Saturday May 27th has the potential to be one of the highlights of the year up to now for our club, with another promotion bid, an Awards Afternoon and a professional boxing debut for a promising young fighter with an Avro connection all on the agenda.
The action kicks off at 1pm, with the Reserves hosting Hindley Juniors in their final game of the league season. Victory would ensure that they start the 23-24 campaign in the Manchester League Premier Division, where of course our first team spent much of their existence before beginning their semi-professional football journey just under five years ago.
The two teams will then unite for an end of season Awards Afternoon, which will begin at 3pm. The reason for the move away from the traditional evening slot is to give an opportunity to all those boxing fans associated with the club to witness William Crolla’s first professional fight, which takes place at the AO Arena on the undercard of the WBA World Featherweight title fight between Mauricio Lara and Leigh Wood.
William is the younger brother of former WBA World Lightweight champion Anthony Crolla, who nowadays spends his time training up and coming fighters in the Fox ABC gym at the Vestacare Stadium.
Anybody who has a ticket for the fight and is looking for transport to and from central Manchester should contact the club at info@avrofc.co.uk to secure their seat on our coach, which will leave at 5pm.
