Dale favourite Joe, a former Manchester United youth player who also turned out for Tranmere Rovers and Bury, beat nodular sclerosis Hodgkin lymphoma in 2014 after six months of chemotherapy.READ MORE: The red tent camp outside Manchester town hall - and why it's 'not helping anyone'
Now married dad Joe, a radio presenter, has revealed he's been diagnosed with cancer again, telling BBC Radio Manchester today of the moment he told his eldest daughter with his wife. "I suppose the only positive is, it's the same cancer as what I have had previously. The issue for me this time round is, it's gone to my lungs.
"And I just noticed that on the right hand side of my neck there was one large lymph node. I obviously spoke to my wife Chantelle and was like 'oh no, have we got to walk this road again'."