Ally Pickering
Appointed Manager: November 2001
Departed:

July 2003

First game in charge: 24th November 2001
v Prescot Cables Home D 1-1
Last game in charge: 7th May 2003
v Clitheroe W 2-1 (NWCLTrophy Final)
Games in charge: Played 85 Won 51 Drawn 15 Lost 19
Honours with Mossley North West Counties League Trophy
Winners 2002/03
FA Vase Quarter Finalist 2002/03

Clubs as Player:

Buxton
Rotherham United
Coventry City
Stoke City
Burnley
Altrincham
Chesterfield
Chester City (loan)

Hyde United
Gainsborough Trinity

Previous Clubs as Manager   none
Later Clubs as Manager   Woodley Sports (Manager)
New Mills
(Manager)

Albert Gary Pickering was born in Manchester on 22nd June 1967. He began his playing career under former Mossley manager Bob Murphy at Buxton and was later transfered to Rotherham United in 1990 for an £18,000 fee.

After making 88 appearances he was transfered to Coventry City for £80,000 in 1993. He made 65 appearances for Coventry before moving to Stoke City for a £280,000 fee in 1996. He made 83 appearances for Stoke before moving to Burnley on a free transfer where he made a further 21 appearances. He then had brief spells with Cambridge United and Chester City before returning to non-league with Hyde United and then Gainsborough Trinity.

He joined Mossley as a player in March 2001 and was appointed manager in November 2001 replacing Benny Phillips and led the Lilywhites to their first silverware for 10 years in winning the NWCFL Worthington Trophy beating Clitheroe 2-1 at Bury FC's Gigg Lane. He departed from Seel Park in controversial circumstances in July 2003 and a month later became assistant manager at Woodley Sports.

Pickering later became manager of Woodley Sports and New Mills.



Jason Beckford
Appointed Assistant Manager: June 2002
Departed:

April 2007

Clubs as Player:

Manchester City
Blackburn Rovers (loan)
Port Vale (loan)
Birmingham City
Bury (loan)
Stoke City
Millwall
Northampton Town
Previous Clubs as Manager   Bolton Wanderers (Youth coach)
Later Clubs as Manager   Bolton Wanderers (Youth coach)
Oldham Athletic (Youth coach)
Newmarket SC (Canada) (Youth coach)
Kleinberg Nobleton SC (Canada) (Youth coach)
Vaughan SC (Canada) (Head Coach)

Jason Beckford was born in Manchester on 14th February 1970. A former striker with Manchester City, Birmingham City, Stoke City, Millwall and Northampton Town, his career was ended prematurely by injury and he arrived at Mossley after coaching Bolton Wanderers Academy side.

He was appointed assistant manager in June 2002 and following Ally Pickering's shock departure in July 2003, he was appointed team manager, leading Mossley top promotion back to the UniBond League in his first season in charge. In 2003/04

Mossley won promotion back to the UniBond Premier as Division One champions in 200/06 but, following Mossley's relegation after just one hugely disappointing season in the NPL top flight Beckford resigned.

After leaving Mossley in April 2007, he returned to Bolton in 2008 as part of the club's restructured youth academy, and also worked as the under-16 coach at Oldham Athletic.

In August 2012, he moved to Canada to work as Newmarket Soccer Club's technical director.