Kendal Town have signed the experienced midfielder Niall Cowperthwaite as they plan for the new season – in a new league.
Cowperthwaite, who has spent the last five seasons at Lancaster City in NPL Premier Division, has also played for Morecambe, Barrow and Workington.
His father Colin was a goal-scoring legend with Barrow for whom he played from 1977 to 1992, scoring 282 goals in 704 league and cup games.
Barrow-born Niall, 32, started with Morecambe youth team and then moved into the senior squad where he made 10 senior appearances before being released at the end of the 2011/12 season.
H spent the 2012–13 season with Workington but at the end of the season he left the Reds to attend Lancaster University. While studying there he had brief spells with Kendal and Penrith before joining Barrow on non-contract terms.
In February 2016 he ruptured his ACL and was out of the game for two years before rejoining the Reds where he spent a season before joining Lancaster City in May 2019.
There had been suggestions that Morecambe-based Cowperthwaite would link up with his former manager Mark Fell for a third spell at Borough Park but that hasn’t happened.
As they build a squad to compete in the Northern League, the recruitment of Cowperthwaite is a sound one for the Mintcakes who will be hoping to add the bulk of last season’s squad.
