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Page 1 of 2 A Brief History of the Club
One Saturday morning in 1986, a couple of dads were kicking a ball about in Fletcher Moss Park with their sons. Soon they were joined by more boys and a game started. Who would have thought that this would be the start of Fletcher Moss Rangers?
Nigel Hanson and Howard Isaacs organised two teams and more parents wanted to join in and organise more sides.
A season later, local referee Ron Jamieson was enlisted to run 9’s & 10’s. Soon the name Fletcher Moss became synonymous with style and good football. Attracting players from the surrounding districts.
In 1990 Ron was asked to be the secretary of the club and soon took us to another level and established links with Manchester City Football Club. The clubs’ reputation grew and more North West clubs were attracted to our talented youngsters.
It was about this time that Fletcher Moss’s famous son ‘Wes Brown’ began to emerge as a prospect. Although City deemed Wes was not good enough, United had other thoughts and decided to sign him. Now an established first team player with England caps in his display cabinet.
Ron and a neighbour, Neil Brown began the Fletcher Moss Soccer School on Fog lane park, which attracted about 25/30 players each Saturday morning. Due to Neil’s commitment to running another team in a local league, Ron asked another team coach David Horrocks for assistance to run the Saturday community football. The Soccer School outgrew Fog lane park and was, with in trepidation, moved to its present home. Mersey Bank playing fields is probably the best move that was made for the club.
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