Career
Ashall became a coal miner upon leaving school but showed an interest in football, playing for several colliery football teams and having also had a trial at Huddersfield Town. He was a first choice player over his two full seasons at Molineux, making 94 appearances in total and scoring 19 goals. He moved to Coventry City in 1938, remaining on their books for almost a decade, but with the suspension of league football due to war limiting his appearances.
In September 1947, he suffered a career-ending injury against West Bromwich Albion.
He died in May 1998.
