Born in Macclesfield on 1st November 1978.
Alan Bailey bagan his playing career as a trainee with Manchester City in 1996.
He had a loan spell with Macclesfield Town in 1999 making 10 appearances and scoring 1 goal. He signed for Stockport County in July 1999 and played 21 first team games scoring 2 goals.
He was released by County in May 2001 and then had spells with Burton Albion (where he won promotion to the Conference), Marine and Guiseley before signing for Jason Beckford's Mossley in August 2003.
Clever attacking player who made 25 appearances for the Lilywhites scoring 11 goals before transferring to Ashton United for the following season.
He later played for Woodley Sports.
A talented musician, after retiring from playing he later turning his hand to acting and film production with some notable success; he co-founded the manchester Film Festival in 2015.

Born in Dawley, Shropshire on 22nd March 1920.
Thomas Graham Bailey signed for Huddersfield Town just before the outbreak of WWII and made 4 appearances on loan for Mossley in the wartime season.
Returned to Huddersfield Town after WWII and made 33 appearances and then played 20 games for Sheffield United as a full back.

Born in Southport on 13th September 1907. Died in Luton 2nd February 1976.
John Thomas Ball signed for Mossley from Welsh club Newtown United in 1925,
He was transferred to Southport in the closed season of 1926 after scoring 10 goals in 18 appearances, including a debut hat-trick in a 5-1 win over Macclesfield on 31st October 1925.
He joined Chorley the following season and In 1929 he was transferred by Chorley to Manchester United and scored 18 goals in 50 appearances in 2 spells at Old Trafford.
Sandwiched between was a three and a half year spell with Sheffield Wednesday (132-90).
Jack Ball stood only 5ft 7in but in his time at Hillsborough he was a goalscoring giant and a great favourite with supporters.
He arrived at Wednesday from Manchester United in the summer of 1930 for a £1,300 fee, and scoring 17 goals in his first 14 games, proved so successful that Jack Allen, the hero of the two previous seasons, was unable to get back into the side.
In his second term with Wednesday, Ball’s tally of 23 goals included eleven from the penalty spot — a feat which remained a League record for some 40 years.
Ball’ s third season was his best, for he bagged 35 League and Cup goals and missed only one League game.
However, following the sudden departure of Bob Brown, new manager Billy Walker almost immediately chose to transfer Ball back to Old Trafford in order to obtain Neil Dewar.
Ball’ s tally of 94 goals for the Owls included a four, three hat-tricks and 12 doubles in the First Division alone.
Often known as ‘ last-minute Ball’ because of his penchant for late goals, he left Hillsborough in late December 1933, moved to Huddersfield Town in September 1934, and after only a month at Leeds Road joined Luton Town, where he played alongside ‘ Ten-Goal’ Joe Payne in the famous game with Bristol Rovers in April 1936.
He had a short spell in France as a coach with Excelsior Roubaix when his playing days were over and briefly managed St Albans City and Biggleswade Town after WWII.

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 he wound down his playing career he made just 6 appearances in the 2012/13 season and was more often than not named as an unused substitute while honing his management skills as Steve Halford's right hand man.
Band was previously player / 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, Band 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. He was appointed joint team manager at Mossley alongside Lloyd Morrison in August 2013 holding the role for almost 5 years before the pair were sacked in April 2018.
Band along with Lloyd Morrison were appointed as joint mnaagers of Glossop North End in October 2018.

Born 28th August 1995
Talented attacking midfielder Jack Banister was signed from Widnes in September 2021.
Banister began his non league career with Widnes helping them to promotion to the Northern Premier League in the 2017/18 season.
He then spent the 2018/19 season with FC United of Manchester where he scored 7 goals in 38 appearances in National League North before signing for Curzon Ashton in July 2019.
Jack joined Warrington Town on dual registration from Curzon in October 2019 and briefly re-joined Widnes in February 2020. He then signed for Atherton Collieries before re-joining Widnes for a third time in late 2020.

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Born in Rugeley, Manchester on 10th June 1957.
Son of former Manchester City Wing Half Ken Barnes, he joined his father’s club in July 1972, turning professional in August 1974.
Peter Barnes won England Youth honours and his dazzling displays soon earned him Under-Twenty-one caps and Football League representative honours.
In 1976 he played a large part in Manchester City’s League Cup win and he was named Young Player of the Year.
In November 1977 he won the first of his twenty-two full England caps. He was surprisingly sold to West Bromwich Albion in July 1979 for £650,000, after scoring fifteen goals in one hundred and twenty-three games at Maine Road.
After scoring twenty-three goals in seventy-seven games at the Hawthorns, he was signed by Allan Clarke for Leeds in August 1981 for £930,000.
He never showed his England form and was loaned out to Spanish club, Real Betis, for a one year loan option worth £130,000 in August 1982.
He was back at Leeds, who were now a Second Division club, at the end of the loan period and he was sold to Coventry City for £65,000 in October 1984, after a brief loan spell with Manchester United in May 1984 and Melbourne JUST in April 1984.
He scored twice in eighteen appearances before he left Coventry City and joined Manchester United for £50,000 in July 1985, where he scored twice in twenty appearances, before moving across the City, to his former club in January 1987 for £30,000.
He remained with City until March 1988, although he had loan spells with Bolton Wanderers, where he failed to score in five appearances, and Port Vale, scorelees in three games, when he was transferred to Hull City. He only stayed until the end of the season, making eleven appearances without scoring, before departing for SC Farense in June 1988.
His stay there was also brief and he returned to Bolton Wanderers in November 1988, where his stay was equally brief, joining Sunderland in February 1989 and leaving in June 1989, after just one game.
He saw service with Rodney Marsh’s Tampa Bay Rowdies in the USA and Footscray in Australia before returned to England with Bury, where he did not play a game.
He had trials with a succession of Non-League clubs, including Mossley where he played eight games without scoring, and Northwich Victoria, but failed to impress and returned for a short spell with SC Forense in 1991.
He turned to coaching clinics, part-time football management with Runcorn and TV summarising and pundit work.
He holds the distinction with his father of being the only such related players ever to have both scored a First Division hat-trick.

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Born in Middleton, Manchester on 30th March 1955
Graham Thomas Bell is the son of former Oldham Athletic, Stockport County, Halifax Town and Mossley wing half Tommy Bell.
Graham began his playing career with Chadderton before being signed by Oldham Athletic in December 1973.
He quickly established himself as a lively attacking midfielder with good vision and he went on to make 170 appearances scoring 9 goals.
During his first season in professional football Graham's performances caught the eye of England manager Don Revie, who placed him on standby for the full England squad.
He was transferred to Preston North End in March 1979 for a £80,000 fee and he made 143 appearances for the Deepdale club before being given a free transfer in 1983.
Then followed a short spell with Carlisle United (14-0) before a move to Bolton Wanderers where he made 92 appearances scoring 3 goals and his Football League career ended with a 42 game spell at Tranmere Rovers in the 1986-87 season.
He then signed for Hyde United and arrived at Mossley as player-assistant manager to his former Oldham team-mate Keith Hicks in January 1988, being signed in exchange for popular Mossley players Joe Connor and Walter Nisbett. A very unpopular move with the Mossley fans!
When Hicks departed in September 1988 Bell was made Caretaker-Manager and applied for the job. However, form had not improved in seven games in charge but he remained as a player following the appointment of Bryan Griffiths in October 1988.
He rejoined Hicks at Hyde at the end of the 1988-89 season after winning a League Cup winners medal with Mossley and having made 83 appearances scoring 6 goals.
Bell returned to Mossley in the 1991-92 season under Les Sutton's management and made a further 27 appearances scoring 1 goal, finally rounding off his playing carteer with a spell at Horwich RMI.
Bell made a total 110 appearances for the Lilywhites in two spells scoring 7 goals.
Graham Bell features amongst both 'The Legends of Oldham Athletic' and 'The 100 Greatest Preston North End Post War Players'.

Born on 3rd August 1987.
Matthew Berkeley began his career with Gretna making 15 appearances and scoring 2 goals as the now disbanded border side gained promotion to the Scottish 1st Division and spent 9 games on loan at Conference North side Workington in 2006.
He returned to Gretna to help their Scottish Cup campaign. He was released by Gretna in 2007 and joined Altrincham.
In October 2007 he re-signed for Workington. Whilst with Workington the frontman was called up to the St Kitts & Nevis first team to take part in their World Cup qualifier against Belize, having already been capped at under 20 level.
He moved to Droylsden in June 2008 but a month later he joined the now troubled Leigh Genesis from where he joined Mossley in November 2008.
Transferred to Hyde United but then soon joined The New Saints (Wales).
Later returned to Hyde before spells with Workington, Colwyn Bay, Droylsden and Stafford Rangers.

Born in DR Congo on 3rd December 1996.
Roving midfielder Andreas Bianga was signed in February 2022 from neighbours Ashton United.
He previously played for Droylsden, Curzon Ashton, Clitheroe and Stockport Town having begun as a trainee at Burnley.

Born on 18th November 1931 in Salford, Lancashire; died in South Africa.
Brian Birch joined Manchester United as a 14-year-old in May 1946, before turning professional two years later. He was 17 when he made his debut on 27 August 1949, playing at inside left in a 1–1 home draw with West Bromwich Albion.
Birch was always on the fringes of the United first team, but apart from a spell midway through the 1950–51 season in which he scored four goals in nine appearances, he never lived up to his potential and was sold to Wolverhampton Wanderers for £10,000 towards the end of the 1951–52 season.
His tenure at Wolves was short, however, and he was transferred to Lincoln City after just nine months in the West Midlands.
In three years with Lincoln, Birch played in more than fifty matches, scoring 15 goals.
He then dropped out of league football for a season in 1955, joining Boston United, before moving to Barrow in 1956.
He became a first team regular at Barrow, making 60 appearances and scoring 27 goals in just over two seasons there.
Exeter City signed him in September 1958, but he was on the move again in January 1960, this time to Oldham Athletic.
He moved to Rochdale in March 1961, before going into coaching at the end of the 1961–62 season.
He dipped in and out of playing for the next few years, picking up appearances for Boston United, Mossley and Ellesmere Port, but his coaching experience eventually led him to Blackburn Rovers in 1967, where he became the coach to one of the club's junior teams.
Birch was trainer of Galatasaray from 1971 till 1973. He won two consecutive championships with Galatasaray in Turkish First League and Helsingborgs IF.
In the summer of 1980 he returned to Galatasaray and he managed the turkish club MKE Ankaragücü SK in 1987.

Born on.24th November 1982.
Very skilful attacking midfielder or forward who returned to Mossley in September 2009 after a brief spell with Glossop North End.
A former Mossley Juniors player also served Ashton United and had an earlier spell at Glossop where he was named NWCL Player of the Year in 2006/07.
Transferred to Woodley Sports and then followed former Mossley manager John Flanagan to Curzon Ashton in the close season of 2011.
Returned to Glossop North End in 2013.
Retired from playing in 2015.

Born in Buxton on 18th March 1894, Died in Harpur Hill on 12th August 1988.
Robert 'Bobby' Blood was a centre-forward, noted for his powerful strikes.
Blood played for Buxton, Buxton Lime Farms, Leek Alexandra, 7th Sherwood Foresters and Leek United before signing for Port Vale for a £50 fee in November 1919 after impressing at a 1918 trial.
During the First World War he suffered a hole in his right leg, as well as having one leg shorter than the other, despite this he continued his footballing career.
In the 1919–20 he finished as Port Vale top scorer with 26 goals, and also in the 1920/21 season with 20 goals. West Bromwich Albion signed him in February 1921 for £4,000.
He later played for Stockport County, Winsford United, Mossley (where he scored 6 goals in 17 appearances for the Lilywhites), Buxton and Ashton National.

Midfield player signed by Gerry Quinn from Ossett Albion in January 2008.
Previously with Ossett Town. Later with Liversedge, Ossett Town and Wakefield.

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Signed in September 2008 from Harrogate Railway Athletic.
Boshell joined Rail' in the close season from Liversedge were he was leading scorer in 2007/08.
Returned to Liversdege. Later with Ossett Albion, Brighouse Town, Bradford Park Avenue, Guiseley and Ossett Town.