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Michael
Trevor Jones was born in Monmouth, Wales on 25th September 1951 and
came to New Zealand in the late 1970’s with his wife Sally, and
children Victoria & Gareth. He started work as a Psychiatric
Assistant at Oakley Hospital, and joined Hospital United AFC as a
superb striker, later becoming a Recreation Officer in
Carrington-Oakley Hospitals in 1984. In 1989 Mike took over the
management of Hospital United, withdrawing the team from the AFA and
entering it into the Auckland Business House Sunday Soccer League
(ABSSL). A year later he was diagnosed with ‘Motor Neurone Disorder’
and after a long, slow physical deterioration Mike died on 29th
March 1995 at the age of 43. Mike never gave up – when the time came
that he could no longer run he continued to come and support… the
bar! (Jim Jacobs).
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3rd & 4th Division - The ‘Michael Trevor Jones Cup’
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