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Born on 21st September 1980, Stephen Halford started his career at his hometown club Bury where he played 5 games in the Football League, before joining Chester City in 2001. He then joined Accrington Stanley in the 2002 and made 57 appearances, scoring 2 goals for Stanley.

After a brief spell at Radcliffe Borough he joined Droylsden in 2005 and made 106 appearances scoring 6 goals in five seasons for the Bloods before his release in September 2010. He signed for Hyde on 1st October 2010 and made 32 appearances scoring 2 goals in the 2010/11 season. Halford took over as joint player-manager on a caretaker basis late in the season at Hyde and was awarded the Hyde FC Player's Player of the Year for 2010/11.

Signing for Mossley as a player in August 2011, he was then appointed Mossley Player-Manager in January 2012 following Gareth McClelland's departure appointing fellow Mossley player peter band as his assistant. He he then led Mossley to a comfortable mid-table finish in his first season and to success in the Manchester FA Premier Cup. In his first full season as amanager he led Mossley to the promotion play offs where the Lilywhites lost in the semi final at Cammell Laird but Halford's team did retain the Manchester FA Premier Cup beating Salford City in the final at Edgeley Park, Stockport.

As a player Halford made 58 Mossley appearances, scoring 4 goals before resigning as Manager on the eve of the 2013/14 pre season friendlies to join Paul Phillips as joint managers of Ashton United. Halford has since been joint manager at Glossop North End and Buxton.

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Born on 18th December 1973. Peter Band joined Mossley as a player in August 2011 and made 42 appearances for the Lilywhites in the 2011/12 season. As Peter wound down his playing career he made just 6 appearances and was more often than not named as an unused substitute while honing his management skills as Steve Halford's right hand man in the 2012/13 season and last season made just a solitary app[earance as a substitute.

Peter is now in his third season as joint Team Manager at Mossley with Lloyd Morrison, having previously been assistant manager to Chris Willcock at the former Woodley Sports and then to Halford at Mossley following Gareth MClelland's departure in January of 2012.

As a player, Peter was late into the semi pro game having played for Cheshire amateurs Bollington Athletic for several years before joining Hyde United in 1998 at 25 years old. He started out as a striker but reverted to midfield and was often used as a centre back as well, a position he eventually featured in regularly for his later clubs.

He left a struggling Hyde team to join Altrincham and then stepped up to the Conference with Northwich Victoria. On Altrincham's promotion to the Conference he switched back to Moss Lane in the summer of 2006, making his 200th appearance for Altrincham in that season. He re-joined Hyde for his second spell at the club in 2007, quickly making his 200th appearance for them also. He joined New Mills in the summer of 2008 and then on to Woodley Sports from where he joined Mossley.

Band and Morrison were dismissed in March 2018 after almost five years in charge following a poor run of results.