Absolutely horrified to read this. I have kept quite a big secret, but it's time to open up following the death of this poor man, purely down to the actions of one of the worlds biggest supermarket chains. I have a story to tell. Please share away x
Well that didnt half take some coming round.., literally spent an hour in & out of nearly fainting at the end.. I used the reserve tank & more..
Final finishing position was 42,022 out of 57,000 & I literally started in 57,000th.
Never. Ever. Give. Up. 😉💪👊
#GreatNorthRun
MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT !!!! 📝
Sam Morsy will not only be at Ashton Town to support Sunday’s Joseph's Goal Legends game, he’s been given permission to PLAY for
#wafc
one more time !
Huge thanks to Neil Warnock &
@Boro
for letting this happen 💙
Tickets ! 👇
Thank you so so much to every single Wigan fan,Oxford fan, Ashton fan & of course Michael who travelled from Atlanta USA to to end up in Ashvegas on a cold n wet Saturday.
Your support was truly magnificent & 100% it helped us get the win. Thank you💙
@LaticsOfficial
#wafc
#OUFC
New job day. Surrounded by 30 acres of sports. Time to combine all things food, drink, entertainment, and sports, and lots of it.
Let the good times begin as General Manager of Ruskin Sports Village ⚽️🏉🏏🥎🏆
#community
#makingadifference
An absolute pleasure to host a party for the new World Number One tonight at Ruskin
@Michael180Smith
🎯
What an amazing achievement ... & how heavy is that trophy 😅💪
#darts
#worldchampion
Everything wrong in the professional game in one tweet 🤯
Shocking
@SkyBetLeagueOne
. A club has been absolutely ripped to bits & had its heart ripped out within them 7mths ya rats !
How we are in this situation STILL with no answer or movement is simply criminal
#wafc
#latics
Off to pick up Pascal to take him to Atherton for a game..., in my £600 car off ebay that has broken down 5 times since Christmas.. This could potentially be a chapter in a book on its own 🚗💨😂😂
#nonleague
#UpTheTown
#wafc
#latics
📢📢 PLEASE RT
Lining up to play alongside The Duke, Roy Carroll, Michael Brown, Neil Roberts... to take on Arouna Kone, Gomez, Scharner, Boyce, Figueroa, Maloney, McManaman, Watson, Caldwell...
it's ANTONIO VALENCIA !!!!
Buy your tickets NOW 🙏
#wafc
#latics
#mufc
#May14
14 Seasons, 9 Managers, over 500 league games, over 800 first team fixtures, tomorrow is my last league game with
@ashtontownafc
The roller coaster comes to an end with one last huge ride. A must win game v
@AthertonLRFC
My nerves are already shot 😐
#wafc
#latics
#UpTheTown
DEAL DONE 🖊
This game on Sunday is organised by a lifelong fan & a charity set on your wildest dreams to make us all smile despite a cloud over our beloved club.
This is about fans, club employees, & a 14 year old boy & hope to find a cure 💙
#wafc
#latics
#WeNeedYou
🎟
In the summer of 1995 I was heavily influenced in my life when 3 Spanish players signed for my club Wigan Athletic. Some 29 years later I can very proudly announce that I have agreed a partnership with La Liga side Athletic Club Bilbao to work for, & alongside their fantastic
Hard to put into words this pic. The guy whom I proudly told my mum as a giddy 17yo that he said he is going to take my beloved
#wafc
to the Premier League & I believed from day one!
His belief gave me the passion to do what I do at Ashton Town. He made my dreams come true 🔵⚪
I am going to be v controversial here but it's not right that we are all putting the weight on the shoulders of an 83 year old man who gave us our biggest dreams and left our club debt free with amazing memories. The
@FA
have screwed us here & they need to be accountable
#wafc
Football is about believing & achieving. Pilkington FC have won the league & go into their next chapter as Champions 🏆
Thank you so, so much to all those whom join my journey, & of course those already at Pilks who helped make this happen.
#GreenArmy
#TrustTheProcess
🟢
"I'm excited to put my boots back on. Mark is a great guy with an amazing heart. He has done so much for Joseph Goal without the full recognition within football.
I asked if anything I could do for him. He said would I play for his team. He had a shock when I said yes🔴⚪
#wafc
Things you love to see. Yes the goal. Yes the flair. Yes the sold out away ends., but also 10/10 for the best ever named stand 🍨 What a sight of beauty lol
#wafc
#latics
If ever a script was going to be written in your last league game after 14 years then it's a last minute winner to stay up ❤
Thank you so, so much to all whom attended today, as always your support has always meant the world to me ⚽️
Get in 💪
#ProudToBeTown
#wafc
#latics
Roberto talks about the impossible dream., about dreaming & believing. From a small idea at a non league ground, to the biggest stage. Wigan Athletic are a very, very special club, & once it touches your heart you never let go.
Enjoy the day folks 💙
#wafc
#latics
Its taken some time to catch up on all things legends & this is one picture that will I will be forever proud of.
To see this great man smile through your own efforts is a very proud moment.
We all have dreams & I am very proud to have lived mine yesterday.
#wafc
#latics
Humbled to be invited by the Mayor today & presented a Mayor's Award for my efforts within St Helens. This week is my last in hospitality & to be recognised for my efforts is an honour.
Huge thanks to all whom have joined me on my ride ❤️
#sthelens
#togetherness
#community
Wow. Wow. Wow. Huge, huge thanks to all whom played, helped, & supported. This one took some pulling off but we smashed it 💪
Thank you so, so much everyone, you mean the world to me whom help, & I am very proud & humbled to have your support ❤
#daretodream
#wafc
#mufc
HERE IT IS !! 🔥🔥
The official
@JosephsGoal
Latics Legends kit all ready for the big game on Sunday 👌
Huge, huge thanks to
@ashtontownafc
sponsors Profiles Scaffolding Ltd for sponsoring and allowing this to happen 👏👏👌
Tickets👇
#wafc
#latics
Some picture this 💙
My lad on my knee watching our beloved Wigan Athletic early 00's
Then pictured some 23 or so years later in the San Mamés after me agreeing to work with Athletic Club Bilbao, proudly joined by my son with him wearing one of my old Latics tops. Priceless👌
Well thats our 6th
@JosephsGoal
Latics Legends game been and done... As always its a pleasure to see the big man Joseph himself.
Huge thanks to everyone whom helps make these events possible & special thanks to
@lisanandy
&
@sammorsy08
for their attendance 👏👏👌
#wafc
#latics
Moving house means opening boxes that haven't been open for a while.. Some memories here, but more importantly some objects of absolute beauty 💙
That Roma kit though👌
#wafc
#latics
@PKendrickWIG
I am absolutely delighted to be back in football. The break was short & sweet but I am honoured to be appointed at such a brilliant historic club.
Pilks has an absolutely amazing set up, one that beats some pro clubs. I cant wait to get going.
#greenarmy
#sthelens
Since 2006
@jimmywoodyer7
has been our chairman, he had made the decision to step down from this role.
Our new chairman
@northernpromise
who brings vast experience, knowledge & very ambitious plans.
Our full statement is on Facebok including more changes.
#GreenArmy
Wow !! What a game!! Absolutely outstanding !! ⚽️
Thank you so, so much for the amazing turnout. From those whom volunteered, played, helped and supported., thank you from the bottom of my heart. Wigan Athletic is a very, very special club 💙
#wafc
#latics
SAVE THE DATE 👇
SATURDAY MAY 4TH 💙
The Joseph's Goal Latics Legends are back at the DW !!
The BIGGEST yet. New players flying in. Family Fan Park with Latics Community Trust. Match tickets, Hospitality, & Afterparty info out VERY soon 💥
#wafc
#latics
#biggeragain
Absolutely delighted to be appointed Business & Operations Manager of SMS International & Pro Soccer Experience.
Huge thanks to Jonny for the opportunity which will initially heavily involve links in USA & China & then of course the rest of the world 🌎
#NewBeginnings
Wigan Athletic is the biggest emotional roller coaster ever, but a ride that I would never change..
It was an honour to be around those at the club for the JG Legends game & I can only imagine their fears & emotions.
Thank you Mr Danson & all that helped save our club 💙
#wafc
Another flying in for a JG debut .. ✈💨 🇨🇮
It's AROUNA KONE !!
Maloney ✔
Watson ✔
McManaman ✔
Martinez ✔
Scharner ✔
Caldwell ✔
Gomez ✔
The band is getting back together 🕺
SAVE. THAT. DATE.
May 14. Biggest yet.
#wafc
#Latics
💙
So proud to be nominated &attend the Pride of StHelens Awards last night. An amazing evening. Its been some journey at The Gerard& I will forever promote togetherness& inclusion.
Runner up award on the night,but some awards you don't have to win. To be in the mix was my honour.
Let's do this !! SAVE THE DATE !!
The
@JosephsGoal
#Latics
Legends have not played since beating Bryan Robson & his Man United side in 2019 due to all things covid. Lets get the most anticipated
#wafc
fixture booked in !
SUNDAY 1st AUGUST at
@ashtontownafc
🗓
@Talalalhammad32
Had the absolute pleasure of
@ScottSmith_6
&
@mrjhjackson
at my boozer today & had a great catch up with both. Scott is kindly hand delivering his JG shirt & was still beaming from last night's start, & an absolute honour just to talk all things
#latics
with Jonathon 💙
#wafc
Thank you so much to every single person who turned up to watch and support us today. It means a hell of a lot to get that support of the twelfth man. 304 supporters in this crazy world at the moment is outstanding.
Thank you 🔴⚪
#UpTheTown
#UpTheTics
#wafc
#latics
#nonleague
There are great escapes and then there is this !! 💥
Absolutely phenomenal. Written off and left to literally die. To everyone whom have helped achieve this, Thank you. Simply, thank you.
Never. Give. Up.
#UpTheTics
#wafc
#latics
One of the great honours of hosting the legends games is being able to thank those whom mean a lot. As much as I am Town Chairman
#latics
is my first love. To be able to thank Roberto personally for the FA Cup at my club meant alot., so did today with Leam for everything💙
#wafc
Huge 12th Happy Birthday wishes to this big man, Joseph Kendrick 🎂
I am extremely proud to be a trustee for his charity
@JosephsGoal
& help lead the hope for a cure for NKH.
A very inspirational young man whom has helped inspire
@LaticsOfficial
for years 💙🤍
#wafc
#latics
Calling all
@LaticsOfficial
fans !!
FREE ENTRY to
@ashtontownafc
today upon showing your Season Ticket or Matchday Ticket 🎟 !!
Come and get your football fix for free as we take on form side Cleator Moor Celtic 3pm ko⚽️
Your support would be hugely appreciated
#wafc
#latics
❌ Postponed | Latics v Oxford United
Due to a number of positive COVID-19 tests in the Oxford United camp, today's match has been postponed following consultation with the EFL.
#wafc
🔵⚪️
#BELIEVE
SUNDAY MAY 14th 🖋
The
@JosephsGoal
Latics Legends are heading to .....
THE DW STADIUM !!
… THEEE biggest EVER legends game !!
You do NOT want to miss this one!
Absolutely honoured to take it to the big stage. Let's do this 💙
SAVE THE DATE
#wafc
#latics
Honoured & privileged to be part of the
#Believe
campaign at my club. Wigan Athletic helped build me as a young man & teach me every emotion.
#wafc
is a huge part of my life & always will be. There is football fairytales & then there is Wigan Athletic.
Proud day today 🔵⚪
Things you love to see 💙🤍
For the record I am still blocked by the Blackburn Rovers official Twitter account from the time I offered their supporters free season tickets at
@ashtontownafc
for when they had Owen Coyle as Manager 😂😂😂
#wafc
#latics
Wigan Athletic are now unbeaten in their last 14 matches under club legend Leam Richardson.
In August, they dumped rivals Bolton Wanderers out of the EFL Cup.
In January, they've dumped rivals Blackburn Rovers out of the FA Cup.
#wafc
2022/23 will be a season that I will remember for life. I needed to test myself & see my influence at a club who could match my ambition, & Pilks did just that.
Sadly though that season for me is my only one.
Huge thanks & good luck to all at
@Pilkingtonfc
💚
#GreenArmy
There is one thing pulling off a
#mufc
legends game, but it turns slightly magical when you get the backing & support from the big man himself..
Saturday is NOT to be missed & strongly advised to buy tickets in advance via The DW 🎟🎟
#daretodream
#mufc
#wafc
#latics
#united
This is genuinely ridiculous. I am not having it that
@officiallydale
could not field a side against a team in the 10th tier of English football. Draws like this is what the small clubs thrive on. To test ourselves against the bigger clubs. Bigger maybe, but far from better 😡
🚨BREAKING NEWS 🚨
Rochdale FC have pulled out of playing us in the Lancashire Challenge Trophy 2nd Round tmrw night.
We are obviously extremely disappointed for both players & fans & of course would rather beat them over the 90 minutes than progress this way..
#UpTheStripes
I am absolutely delighted to announce the appointment of Lee Bignell as Ashton Town Manager.
When Biggs left us I promised him that I would call when the time is right. The time is right. 100% this is to work alongside Adam James whom has been outstanding for us.
#UpTheTown
My team didnt play today due to its 12th postponement. My top goalscorer made his debut for his new club. My lifelong team got dicked again. Flick over TV channels & Teddy Sherringham is dressed as a tree & singing Will feckin Young.
Some days I f
@cking
hate football.
#wafc
Absolutely buzzing with the work going on at the club when visited today. The effort of work going in by the groundstaff, finally eradicating the pitch drainage problems, and the Manager & his changing room project is another level. Very proud to lead this club.
#UpTheTown
The first
@LaticsOfficial
Legend to land from overseas for the big game this coming Saturday & without doubt one of our biggest !! ARJAN DE ZEEUW 💙 !!
If he tells you to buy a ticket then you do !!
Arry leading out the Wigan JG Legends at the DW can not be missed & guarantees
@rioferdy5
There is still a shirt for you to wear
@rioferdy5
., Bryan Robson is playing but wont last. Vice Captain needed and it would be an absolute honour to have you down Rio. All for charity. Hotel can be provided. May 25th. 🙏
"Kilford, to Perkins, Perkins to Valencia, Valencia beats every man and lays off to Neil Roberts who squares it to The Duke.., the Dukes shot is saved and the ball falls to WILL GRIGG !!!! " 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Back in a Latics shirt…for one day only… SIR WILLIAM GRIGG ‼️
#wafc
#latics
Well that's the last pint pulled in hospitality, & on some journey..
Thank you so much to everyone that has helped & supported me in each & every community. Some lifelong friends have been made in them all ❤️
Onwards now to a full time job in football, starting tomorrow ⚽️
Huge thanks & good luck to
@OfficialBuryAFC
going forward. Not the result we had hoped for but we wasn't far off at all 🔴⚪
Proudly tonight was about us getting over 1000 through our gate & magnificently managing that through 100% volunteers. Magic ❤
#UpTheTown
#nonleague
This is probably the hardest thing I have posted ever as the club means the world to me & I have given it my absolute all, but at the end of May I will be stepping down as the Chairman.
I have done 14 seasons but its time for me to move on & move onto another challenge 🔴⚪
All good things sadly come to an end.
February is my last month at The Gerard. Its time to move on, but I truely hope that you have enjoyed the ride. I certainly have.
Mark x
I honestly couldn't be a more prouder Chairman tonight. Not everything is going our way at the mo, but to get lads to travel a round trip of 160+ miles on a Tuesday night. Take time off work etc, to then put in a 90 min shift in top gear 👏👏.. Thank you👌
15 to go.
#UpTheTown
FT
@CMCelticFC
0
@ashtontownafc
3
3 points. 3 goals. 3 debutants. 3 hours travel each way. 14 lads all juggling work and commitments, F
@cking
priceless.
Goals from Alex McMillan & Jesse Dowling in the first., Jack Richards in the second.
#UpTheTown
There's not a better salesman to try and turn the world to Wigan Athletic.
The dream from a young boy was to one day wear the club badge. I will work for and help promote many clubs, but there's only one that I will ever call home 💙
#wafc
#latics
SMS Pro Soccer are absolutely delighted to announce a partnership with EFL side Wigan Athletic.
@LaticsCommunity
will host teams from all over the world through SMS Pro Soccer. Latics will also host Talent ID camps in countries like USA & Dubai.
#SMSProSoccer
#Bespoke
#Tours
Sooo, we have an announcement.. & a twist😁
This years
@JosephsGoal
#Latics
Legends game will not be v the Dutch ...however that means DE ZEEUW will be putting on a
#wafc
shirt again in May !!
...a side with Arry & Boycey in the same defence 😮, ..but who against 🤔
#UpTheTics
Absolutely delighted to join
@fcsthelens
as Sporting Director., a fantastically ran club and I can't wait to get going.
Founded in only 2014 they have come so far..., time to add a fair few more pages to the history books.. Let the fun begin 🔴⚪️
#UpTheStripes
#TrustTheProcess
FC APPOINT FORMER ASHTON TOWN & PILKINGTON FC CHAIRMAN MARK HAYES AS SPORTING DIRECTOR ⚽️
Mark, who won the North West Counties North with Pilkington FC last season, steps in immediately to help oversee the club, & add value both on & off the field.
#UpTheStripes
#Building
You never lose
@sbunting180
, you either win or you learn., I literally couldn't be prouder.
In the couple of years that I have known you, you have grown in confidence & stature. You stood ten feet tall on that oche.
Very, very proud of you mate 🎯
#TeamBunting
#PDC
#darts
I am honestly speechless. I am man enough to say that I have lost count how many times I have had a tear in my eye from watching the video over and over again, and also from reading everyone's kind comments..
These words mean so much
@EmmersonBoyce
, they really do 💙
#wafc
When Mark Hayes made a joke about me coming and playing for Ashton Town FC.
The look on his face was priceless when I said YES.
In life you come across some real kind hearted people.
Mark is one of them guys who…
We you pass your own boozer and have to double look what your son has hanging out of his bedroom window 😂
Up the St Helens Bahrain Arms Tics🇧🇭 🔵⚪
#wafc
#latics
@Talalalhammad32
He has taught them well has our Leam !! Absolutely outstanding from both of today's sides leaving the dressing rooms absolutely impeccable 👏👏👌
Huge thanks to all things
@LaticsOfficial
for today & every year 💙
#wafc
#latics
Last year I completed my 3rd
#GNR
I ain't designed to run but my mind alongside my heart takes some beating. On that final straight after 13miles not one person overtook me, I did them. Never let anyone tell you that you cant do something.
Good luck everyone on Sunday
#believe
😉
Are you feckin having me on 😡
How about giving that to grassroots and saving the sport we love at the level that needs it. This epitomises everything that is wrong with our country and current life in general. Absolutely disgusting.
#nonleague
3 weeks today I flew these lads in for a huge celebration at a simply amazing football club, and added them to many more whom are touched by our club.
3 weeks later the club is facing its toughest battle yet. Heartbreaking 😪💙
#wafc
#latics
Absolutely magic to be in the away end & to be with my son & his mates today.
What a result, & again, against the odds as always. Fairly emotional to be fair when Maloney came to the away end to receive his standing ovation, you could see how much it meant💙
#UTFT
#wafc
#latics
FC St Helens DOUBLE WINNERS !! 🏆🏆
The Champions of the North beat the Champions of the South 1 v 0.., What a season 💥!!
Very, very proud to be behind the scenes at this club. Huge congrats & thanks to everyone at the club both on & off the pitch 🔴⚪️
#UpTheStripes
#StHelens
Genuinely have never felt so empty from a club that I thought had already taught me every emotion & shown me every kind of chapter... I didn't live my whole life supporting a club, like many, many others, for it to disappear. We must unite in hope, action & support
#wafc
#latics
I honestly think
@LaticsOfficial
is one to it's own, over 100 fans walking to an away game with the Chairman, Chief Exec &FA Cup winning captain.
Thank you so much to all whom has committed to this, especially
@mudhutter
whose immense efforts have put this together
#proudtrustee
Tomorrow I will be walking from Euxton to Fleetwood (32 miles) with 100 other walkers all in aid of
@JosephsGoal
. Donations would be very much appreciated!!! Thank you!
Some player !!
Non league is not easy, you never plan to do more than one club, genuinely, you hope home is home.. Grassroots within 16 years has taken me to 3 clubs, and this lad has immaculately followed the journey. Chris Hill, and your family, enjoy the celebrations. Thank
Paul Cook returns to Wigan today & with the greatest respect. Came under fire as gaffer in the most surreal club circumstances. Gave a Q&A at my boozer to help me raise funds for my footy club & not taken Leam off us as to not unsettle us. An absolute gentleman 🔵⚪
#wafc
#latics