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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, Alison Sinnott Catering Manager - Denise Brady Commercial Manager - Jonathan Southward
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Welcome to our club Good evening and welcome to Profiles Park for this afternoons North West Counties North tie against Daisy Hill. Wow. What a few days. Let me start by simply saying that Saturday away at Nelson was simply not acceptable. As Chairman I take full responsibility and I do not work my arse off all week to watch my team play like that. I 100% back the lads whom are here, and within a heartbeat I would be in their corner if needed, however from 445pm on Saturday something needed to change.
I have followed Biggs and his journey since I am absolutely delighted to announce the leaving us and have been secretly smiling appointment of Lee Bignell as Ashton Town as he has done exactly what I wanted him Manager. to do. What we lack at the minute is a Biggs, and I am made up that the time has fell just right with him being unattached for the last few weeks from him leaving Prescot. Adam takes the role of Head Coach. It was very, very important that Adam was on board with this move, and 100% Adam was my priority. Adam will have a very successful career in football and am made up that we still have him in our locker. Incoming, and also returning is Michael Smith as Assistant Manager. Mouse went on to be a huge part of the Rylands backroom team that won the FA Vase, and then latterly worked at Ramsbottom United. Mouse was very highly rated when he was here last and he left very prematurely under Demps. When Biggs said Mouse was on board I genuinely fist pumped as I truely believe we have a very special trio here now at the helm of our club. When Biggs left us I promised him that I would call when the time is right. The time is right, but 100% this is to work alongside Adam James whom has been outstanding for us.
This is our time. This is when we now collectively step up and battle. Players. Fans. Management. The season starts tonight ! Mark - Club Chairman
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HISTORY OF ASHTON TOWN as Ashton Town Association Football Club originally joined the Div 2 of the Lancashire Combination in 1903 and were promoted to Div 1 in their 1st season. However, quickly relegated back to Div 2 after finishing 16th. Towards the end of 1910/11 season the club withdrew from the league and fixtures were 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 persistent man named Derek „Mick‟ Mycock. In 1962 the Club was forced to move from its original ground at Windsor Road due to 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 when the Club purchased a piece of land at Edge Green Street which was 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. Then in 1975 the present dressing room facilities were built.
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ssociation football club 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 work rate 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 (pic below), who has on and
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 ever since 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 no-one, 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 R.I.P 5/5/20 (right pic far right) and Jimmy Cahill (pic below far right). 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 off, over the years worked behind the Horner made a massive boost to the club scenes painting, digging or mending often with the long overdue formation of a Junior 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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HISTORY OF Situated one and a half miles south of Westhoughton town centre, four miles from Bolton and five miles from the University of Bolton Stadium, home of Bolton Wanderers, the village of Daisy Hill first saw football in season 1894-95 although it is possible that football was being played in the area for some years prior to that date. James Street Recreation Ground/Cricket Ground until the landowner made an offer to the club to The first known honours for the club came in 1896 return to New Sirs in 1957. -97 when the Wigan and District League Championship and the Westhoughton Cup were won without losing a match. The acquisition of the lease was a major step forward and gave aspiration to move into the Bolton Combination and develop into one of the The location of the club‟s ground in those days is most formidable clubs in the area. Dressing rooms unknown but the present ground was used during were erected at the ground for the start of the the first world war period when the club played in 1968/69 season whilst on the field the club won the Leigh and District Senior Sunday School the Bolton Combination Premier Division on four League. occasions, the Bolton Combination Cup on four occasions and the Lancashire Amateur Shield The club then joined the Westhoughton League twice during the 60‟s and 70‟s. and during the 1920‟s and 1930‟s won many honours in what was one of the strongest local In 1978 the Club was accepted into the Lancashire leagues at the time. Football Combination and with the advent of the Non-League football pyramid and the subsequent Little is known of the period leading up to the amalgamation of the Lancashire Football second world war but the club re-formed in 1951 Combination and the Cheshire County League the playing in the Westhoughton League on the St.
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DAISY HILL FC the former Lancashire Cricket Club Captain Mike Watkinson went on to sign for Blackpool. (Mike himself had the odd game for the club). Sam Marsh (Bolton Wanderers and Bury), Alf Gray (Torquay United and Lincoln City), Greg Strong (Motherwell) and Danny Williams (Inverness Caledonian Thistle) began their careers in senior or junior football at Daisy Hill Football Club. Club became a founder member of the North West Other notable people / sportspersons born in Counties League giving them the opportunity to Westhoughton who may or may not have been play in and bring national competition to the associated with the club: Ethel Johnson (Great village. Britain Olympic Athlete), Joe Bromilow (American Olympic Athlete), Jack Bruton (Blackburn Rover, With the National League System requiring clubs Burnley, Bournemouth and England). Joe Clare to meet new standards for facilities, new dressing (Accrington Stanley, Norwich City and Lincoln rooms and a clubhouse for social activities were City). Tommy Woodward (Bolton Wanderers and erected at New Sirs in 1982. Since then Middlesborough), Francis Lee (Bolton Wanderers, improvement of the club‟s facilities has been Manchester City, Derby County and England). ongoing and for the 2005-2006 season a floodlighting system was installed which allowed the club to remain in the National League System and return to National and County competitions. Notable players include Dick Pollard and Billy Farrimond, both of whom went on to play cricket for Lancashire and England, Alf Watkinson, grandfather of
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Who’s played at edge green st David Anthony Lowe was born on 30th August 1965, he is an English former footballer and is currently assistant head coach of Blackburn Rovers. He made 563 league appearances in the English Football League and Premier League, scoring 133 goals, in a career spanning 17 years. He played in the top five levels of English football and won two caps for the England under-21s. He began his career at Wigan Athletic in 1983 and helped the club to lift the Football League Trophy in 1985. He won a £80,000 move to Ipswich Town two years later and helped the club to the Second Division title in 1991–92, though he spent the end of the campaign on loan at Port Vale. He was sold on to Leicester City for £250,000 in July 1992, though he returned to Port Vale on loan in February 1994, helping the "Valiants" to win promotion out of the Second Division. On his return to Leicester he found the club in the Premier League. In March 1996, he returned to Wigan Athletic for a fee of £125,000 and helped the club to the Third Division in 1996–97. He joined Wrexham for the 1999–2000 campaign, though ended it on loan at high-flying Conference club Rushden & Diamonds. After retiring as a player, Lowe worked for
the Professional Footballers' Association until June 2002, when he joined Wigan Athletic under former teammate Paul Jewell. A fully qualified coach, Lowe fulfilled various roles at Wigan before following Jewell to Derby County and becoming Head of the Youth Academy at the club. Following the departure of Jewell and prior to the arrival of new manager Nigel Clough, Lowe was placed in temporary charge of solitary game in January 2009, where his Derby team beat Manchester United 1–0 in the first leg of the League Cup semi-final at Pride Park Stadium. He left the club in April 2009. He then did part-time work for Manchester United, in charge of the eldest participants in Manchester United Soccer Schools, before joining the back-room staff at Tranmere Rovers. In June 2011, Lowe joined Blackburn Rovers as head of youth coaching and in February 2017 Lowe was made assistant head coach to new club manager Tony Mowbray. David Lowe first appeared here at Edge Green Street in May 2015 as a member of the Latics Legends team that beat the Holyoaks Celebrity side 10-0 in front of a record crowd for the ground of 2000.
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Haddaway who deflected the ball into the net to put Brocton ahead. It wasn't until the second half when the home side really took control of the game and Jack McVey levelled on the hour. Ten minutes later the crowd were delighted when Luke Murray put The Ravens ahead, whoch was the way it stayed. A good win for the home side but more importantly the club are up and running with home games, safety measures are in place and the Isle of Man has its own team playing on the doorstep representing the Island in the National League System.
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Notes from the Head coach Good evening everyone! First of all, let me welcome Daisy Hill to Profiles Park for tonight’s game. Both teams are in need of a win and hopefully we can come out victorious on the night. I want to take the chance to welcome Lee Bignell and Michael Smith back to the club. Results over the past few games have not been good enough. Although performances have been better, the results have not. We have bolstered the management team further and now we need to kick on and get us back up to the top and challenging for a top 5 spot.
What happened in the second half was simply not good enough. We did not match their intensity and dropped deeper and deeper as the half went on and they fully deserved to come away with a draw. Two vital points dropped at home.
It was great to see Jay White back in the goals on Saturday away at Nelson. We had a great start to the game with Jay scoring after brilliant build up play. After that, Nelson deserved the three points with their overall performance. In difficult conditions, we We have seen a few new players join over did not play good the past seven days. Jay Tomo has rejoined football at all and is the club, Bradley Williams and Kevin something that we need Cringle have both joined from South to improve on tonight. Liverpool and Tyler Magee has joined from Tommy Grindrod took a Widnes. All players have featured in the knock and was last two games and we are looking forward substituted early on, to working with them for the rest of the hopefully he is not out for a while and is season. back on the playing field soon. Our first half performance against Campion last Saturday was absolutely brilliant. We led 2-0 at the break and it should have been more, they simply could not cope with us. If we put more performances in like that we will pick up a lot of points.
We are looking forward to putting in a good performance for the fans tonight and picking up three points. Your support is vital for us and greatly appreciated, get behind the boys and let’s make it a special night for everyone! Adam.
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On this day 9TH NOVEMBER 9th November 1889 When Notts County found themselves a player short for their Football League match against Aston Villa on November 9th 1889 they borrowed a player from their near neighbours, non-leaguers Nottingham Forest. The match ended 1-1 at Trent Bridge but Villa objected saying the borrowed player was ineligible as he wasn't registered to play for County. The League Management Committee upheld that complaint docking Notts County one point and fining them £5. The player Notts County borrowed was Tinsley Lindley who was a remarkable character. As a 16-year old he scored a hat-trick on his debut for Nottingham Forest and later scored 14 goals in 13 appearances for England. He wore walking shoes rather than traditional football boots as he could run quicker in them and remained an amateur player throughout his playing career. He also played County cricket for Nottinghamshire. He also studied law at Cambridge University and was a barrister and in that capacity took charge of County's appeal against the punishment claiming that by imposing both a fine and a points penalty Notts County had been punished twice. A General Meeting of the League clubs accepted his argument dropping the one point deduction but increasing the fine to £25 9th Nov 1990 Love him or hate him Mark Lawrenson was a well-known as a football pundit on TV but he once had a 'proper' job in the game. After a long and successful playing career with Brighton, Preston and
Liverpool he dipped his toe into management but that career came to an end on 9th November 1990. After a little over a year as manager of Fourth Division Peterborough United a fallout with the clubs' board saw him leave the Posh and those television cameras were waiting. 9th November 2000 The day after an Old Trafford crowd of 66,776 had seen Manchester United defeat Dynamo Kiev 1-0 to narrowly qualify from their Champions League group United captain Roy Keane criticised the poor vocal support the team had at the match. His main complaint was directed to the fans in the hospitality boxes with Keane saying 'they have a few drinks and probably the prawn sandwiches and they don't realise what's going on out on the pitch.' From then on people in hospitality boxes became the prawn sandwich brigade while Roy Keane couldn't escape the association with the crustacean, years later many shops gave buyers of his newly published autobiography a free prawn sandwich! 9th November 2016 Donald Trump was declared the next President of the US of A just months after the shock Brexit vote and we were all told why this had happened, it was Leicester City's fault! It seems that City's shock Premier League title success gave hope to all the underdogs in the world that they can stand up and be successful. So the world voted for Brexit and Donald Trump. Well, I can see the logic!
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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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