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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, Alison Sinnott Catering Manager - Denise Brady Commercial Manager - Jonathan Southward All Commercial Enquiries- marketing.atfc@outlook.com
Programme Editor - Ian Pomfrett Welfare Officer - Gordon Johnson Grounds Team - Jimmy Cahill, David Bourne
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Welcome
to our club Good afternoon and welcome to Profiles Park for this North West Counties North tie against Nelson. Sadly a season never goes by without the glorious English weather having its say on season and now some three weeks later without a game I truly hope that we
It's been a frustrating season to say the
have played midweek at Golcar and then
least but it's imperative for all that we
we are playing Nelson today when originally finish higher up the league and where we scheduled.
deserve, not just for me, the players, the committee, or you the fans, but because we 100% deserve so. Every game for me is going to be an emotional one. I am sure that you have seen that my 14 years at Ashton Town is coming to an end. In them 14 years my life has changed and juggled from every angle and to have a life without Ashton Town is really a vision that I can not see at the minute but one that must come. Safe travels to all from Nelson today. Enjoy the game as always, Mark Club Chairman
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Notes from the first team MANAGEment Good Afternoon and welcome to Profiles Park for what is a massive game for us today after 3 defeats on the bounce. Last time out against Chadderton, I thought we were by far the better team throughout but lacked cutting edge in front of goal, we dominated and created a lot but couldn't put the ball in the back of the net and then at the other end we've made two mistakes very late on at the end of each half which has ultimately cost us. We've not played now for a couple of weeks which has allowed us to work on things in training, get lads back from injury as well as add a couple of new faces to the squad in Francis and Deklan. We felt we needed to freshen things up, particularly in attacking areas and Dek is someone we've admired for a while so we jumped at the chance to bring him in when we knew he was available. Today is a massive game for us, we've dropped down the table and gotten ourselves too close to those at the bottom. We know as a management team and a squad it's on us to get us out of the position
we're in and moving up in the right direction. We have to stay focused and switched on, cut out the mistakes defensively and take our chances offensively to give us the best chance of getting more consistency in to our performances. We've got a lot of games coming up with the recent call offs due to the weather, if we can take 3 points today in what will be a difficult game against a strong side in Nelson it will be a massive boost of confidence for us. Thank you for coming out today to support the lads and we hope we can repay you by taking maximum points.
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HISTORY OF ASHTON TOWN a 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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association 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 off, over the years worked behind the
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 scenes painting, digging or mending often Horner made a massive boost to the club without the right resources for the with the long overdue formation of a Junior 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.
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Our motto ...... „Onwards & Upwards‟, sums us up as we now strive for promotion.
HISTORY OF Think of a club that was the first English side to beat Real Madrid away from home. A side that also won away at Old Trafford in the same season. A side that has obtained positive results against six current Barclays Premiership clubs in league games (Manchester United, Crystal Palace, Hull City, Fulham, Southampton and Stoke City). A side that played in the Football League for ten seasons and has played competitive games against 34 current sides in the top four divisions. A side that has played many FA Cup ties in the competition proper with a record home attendance of over 14,000. All this, and more, has been achieved by „The History Boys‟ of Nelson FC, also known as „The Admirals‟. The origins of Nelson FC can be reputedly traced to a group of townspeople who in 1881, on witnessing a local football match between Burnley and Blackburn, were inspired to form their own team. However, it wasn‟t until 1889-90 that they competed in a senior competition, joining the Lancashire League upon its formation. The Blues started well, with a series of top six finishes, and claimed the title in great style in 1895/96, winning 22 of their 30 games and scoring 105 goals. However in 1898-99 the original club was disbanded. Just a few months after their demise, Nelson were reformed and accepted into the North East Lancashire League, later joining the Central League. When football resumed after the First World War, Nelson embarked upon the most remarkable adventure of their history. In 1921 the thirteen nonreserve teams of the Central League were voted into the Football League`s newly formed Third Division North. The first league match, on August 27th 1921, brought a record attendance at Seedhill of 9,000. The next season, 1922-23, saw the Blues lead a close race for much of the season, and five wins in a row during April saw them romp away to the title. One team was promoted from each of the Third Division North and South of the Football League at that time, and it meant Nelson were entering a nationwide league for the very first time. On the back of their title triumph, and in preparation for life in Division Two, Nelson took the remarkable step of an overseas tour to Spain, in May 1923. They performed with some success, winning two of their four games - a 2-1 success against Real Oviedo and a 4-2 victory at Real Madrid. Unfortunately Nelson‟s time in Division Two was to be short-lived, lasting just the one season in which they finished second-bottom of the table. It was clear early on that they were struggling both on and off the pitch, but they achieved some remarkable feats on the way. They had a home victory over champions-elect Leeds United, one of
only nine league defeats for the Yorkshire side. And their first away victory came at Manchester United. Few non-league clubs can claim to have won away at both Real Madrid and Manchester United! A return to Division Three North brought a drop in attendances, though big games saw new records established, such as 13,500 for the visit of table-topping Darlington. That first season back in the third tier of the Football League saw a second-place finish to the NorthEastern side, hence no promotion, and was to be the last time the Blues seriously threatened a return to the national stage. The next season brought a new and never beaten record attendance at Seedhill of 14,143 for the visit of leaders Bradford Park Avenue. The home team went two goals down but came back to draw 2-2. Two seasons later Nelson became serious strugglers, finding themselves £6,500 in debt. A rock-bottom finish meant a re-election application. They had conceded 136 goals during the season, and all the problems seemed to be down to insufficient gate receipts during difficult times for the area. Reelection was granted in 1928, but three seasons later Nelson were back in the same situation, and 1930-31 was to be their final season as a League club. Nelson struggled on in the Lancashire Combination without winning any honours, and things became much bleaker in 1936. A big loss was incurred that season and the club disbanded on 7th August. Following the war, Nelson returned to action and to the Lancashire Combination. They were involved in some terrific tussles for the title with Wigan Athletic over the next few seasons, winning it twice in 1949/50 and 1951/52. In those three seasons of 42 league games apiece, Nelson scored 125, 120 and 139 goals respectively. The first title season also saw Nelson clinch the Lancashire Combination Cup to seal an historic Double in what was at the time one of the premier leagues in the country outside of the Football League. The men at the forefront of this period of success were two young player-managers. Centre-half Bob Johnson moved from Burnley for the start of the 1949/50 season and, when his contract expired, the Blues landed a young man from Manchester City, 30-year-old Joe Fagan. The team built by „Uncle Joe‟ romped to the title in his first season in 1951/52. Joe left to join Liverpool`s boot room team in 1958 and 25 years later he was the manager who took the Reds to a European Cup, League Championship and League Cup treble. As Fagan was beginning his long association with the Merseysiders, Nelson‟s fortunes were to move, quite markedly, in the opposite direction. A third Combination Cup arrived in 1959/60, but a second
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F NELSON FC place finish in 1960/61 was to be the nearest they came to winning the Combination title again. A third place was collected in the final season of that League in 1981/82 - which by this time had lost much of its former quality and status - before the restructuring of the non-league pyramid. Nelson joined the Third Division of the newly created North West Counties League - an amalgamation of the Lancashire Combination and Cheshire County League - in 1982. During that era, Nelson also moved out of their old Seedhill ground, and it was sadly demolished to make way for the M65 motorway, although subsequently the route was tweaked and most of the original site is still intact, minus of course the stands and buildings. The club were transferred into the Second Division of the North West Counties League when the Third Division was dropped six seasons later. However, after one more season, the club`s new ground was deemed not to be up to league standard, and the team were forced to play in the Second Division of the West Lancashire League for four seasons. It was a tough period for the Blues, and they finished no higher than 15th in that time. After much hard work, the new ground at Victoria Park - known by the locals as „Little Wembley‟ - was brought up to scratch, and the club were re-admitted to the North West Counties League. In the years that followed, Nelson usually finished in the top half of the lower Division. A cruel end to the 2000/2001 season saw Nelson finish above Atherton LR in the third and final promotion place on the final day of the season, only to see the latter granted a replay of their final game as their opponents had fielded an ineligible player. Atherton won the replayed game to snatch away third spot from the Blues. Former Blackburn Rovers coach David Hall took over the manager`s role at the start of the 2004/05 season, and set about rebuilding a fresh young team. Hall was to leave after a poor start to the following season, but his assistant Graham Howarth took over and oversaw an incredible late run which propelled the Blues to a third place finish, bringing with it a first promotion for the club in 83 years. The club fought off relegation threats and maintained a place in the Premier Division for four seasons before administrative troubles forced the club to resign from the NWCFL in the summer of 2010. After a year out to regroup, Nelson rejoined the First Division under new ownership. With a mixed board containing English and Asian board members that reflect the diversity within the town in the modern era, the club now aims to build a strong multi-cultural community club that acts as a bridge between diverse sections of
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the community uniting everyone under the common banner of football and providing a pathway into senior non-league football for any local players good enough, regardless of their race or religion or background. Longer term the club want to reestablish themselves as the leading non-league club in the region and eventually regain the Football League place they lost in 1931. The first season back was a transitional one as the new owners learnt about life running a senior football team and a 15th place finish was achieved. The 2012/13 season started with a new young management team of Robert Grimes and Michael Morrison and things started well with The Admirals racing to the top of the table. However cracks soon started to appear and a couple of months in the management team departed along with most of the squad. Nelson limped along for a few weeks taking some heavy defeats due to fielding what was effectively the clubs reserve team before manager Mark Fell arrived. He immediately brought stability to the club and an upturn in fortunes along with a host of new signings. Through his contacts he also established a permanent training ground and base for the club at Accrington & Rossendale College meaning the club now boasts exactly the same training facilities as League Two neighbours Accrington Stanley. On the pitch the side recovered to a mid table 10th position. Fell's first full season brought long awaited success back to the town, a first league title in 62 years. Fell's Nelson were outstanding, scoring a remarkable 157 goals in 45 games and winning the NWCFL division 1 by 5 clear points. Nelson's Peter Wright became the league‟s top scorer with 38 goals. 2014/15 saw the Admirals return to the NWCFL Premier Division with The Blues managing to finish a respectable 11th place, the club‟s highest position in over 30 years. Last season ,despite a bright start, a run of 7 defeats in 9 games saw Mark Fell decide to step down as Manager and replaced by ex Nelson Striker Paul Fildes who guided Nelson to 16th by the end of the season. Just before preseason Fildes was offered the Manager position at Ramsbottom Utd and left Nelson looking for a new manager. Ahead of the 2016/17 season ex Burnley player Phil Eastwood was appointed Manager however after only 1 win in the first 10 league games Eastwood stood down in October. The Admirals decided to promote Youth Team manager Alex Norwood to First Team Manager as the club look to avoid relegation from the Premier Division. Unfortunately relegation was confirmed and now the club are looking to bounce back and fight at the top end of Division One.
Who’s played at edge green st Christopher Edmund Kirkland was born on 2nd May 1981, he is an English football coach and former professional goalkeeper who is now the head goalkeeping coach at Colne. As a player, he made 321 league and cup appearances in an 18-year professional career from 1998 to 2016 winning one cap for the English national team in 2006. Kirkland started his career at Coventry City, where he was regarded as one of the country's most promising young goalkeepers. He was later signed by Premier League club Liverpool for £6 million in August 2001. However, his time at the club was blighted by recurring injuries, which almost caused him to retire from football altogether. He later signed for Wigan Athletic in July 2006, after a successful loan period, and he had further loan spells at both Leicester City and Doncaster Rovers before being signed by Sheffield Wednesday in May 2012. He joined Preston North End in August 2015 and had a brief spell with Bury before retiring in August 2016. A year after retirement from playing, Kirkland took up coaching with Port Vale in January 2017. In July 2018, Kirkland returned to
Liverpool as a goalkeeping coach for the women's team. He was appointed caretaker manager of the team on 14 September upon the resignation of Neil Redfearn. Following Vicky Jepson's appointment as permanent manager on 26 October, he returned to his previous role as goalkeeping coach and took on the additional duty as assistant manager, however he quit the role in March 2019 to focus on the growing demands of running his own goalkeeping academy and in June 2020 he was appointed as head goalkeeping coach at Colne in the Northern Premier League. Kirkland appeared here at Edge Green Street in May 2015 when he played as centre half for the Latics Legends team in the inaugural „Josephs Goal„ Charity fund raising game against a team of Hollyoaks soap stars, a game which was emphatically won by the Latics team by a score of 10-0 with a crowd of 2000 cramming into Edge Green Street on the day.
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By Gordon Johnson 1.Brighton & Hove Albion drew 16 of their 40 Premier League matches played in 2021. 2.Peter Shilton (125), Wayne Rooney (120), David Beckham (115), Steven Gerrard (114), Bobby Moore (108), Ashley Cole (107), Bobby Charlton (106), Frank Lampard (106) and Billy Wright (105). 3.Five Clubs: Millwall, Luton Town, Preston North End, Bristol City and Peterborough United. 4.Daniel James (Leeds United), Tyler Roberts (Leeds United), Neco Williams (Liverpool) and Ben Davies (Tottenham Hotspur). 5.Christian Benteke, Simon Mignolet and Divock Origi. 6.Jason Wilcox (2000), Rio Ferdinand (2001), Alan Smith (2001), Danny Mills (2001), Robbie Fowler (2002), Lee Bowyer (2002), Paul Robinson (2003), Kalvin Phillips (2020) and Patrick Bamford (2021). 7.Thirteen Times: Sevilla (6), Atlético Madrid (3), Real Madrid (2), Valencia and Villarreal. 8.Sergio Aguero (Manchester City), Andy Carroll (West Ham United), Peter Crouch (Liverpool), Roberto Firmino (Liverpool), Robbie Fowler (2, Liverpool), Micky Quinn (Coventry City), Wayne Rooney (Manchester United) and Dwight Yorke (Manchester United). 9.Harry Kane (12 England), Memphis Depay (12 Netherlands), Eran Zahavi (8 Israel), Aleksandar Mitrović (8 Serbia), Teemu Pukki (6 Finland), Antoine Griezmann (6 France), Munas Dabbur (6 Israel), Robert Lewandowski (6 Poland) and Cristano Ronaldo (6 Portugal). 10.İlkay Gündoğan (Manchester City), Kai Havertz (Chelsea), Antonio Rüdiger (Chelsea), Timo Werner (Chelsea), Pascal Groß (Brighton & Hove Albion) and Vitaly Janelt (Brentford).
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Which Club drew the most Premier League matches in 2021? Which nine players have won 100 or more caps for England? How many of the 24 current 2021-22 Championship Clubs have never played in the Premier League? Who are the four Welshmen with Premier League Goals or Assists this season? Who are the three Belgians with Premier League Appearances for Liverpool FC? Who were the last nine Leeds United players to win England Caps? How many times have Spanish Clubs won the UEFA Cup or Europa League? Which eight players have scored Premier League Hat-Tricks against Arsenal FC? Which nine players scored 6 or more Goals in FIFA World Cup 2022 European Qualification? Who are the six Germans with Premier League Goals or Assists this season?
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FOOTBALL BOOK REVIEW For those seeking some understanding of how England's Football Team and English football have stumbled since its triumph in 1966 will after reading this book be well informed. The book is well constructed and features a series of thematic chapters which both tell the story and suggest how English football could do better. Henry Winter is an England enthusiast and journalist. He has attended and reported on over 250 England matches. For the book he interviews England managers past and present excepting Gareth Southgate. The book was published before Gareth got into his stride and recent events will be worth a chapter or two in an updated edition. Past leading players are interviewed as well. What is clear is that English football is a slow learning environment. Mistakes and bad practice are admitted but the process of learning from them often for structural reasons is faulty if non-existent. Past player and manager opinions are not sought nor
are listened to that much in by English football as a whole. It is said that those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. This has to the case here regarding English football. Our island mentality plus our collective hubris since we after all invented the game has made us collectively very insular in some odd ways preventing us from adapting and learning as the game has evolved internationally. The only disappointment was the chapter featuring the author's thoughts or blue print for change. Not because it lacks ideas. Some of which were very good but because it was so perfunctory. A longer chapter which more fully explained the author's thinking would have made an already good book into a great one. Overall, it is good book for anyone interested in the subject and why the English are the way we are.
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On this day 26th FEB needed the toilet so drove on the hard shoulder to get past a traffic jam. He had been too embarrassed to explain to the police the reason at the time so explaining to the Court, and the world, what the two options were on that day, must have been a tad difficult. He was let off!
26th February 1999 On February 26th 1999 Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson was caught by police driving his BMW on the hard shoulder 26th February 2010 of the M602 near Manchester. Wrong but
With debts of around £70m Portsmouth
not particularly newsworthy, well not
became the first Premier League club to
particularly newsworthy until the matter
enter administration and so later suffered a
went to court in October and Sir Alex gave
9 point deduction. Pompey played in the
his defence! He said that he was rushing to
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get to a toilet! Bury Magistrates Court was
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told that he was suffering from acute
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gastroenteritis and severe diarrhoea and
problems by 2013 they were in League 2.
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Recent transfer news The management team of Lee Bignell and Michael Smith have been busy as of late with a host of new signings to bolster the squad with some much needed stability and strength to see us secure more victories before the season is over. Deklan Hill Centre Midfield transferred to us from Nabil Rahim. Nabil joins us from Prescot Pilkington FC. Cables, having spent time in the academies (Pictured left) of Wigan Athletic & Cruzeiro Esporte Clube Nabil is an attacking player and can George Wyatt play anywhere in the front 3. (pic above) - Centre Back Aidan Marshall King - Attacker Both George and Aiden are joining us on loan from Ramsbottom Utd Francis Turkington - Centre Mid & Right Back joins from Vauxhall Motors. Francis has previously played for Marine U23s and Southport U21s. (pictured right)
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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
of the Year” and Joseph switched on the Christmas 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, 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.
television stars over the years including Pep Guardiola, Harry Redknapp and Joe Calzaghe. In 2013, Joe was the mascot for Wigan Athletic in the FA Cup Final and was carried out onto the pitch at Wembley by skipper, and charity ambassador Emmerson Boyce, which led to television appearances on BBC North West, ITV, Granada and Sky News. Many Latics fans believe that Joe was a lucky charm as Wigan defied the odds to beat Manchester City 1-0 and claim their first major trophy in 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 Joseph's Goal is a registered charity in opportunity to be a mascot. In England and Wales 2014, Joseph‟s family were the WISH FM “Local Heroes Family Charity number: 1151548
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