A new grassroots football club is aiming to put Birkenhead "back on the map".
Children from Birkenhead Junior FC will lace up their boots for the first time when the new season kicks off next month. The club is the brainchild of chairman Jon Fowler, 42, who, over the past five years, has established himself as an experienced coach on the Merseyside football scene.
He told the ECHO : "I’ve grown a few teams during my time, setting them up with managers and things like that. One day my friend said to me, ‘why don’t you set up your own club’, and I started to think it was something I could do.
