Uncle frank grew up in the new moston area of manchester, he worked as a coach driver most of his life then got a job with wallace arnold, this took him around the world. towards the end of his career he was based in st tropez in france, when he came home he worked taking disabled children to and from school. in his spare time he set up his own football club called wardle allstars to help disadvantaged children from the wardle area of rochdale.