FROM wiping away tears of despair to managing multi-million pound Championship players, Gareth Ainsworth’s football odyssey was originally shaped by the timely intervention of a welcoming Non-League club.
Back in May 1991, he was released on his 18th birthday by hometown team Blackburn Rovers following two years as an apprentice footballer hugging the right wing.
Nonetheless, resilient Ainsworth picked himself up and produced exhilarating performances turning out for Northwich Victoria in the GM Vauxhall Conference (now the National League). Within weeks, he ascended to the pr...