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WARD’S PRIDE AT FITTING TRIBUTE

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
11 June 2017

By Matt Badcock
JOHN WARD has been given a fitting send-off as his 19 years as a member of the Football Association’s Council came to an end.
Hugely-respected throughout football, the former Hampshire FA chairman has reached the mandatory retirement age of 75 and will step down ahead of this summer’s congress meeting.
Ward has dedicated his life to football – starting out by organising friendlies against local village sides as a schoolboy, creating a work side before moving into administration when he was 19 to become the Basingstoke Sunday League’s secretary.
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