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Founded: 1964
Ground: The
Glasshoughton
Centre
Years in NCEL:
1985-
Nickname: Welfare/
The Blues
Status: West Riding
FA
Darren Holmes
and Lee Vigars
replaced
Lee Vigars believes
Simon
Glasshoughton Welfare
should have more points than Houghton and
Craig
they have, but he’s very
pleased with how the season Wilkinson who
resigned at the
has started.
end of last
That’s because Welfare are on season.
a seven-match unbeaten run (at
After playing
time of print), their best period
junior football
of form since the Craig Elliott
in the Ossett
glory days.
area, Holmes
progressed as
“We can’t complain because
a full-time
we’re unbeaten in seven, but
professional
we have dropped points in
footballer
games when we should have
gaining
taken three,” joint manager
contracts at
Vigars told Non League
Barnsley,
Yorkshire.
Bradford City
and York City.
“We should have taken three
Midweek Matchday:
Tuesday
points against Worsbrough, we
On returning to the non-league
dropped two points at Nostell,
we led against Campion and we scene, he played at various
clubs including Pontefract
couldn’t hold on there.”
Collieries, Ossett Albion,
Tadcaster Albion, AFC Emley
“We feel that although we’re
sitting in the top half we should and also Glasshoughton. gained experience in the NCEL
and Unibond League.
After retiring from playing,
Holmes managed Ossett Albion
Reserves and Under-19s before
managing Nostell Miners
Welfare in the Toolstation
“We are still a new squad, we’re NCEL Premier Division. From
there, he was assistant
still bonding and there is still a
manager at Evo-Stik League
lot more to come from this
Division One South team Goole
squad.”
AFC. However, in his second season,
he suffered a knee injury which
forced him to return home.
be a lot higher than we are.
“The club are happy and the
lads that were here last year
agree that we’re looking a lot
stronger.”
“We weren’t set any targets in
the summer, but we have taken
giant strides, we know that.”
In 1997, he spent six months at
West Ham United preparing for
a four-year contract that he had
signed with a club in New York.
He then played in the Football
Conference for Grays Athletic
before finally retiring due to the
knee injury.
Crofton based Vigars has been
the manager at Wakefield City
for the past fourteen years. In
his early playing days, he
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