LIFELONG Wanderers fan Jack Ashworth would be delighted with his final resting place -- the Reebok Stadium.

Mr Ashworth, aged 78, died earlier this month from a heart attack after six years of battling cancer.

His family turned to staff at the football club he supported to give the Tonge Moor grandfather the send off he would have wanted.

The Wanderers organised signed photographs of his favourite players, which went with him in his coffin, and sent the family a letter of condolence. And on Friday, in a short ceremony conducted at the ground by the club's chaplain, the Rev Phil Mason, Jack's ashes will be scattered behind the north goal.

Among those present will be his widow, Doris, three sons and three daughters and several grandchildren, including grandson Clinton Ramsden, who contacted the club.

Mr Ramsden said: "The club have been marvellous.

"They have done us proud."

Jack, who worked at Leigh's Paints until he retired, was a Wanderers fan from boyhood.

He enjoyed games at the club's old Burnden Park home, but also loved going to all the home matches at the Reebok Stadium with granddaughter Katie Glover.

Mr Ramsden said his grandfather would have approved of their choice of venue for his ashes.

Richard Norton, the stadium's head groundsman, said that about 50 people have had their ashes scattered at the Reebok.