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Season
1920-21. Ashton Amateur League During
the summer of 1920 the Droylsden officials spent £100 on having new drains laid and the ground was attended to generally. Having
won everything the Ashton Amateur League had to offer, the committee had now set their sights on bringing a higher class of
football to the town, and during this coming season an application would be made to join the Manchester League. Droylsden
started the season in similar fashion to the way they had finished the previous one, by winning matches. The Market Street lads
topped the league table by Christmas, though their form wasn’t quite as sparkling as it had been the season before. Points
started to slip away after the Christmas break and in February, Droylsden were beaten at home in the first round of the
Beaverbrook Cup by New Moss Colliery, the score 4-7. Secretary Gillibrand was so outraged at the inept performance of his defence
that he dropped every single one of them, including the goalkeeper. Mr. Gillibrand’s drastic actions however, produced immediate
results, with the new-look team winning their next match 9-0. The Droylsden committee had opted out of the Ashton Challenge Cup competition, and instead had applied to join the Ashton Senior Cup, into which they were accepted. Droylsden managed to make the quarterfinals of this competition, where New Moss Colliery beat them in front of 3,000 spectators. The season came to a close with news that the Market Street club had been accepted into the Manchester League, and Droylsden severed its links with the Ashton Amateur League by beating Haughton St. Mary’s 6-2 in their last game of the season.
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