Mark, nicknamed 'Mad Dog', made over 300 appearances for Altrincham FC
Altrincham FC have led the tributes to former skipper and club legend Mark Maddox following his death from motor neurone disease aged 50. Mark made over 300 appearances for the Robins between between 1996 and 2006.
Speaking in 2013 he told Mancunian Matters: "When you are diagnosed everything is doom and gloom – and rightly so because obviously it's terminal. But the sooner you get over that the better it becomes."Hopefully people with MND will look at me and say 'Well he's had it two-and-a-half years – why can't I do that?' That's what I'm trying to create.
In 2021 his campaigning was praised in Parliament by his friend, Liverpool West Derby MP Ian Byrne, who highlighted Mark's story to call on the Government to do more to help MND sufferers. He said: "Mark was told at diagnosis that he would be lucky to live beyond a year—that was 11 years ago. Liverpool-born Mark first joined Alty from Sunday football in 1996. After a brief spell with Barrow, he returned to Moss Lane in December 1998 and went on to play 348 times for the Robins.
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