A Life of Football and Friendships From a WW2 Veteran

A new Film by Craig Buckley Opel Productions
Interviewing a 98-year-old war veteran on his life of football and friendships
Ashville Football Club was founded in 1949, by John and Joyce Dennett from 25 Ashville Road Wallasey.
John Dennett BEM
Wallasey's John Dennett served as a Navy gunner in North Africa, Italy, and Normandy and later founded Ashville FC to give local boys somewhere to play. He started it with his wife and named it after the street where they lived. He said it was six months before he was eligible, but nobody asked to see his birth certificate.
He said being a gunner on a landing ship "had you on your toes and you hoped it wouldn't get no worse".
"You realised what war was about," he said.
"Your life depends on each other."
Just before the D-Day landings in 1944, his ship docked in Birkenhead, and whilst ashore, he met his future wife Joyce.
Together, they formed Ashville FC in 1949, named the club after the street where they lived in Wallasey, Ashville Road.