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FAREWELL OUR ‘MR BOOTLE’!

BOOTLE are mourning the death of club president Frank Doran Senior – one of the longest- serving officials in Non-League football – at the age of 84.
Frank, a docker, played for the Langton FC team which in 1954 evolved into the present North West Counties Premier Division club.
There, over 66 years, he served as player, manager, secretary, chairman, groundsman and latterly president of the club.
Announcing his passing on Wednesday, a club statement said: “Anyone involved with football both locally and across the north-west will know Frank, or ‘Mr Bootle’, as h...

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