Matty Ashton has gone from flipping burgers to turning over Super League defences and still can’t quite believe it.
The flying winger, 24, looks to help maintain Warrington’s 100 percent winning start when they host Salford on Friday. He got off the mark with last week's try double at Huddersfield and is hotly tipped to be in Shaun Wane’s England plans for the 2025 World Cup. Yet rapid Ashton admits often thinking about how he nearly didn’t even get close to making the cut.
He was playing amateur for Rochdale Mayfield before earning a trial at part-timers Swinton Lions in 2019. Late-starter Ashton recalled: “I still pinch myself every morning when I go into training. I had some jobs in the past which I wouldn’t wish on anyone. McDonald's was probably the worst. But I had some when I didn’t have a clue what I was doing!
