The late Kenny Lord’s official send-off

THE late Kenny Lord, who devoted much of his sporting life to amateur sport in Shaw and districts, will have his ashes scattered in strategic places on Monday by the Oldham RLFC Players’ Association.

This popular man of Shaw, one of the best-known sporting administrators in that region, is best remembered as a leading official of the long-gone Shaw Rhinos amateur rugby league club and an enthusiast with a passion for Crompton Cricket Club, going all the way back to the great days of Sonny Ramadhin, the great Tom Everett, dubbed the “Penny Pro’ by the now defunct Oldham Evening Chronicle and a young batsman called Peter Marner.

What memories Kenny had!

The Oldham RL Players’ Association was heavily involved in his funeral arrangements and on Monday at 3pm members will meet up at High Crompton Park, where Shaw Rhinos used to play, to scatter some of his ashes. They will then move down to the Glebe Street ground of Crompton Cricket Club to scatter the remainder. Appropriately, Crompton will have a home game on Monday, a Bank Holiday, against Accrington.

Players’ Association spokesman Ray Hicks said:

”We are honoured and privileged to do this. Ken was a hard-working and very efficient club official and I’m sure we’ll have a few of our members at High Crompton Park at 3pm on Monday, as well as people who knew him well and what he stood for in terms of Shaw and it’s sporting environment.”