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ONE of Southport’s most hard-working and devoted servants was honoured recently when the inaugural Paul Butler Award was presented to Henry Eccles, a young cricketer who embodies the virtues the trophy seeks to applaud.
Paul Butler was chairman of Southport and Birkdale Sports Club and also captained the second team. He was also a long-serving player and one of S&B’s most tireless servants. However, he insisted that nothing was possible, either in life or on the sports field, without effort, attitude and ability.
Following Paul’s death in 2019 his son, Jamie, donated an award to the club that honours those three qualities and Henry Eccles, its first recipient, recently received his trophy. It comes with other benefits but seeks, above all, to perpetuate the values in which Paul Butler believed and by which he lived his life.
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