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The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: Jake Ash – our jack in the box prankster Yettsy gave us all a surprise!

From the Devon League to Wembley – Jake Ash didn’t dare dream of the career he went on to have when he first turned up at Budleigh Salterton.

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
8 June 2025

ECSTASY: Truro City’s Jake Ash holds the FA Vase aloft PICTURE: Martin Dalton

By Matt Badcock

From The Devon League to Wembley – Jake Ash didn’t dare dream of the career he went on to have when he first turned up at Budleigh Salterton.
But it was the beginning of a journey that took him, via Falmouth Town, to become a key cog in Truro City’s rapid rise up the Pyramid.
Now manager of Mousehole, who he has taken from Step 6 to Step 4, the respected former defender looks back at his early days.
The success Truro had and the time a team-mate made a surprise entrance!
First Club
A local club to me, Budleigh Salterton.
It was the Devon League at the time and I must have ...

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