THE nwcfl 1st division cup 2nd round
ASHTON TOWN AFC V south liverpool Fc SATURDAY 9th april 2022 - 3PM
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 President - Stephen Barrett Secretary - Stefan Ochwat Treasurer - Peter Williams Committee Members - Joanne Round, Joanne Bourne, Chris Wright, Mark Wright, Mark Lomax Catering Manager - Denise Brady Commercial Manager - Mark Cowley Programme Editor / Advertising - Ian Pomfrett Welfare Officer - Peter Lanes 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 Football league cup 2nd round tie against South Liverpool FC.
Usually you wouldn’t celebrate so hard but this season has been lets say a difficult one. Tuesday night away at Holker Old Boys FC was a tough game in even tougher It has been a week of ups and downs for the conditions and everyone gave it their all, very unfortunate to lose on penalties. lads in the last seven days. We have had quite a turnover of managers, players and volunteers in recent times. Most notably our Chairman, Vice Chairman and long standing Clubhouse Manager Clare, they will all be missed at the club I can only hope who and what we have now can be built upon giving us a real push for, and a realistic chance of promotion in the not so distant future.
Last Saturday was an awesome end to the league fixtures, Alex Noonan with our first Hope you enjoy the game and the hospitality, have a safe journey home, and a 92nd minute winner from Leon Wright secured our place in the league next season. Ian Pomfrett - Programme Editor
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Notes from the first team MANAGEment Good afternoon
and we have picked up some good results as
Well the league season finished in
the form guide shows we are unbeaten in
dramatic style last week and we hope you our last 5 games and am hoping we can continue that good form today. It’s been a all enjoyed it. difficult few months since we come in. There has been lots of changes on and off the pitch and we have done our best in the circumstances, I can’t thank the lads enough for not giving up and fighting for each other right to the end. I am asking them for another big push today and am confident they will give their all.
Obviously we would have all preferred it to have been an easier and less stressful day but we are Ashton Town it’s never plain sailing plus where is the fun it that. There wasn’t much time to celebrate as we had a tough away trip to Holker Tuesday night in the Macron cup. Unfortunately we fell short and lost on pens after a really good game which finished 2-2. It’s the league cup
The support we have had from you guys
Today and it will be another tough game.
home and away has been amazing and you
South are a good side and know how to get
really have helped us get some important
results away from home as we found out in
results so let’s all have one big push today
our league meetings earlier in the year. The an get the right result. lads have been brilliant these last couple of Thanks for the continued support months we have had a lot of travelling to do Biggs
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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 sout Although the name of South Liverpool FC first came about in the late 19th century the clubs that bore that name until 1921 had no connection with the current club although enjoying good success before the First World War.
The current club was founded in April 1935 to respond to the increasing South end population and began playing in the 1935/36 season in the Lancashire Combination at Holly Park. Success was immediate and by the outbreak of the Second World War the Lancashire
Combination had been won three times in succession as had the Lancashire Challenge Trophy and most impressively South defeated Cardiff City 2-1 in the Welsh Cup final at Wrexham in 1939.
The resumption of football after the war saw South in the Cheshire League but it was never to bear the success of the pre war years. South went back to the Lancashire Combination in 1952. The mid sixties saw success under manager Alan Hampson sufficient to qualify by right for the Northern Premier League. South would always struggle against wealthier, well supported clubs at this standard. In 1983/84 South enjoyed their best post war season under first John King & George Rooney then Brian Griffiths as they annexed the NPL League Cup, the Lancashire Challenge Trophy and the Liverpool Senior Cup. South’s success was not built upon
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th Liverpool FC in 2015, retained in 2016 when two cups were added, making it a triple winning season. 2019 saw South’s home ground move 200 yards to the Jericho Hub where the stadium pitch has been fitted with floodlights, cover and stand. After the cancellation of the 2019/20 season South stepped up and took the league title in 2021, achieving promotion to the North West Counties League for 2021/22, thirty years after our semi pro status had been and while two more Liverpool Senior Cup lost. South’s reserves will continue to play wins followed along with the NPL Presidents in division two of the West Cheshire League. Cup, Holly Park was lost in 1989 and the The club boast a third adult team and four limited company was liquidated in 1991. Vets sides. Our senior youth team (Under Holly Park was later converted to the 18) operate in the West Cheshire League impressive Liverpool South Parkway station. Youth Division. The club’s youth set up has South supporters had already formed a teams in the Liverpool Premier Junior committee to take over the football club Leagues, Belle Vale Junior and Merseyside & and in 1992 were in the Liverpool County Halewood, making the club one of the Combination. A nomadic home was then biggest in the City. South’s main issue but at the dawn of the South boast a number of well-known ex Millennium secured its home at the North Field, Jericho Lane, Otterspool. South were players including Jimmy Case and John consistent top half finishers in the Liverpool Aldridge who both started their careers at Combination / Liverpool County FA Premier South. Manager Martin Ryman has been at the helm of the club since 2001 and is League and won the George Mahon Cup at South’s longest ever serving manager and Goodison Park in May 2009. In 2011 South also played for South between 1992 and took the decision to switch to the West Cheshire League and immediately won two 2000. His assistant is Stephen Ward who consecutive divisional titles to be in the top made 427 first team appearances in goal for division in 2014. The First Division was won South, a club record along with coach David Cringle.
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