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Tony Incenzo: John Dennett’s tribute is just Ton-derful

One of my highlights during the past season was visiting Ashville FC on the day of their 75th anniversary celebrations where 100-year-old club founder John Dennett delivered an emotional speech.
MARKED IN HISTORY: Centurion John Dennett pictured outside his impressive mural

By Tony Incenzo

One of my highlights during the past season was visiting Ashville FC on the day of their 75th anniversary celebrations where 100-year-old club founder John Dennett delivered an emotional speech.
Dennett originally launched Ashville with his wife Joyce in 1949 as a junior football outfit.
The team’s name was adopted from the street they lived on back then – Ashville Road in Wallasey – and the aim was to give local boys somewhere to play.
Nowadays, Ashville possess 23 teams of all ages.
Mural
Filling their club president duties, Dennett must surely be the oldest serving offic...

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