Ilkeston Town Warrington Rylands digital matchday programme 29 03 25
There are many different volunteer roles in non-league football and Northern Premier League football clubs need your help with them.
The Trident Leagues and Pitching In’s online Volunteer Hub is the place where you can find opportunities and contact your local football club.
Please visit Pitchinginvolunteers.co.uk to find out more
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STOCKTON TOWN 1 ILKESTON TOWN 0
Hayes 59'
Substitutions
60' Declan Errat-Thompson replaced Jordan Stevens
60' Sam Essien replaced L'Varn Brandy
72' Alex Hardwick replaced Jaden Charles
73' Kornell McDonald replaced Lindon Miekle Cards
95' Declan Errat-Thompson - yellow
The Daniel Wilkinson Foundation is a charity set up in memory of Daniel Wilkinson who died in 2016 aged 24, while playing the game he loved, from an underlying heart condition called Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy (ARVC).
Dan played football from an early age and joined Hull City AFC when he was 10, earning a professional contract aged 18. Loughborough University followed where he completed a degree in Accounting and Financial Management while playing non-league football. He was an athlete who enjoyed the gym and took his health and nutrition very seriously. He lived life to the full and had so much ahead of him.
Other than feeling light-headed on a few occasions in the month before he died, he had no symptoms!
SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH IN THE YOUNG (SCD)
SCD is the leading cause of death in young athletes during sport and the majority of deaths occur with NO SYMPTOMS or family history.
Warning signs may include light-headedness, fainting, palpitations, swollen legs, breathlessness. ARVC can be found in one in every 1,000 to 5,000 young adults - IF IT IS LOOKED FOR.
Every week in the UK, 12 apparently fit and healthy young people (aged 35 and under) die from previously undiagnosed heart conditions.
In Italy, where screening is mandatory for all young people engaged in organised sport, they have reduced the incidence of young sudden cardiac death by 89%.
OUR MISSION
The Daniel Wilkinson Foundation has been set up to raise awareness of SCD and to provide funding towards heart screening, defibrillators and CPR/defibrillator training primarily for grass-roots sporting teams.
Tragedies can be prevented through cardiac screening. It is vital that young people are identified and treated.
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To donate: mydonate.bt.com/charities/thedanielwilkinsonfoundation
ANDYSMANCLUB
WHAT IS ANDYSMANCLUB?
ANDYSMANCLUB is a free peer-to-peer group that provides a place for men to come together in a safe and open environment to talk about the issues or problems that they have faced or are currently facing.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
The process is about bringing men together who have been in similar situations, to help each other on a peer to peer basis, sharing how they have dealt with various situations through lived experiences. No matter how big or small your problem feels, we are here to support each other. The 5 questions that are asked each week are designed not only to encourage men to talk, but to start to focus on the positives and on strategies to keep moving forward. There is no pressure to answer any of the questions and it is not uncommon for men to just listen for the first few sessions.
The clubs all run on the same format and adhere to the same guidelines. A key principle of ANDYSMANCLUB is anything that is said in the club, stays within the club.
WHO IS IT FOR?
The club is open to any man 18 or over, who is going through a storm, been through a storm or just wants to meet a good group of people with the aim of improving one another.
WHEN IS IT?
ANDYSMANCLUBs meet every Monday at 7pm (excluding Bank Holiday Mondays).
WHERE IS IT?
ANDYSMANCLUB has over 100 locations across the UK. Check our website below for a full list.
HOW DO I JOIN?
Just turn up on the night. No registration or referral is required, all we ask is that you arrive before 7pm. The full list of our locations available on our website.
Column
by
Matt Badcock
TIME flies when you’re having fun and that’s certainly the case here at The
On Wednesday, March 26 we celebrated our 25th anniversary since the paper hit the newsstands.
In the years since, we’ve been lucky enough to have a front row seat to the heartbeat of English football.
We’ve seen an increased profile of this level of the game, a jump in professionalism, more than one restructure of the Pyramid and written about countless teams, players, managers, clubs, grounds – and results!
Stuart Pearce implored top clubs to unearth Non-League treasures on the front cover of The NLP’s first ever edition – and what good advice it has proved!
The England legend famously took that path himself, beginning at Wealdstone before going onto have a decorated career at the very top of the English game.
Pearce joined the Essex Senior League’s Non-League Day groundhop last weekend to see the impact of the Premier League’s Stadium Fund, which has distributed more than £207 million in grants to over 1,000 men’s and women’s clubs throughout the
English Football League, National League and football pyramid.
The fund, like The NLP, is celebrating its 25th anniversary and Pearce smiled when looking back at issue one of The Non-League Paper.
“It’s incredible – and 25 years later Dan Burn walks out in an England shirt,” Pearce told The NLP. “That’s a great point in case. A lot of players get released from academies and it can diminish their spirit but it shouldn’t necessarily do that.
“In fact – and I got released from QPR as a 13-year-old – it should inspire you to prove people wrong.
“I think all of football was delighted to see Dan Burn arrive in an England shirt. For what he’s doing for his club, a hometown boy if you like, and his pathway, it sends a great message out to youngsters that you don’t have to be a superstar to start with. If you’re determined, dogged, then you’ve got every opportunity.”
Kevin Ellison was on target the weekend The Non-League Paper was launched…and he’s still doing the business for Step 4 Vauxhall Motors now at the age of 46! The then-winger was on target for the Robins in a 1-1 draw with Kettering Town, one of the final points they picked up that season.
The Non-League Paper celebrates it’s 25th anniversary
Ellison excelled, earning a move to Premier League Leicester City a year later, but a late slump saw Alty relegated after a season back in the Nationwide Conference.
“I’d have rather not had a good season and we stayed up,” Ellison told The NLP.
“Getting back into the English pyramid was a big thing for me then, I’d been playing in the League of Wales.
“Altrincham gave me that great opportunity to go pro. I owe them a lot. You dream of it as a little boy.
“It didn’t happen for me when I was younger because clubs were telling me I wasn’t good enough, then five or six years ago they were bidding for me when they could have had me for free!”
Ellison recalls how keeping track of his career was a bit different at the turn of the century.
“I used to get the Manchester Pink and the Liverpool Echo, my regional North West papers,” he said. “My mum used to cut out write-ups on me.
“It was probably harder then for your ability to get recognised.
“Look at how many lads are uploading YouTube clips now? We didn’t have that then, but that’s not a negative.
“I’m fortunate to have played in old school football and the fast paced tempo game now.
“People will say the game was a bit slower then but it felt like it was more ‘proper’ football.
“Has the game changed for the better? Who knows.
“You should never forget your roots, even when I was in League Two I was still picking up my copy of The NonLeague Paper.”
Thanks Kev and to everyone else who has supported us through the years. Here’s to the next 25 years!
FROM THE ARCHIVES – THIS WEEK 1992
Thirty-three years ago this week Ilkeston Town played their last ever game at the ninetynine year old Manor Ground. The local council had decided that they needed to sell the land in order that the town could have their first superstore. Football fans were outraged despite the fact that their team had been relegated due to not being able to construct floodlights on the ground because of protests from local residents. The club were also unable to develop a clubhouse on the ground due to a covenant, with Shipstones who owned the adjoining Rutland Hotel, that prohibited the sale of alcohol on the site. It had a sloping badly drained pitch but it was home and witnessed some memorable matches over the years. Despite the protest and petitions the game against Great Wyrley in the West Midlands League second tier was to be the last game before the bulldozers moved in. Ilkeston Town who were unbeaten in the West Midlands League Division One fielded the following team.
Rigby, Fletcher, Beavons, Leame, Farrow, Burns, Duffy, Aldridge, King, Brooks and Stacey sub Cresswell.
Great Wyrley proved to be no match for the Robins who ran out comfortable 4-0 winners. The legendary Kenny Burns ex-European Cup Winner, Football League winner, Player of the Year winner and World Cup player, opened the scoring on six minutes. As the 610 Ilkeston faithful nostalgically swapped memories of the Manor Ground the team added three more goals through Brooks, Stacey and Duffy. Chris Brooks went on to score thirtyfour goals in twenty-six games and earned a move to Luton Town at the end of the season.
Ilkeston clinched the title in the remaining weeks of the season but lost their unbeaten record in a 1-0 loss against Gornal Athletic at Belper Town’s Christchurch Meadow. They also had to play another home game at Gresley Rovers Moat Ground but still managed to clinch the League and League Cup as well by beating Cannock Chase 4-1. The following season the Robins moved to their new ground the New Manor Ground and a new chapter in their history had begun although the ground initially experienced serious drainage problems and the team had six weeks in September and October without a home game. The old ground became initially Low’s supermarket and then Tesco’s before being turned into a Dunhelms.
Nationally Nottingham Forest beat Southampton 3 -2 in the ZDS Trophy final at Wembley. Gemmell two and Black got the goals and future Ilkeston player and manager Steve Chettle came on as a sub to replace the Forest legend Stuart Pearce who was injured early in the game. Derby County lost 2-1 to Ipswich Town in Division Two and included future Robin Simon Coleman in their line up and Ipswich had another future Ilkeston player Andy Kiwomya in their starting eleven. Notts County were in Division One and included future Robins boss Kevin Wilson in a team that lost at Crystal Palace and sank into the relegation places. Leeds were top of Division One, Ipswich headed Division Two, Stoke City topped Division Three and Burnley were the leaders of Division Four.
Nationally Princess Di was forced to curtail a skiing holiday in Austria to attend her father Earl Spencer’s funeral and the country were bracing themselves for another General Election which was won by the Conservative leader John Major who defeated Labour’s Neil Kinnock.
