvel". Bobby Robson stated that Robson was, along with Alan Shearer and Kevin Beattie, the best British player he ever worked with. Robson began his management career as a player-manager with Middlesbrough in 1994, retiring from playing in 1997. In seven years as Middlesbrough manager, he guided them to three Wembley finals, which were all lost, and earned them promotion to the Premier League on two occasions. Between 1994 and 1996, he also served as assistant coach to England manager Terry Venables, which included Euro 96. He later returned to West Bromwich Albion for two years as manager, helping them become the first top division team in 14 years to avoid
relegation after being bottom of the league table on Christmas Day. Less successful have been his short-lived spells as manager of Bradford City and Sheffield United, the former lasting barely six months and ending in relegation from what is now the EFL Championship, and the latter lasting less than a year and seeing his expensively-assembled side fail to challenge for promotion to the Premier League. On 23rd September 2009, Robson was appointed manager of the Thailand national team. He resigned on 8th June 2011. On 1st July 2011, Robson was appointed "Global Ambassador" at Manchester United In May 2019 Ashton Town Chairman, Mark Hayes, pulled off a major coup in getting Bryan Robson to agree to captain a Manchester United legends team against the Joseph‟s Goal Latics Legends team here at Edge Green Street on Saturday 25th May. Robson‟s appearance ensured that a near 2000 capacity crowd crammed into Edge Green Street to watch the game which ended in a one all draw with the Latics Legends eventually running out winners on the day following a penalty shoot out to decide the tie.
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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 Joseph‟s Goal is a Wigan-based charity, ran by a small group of family and friends who all volunteer 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 fundraising events, and hundreds of donations from generous people. Ashton Town AFC now host an annual charity legends football match, after the huge success of the inaugural match in May 2015, with the Latics Legends thumping a Hollyoaks XI 10-0 with a sensational performance. Town chairman, Mark Hayes was touched by Joe‟s story and has been actively involved in the charity‟s fundraising efforts for several years. This years event is the fifth annual Joseph‟s Goal legends game and is set to be another classic with the likes of Bryan Robson, Emmerson Boyce and Arjan De Zeeuw gracing the Ashton Town turf. Since Josephs story was shared publicly, the 10-year-old has become a little star in the local area and recognised throughout the United Kingdom for his fantastic story in defying all the odds. Joseph‟s Goal has
also received support from multiple football, rugby and television stars over the years including Pep Guardiola, Harry Redknapp and Joe Calzaghe.
lights in Wigan Town Centre. 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, In 2013, Joe was the mascot organised by Martin Tarbuck for Wigan Athletic in the FA from the Mudhutter fanzine. Cup Final and was carried out Joseph‟s story has inspired onto the pitch at Wembley by thousands of people to help skipper, and charity fundraise for NKH and ambassador Emmerson Boyce, contribute to their bid in which led to television finding a cure for the very rare appearances on BBC North condition. West, ITV, Granada and Sky News. Many Latics fans believe Help us to raise money for that Joe was a lucky charm as further research and hopefully Wigan defied the odds to edge closer to the end goal of beat Manchester City 1-0 and helping Joe and other children claim their first major trophy in with the same condition. the club‟s history, similar to how Joe managed to defy all the odds given by the doctors to reach his 10th birthday on Thursday May 9th 2019. Joe‟s father Paul Kendrick, a life-long Wigan Athletic sup-porter and the Latics correspondent for Wigan Today, was gobsmacked that Joe was given the opportunity to be a mascot. In 2014, Joseph‟s family were the Joseph's Goal is a registered charity in WISH FM “Local Heroes Family England and Wales of the Year” and Joseph Charity number: 1151548 switched on the Christmas
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Manager: Glynn Hurst Assistant: Neil Hanson Coach: Matty Manuel Physio: Adam Young Colours: Red Shirts, Red Shorts, Red Socks GK: Grey
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Referee: David Martindale, Assistant 1: Joseph Markland, Assistant 2: Jack Lucas
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