FROM PREMIER LEAGUE to NON LEAGUE in 30 YEARS!!! Oldham Athletic Football Club
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- Опубліковано 7 чер 2024
- I visited Oldham Athletic Association Football Club as they've recently become the first team to have played in the Premier League AND Non League.
I got let inside Boundary Park for a quick look around and also investigated the history of this old football club.
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Will Oldham be back in the EFL one day soon???
I'd say League Two.
Hope they get back in the EFL soon. Fun fact about Boundary Park- the ground is nicknamed 'Ice Station Zebra' because of how cold it is
Yes they have to this or next season
Looking at the number of former EFL clubs in the fifth tier, I don't think it'll happen soon. That was a fascinating video, charting a club's meteoric rise and fall. Quite a contrast to Manchester City, who had hard times not too long ago. I can remember them playing in the old third division. What I most like about the channel is the variety; keep it coming mate!
@@mattjohnson9913 I`ve been there in September and it was freezing. It`s definitely a at least 4 or 5 layer away day
People like the Oldham supporter at the end of the video - who just stand by their team, no matter what, are the reason why I feel in love with English football. They will forever be the heart of football.
That's a nice comment mate.
As a life-long Oxford United fan I am sad to say that we beat this record by quite a number of years. The Yellows graced the old First Div, before it was renamed as the Premier League, for 3 seasons between 1985-88, winning the League Cup in 1986 by the then biggest margin of 3-0. Like the fate of Oldham we had shyster owners begining with maxwell and ending with kassam and we found ourselves in the Conference in 2006, just 20yrs after being in the 'top flight'. My very best wishes to Oldham, and all their fans, as the Conference is a tough, tough, league to get out of - it took us 4 seasons but, like many other clubs they can, with a bit of astute management and patience, do it. Good Luck, Oldham FC.
The National League is filling up with big clubs that have been badly run and it isn't surprising to see huge crowds for some league games at this level.
Yep
@@Pickle_edits 10,700 at Notts County v Wrexham and that was a Tuesday night game
You wanted some interesting information about where and how some clubs were founded. Since I am from the Czech Republic, I will write two things that you might not have known. Sparta Prague was founded in 1893. Believe it or not, it was not founded in Prague then. Sparta was then founded in a city called Královské Vinohrady. Today this place is already part of Prague, but back then it was an independent rich city. So the club was initially called AC Královské Vinohrady. Only a year later, a meeting of the founders took place in a pub (this time in Prague), and because club did not receive financial support in Královské Vinohrady, they decided to move the club to Prague. And since ancient Greece was popular at the time, they named the club Sparta. So Sparta Prague also got its name in the pub. And now one thing that maybe you didn't know and still a lot of people don't know. Surely you know Hajduk Split, a team from Croatia. And you probably still thought it was founded in Split. But it wasn't. It was founded by a group of Croatian students who studied at the University in Prague and had just returned to their favorite Prague pub from the Sparta - Slavia match. They were so excited by the match that they decided to found a football club, which after completing their studies in Prague started playing in their hometown of Split. So yes, Croatian Hajduk Split was founded in a Prague pub in 1911.
All I want for Christmas is a Dukla Praugue away kit.
Really interesting 👌
Noone cares bro
@@_viresh_ you don’t care… that is fine… but don’t speak for others 😎😛
@@vojtechkostovski951 noone cares about anything in your poor country 🤣
The supporter who has followed Oldham for 61 years is a true gem.
Great vid!
Thanks Michael.
I've loved every minute of it.
It's not easy being a Latics fan, with United and City on our doorstep, but Oldhamers are very passionate about our Team and Town.
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Ah that's brilliant I also started supporting them in 1961 ,they played a lot of friendly games in Scotland when I was on holidays I could not manage to there games , a long time a go 😀 👍
He's an absolute star..a proper football fan for sure. Only ever seen Oldham Athletic once,went to a night-match with a mate of mine who used to live in Oldham,vs Morecambe in the brief Paul Scholes era. Sadly they lost 2-1,the inevitable finally happened,but now with local/better ownership there should be some good times soon. All the best from "over the top of the hill" Huddersfield Town.
I was at their last game as a league team. Tragic what's happened to them, but they're now owned by someone local who know what it means to be an Oldham fan.
I clearly remember the early of 1990's they had have a brilliant cup team then, with Neill Pointon and some others. I am a good friend of the lower divsions in English football from Hungary. Sorry my bad for English.
Paul Scholes is the owner?😉😄
What does it mean to be an Oldham fan? Ultimately isn’t supporting a local club the same for all supporters and it all means the same?
I'm an Orient fan Mr Doing. I can feel your pain. The highlight of the Conference for us was playing Dagenham. The O's and Oldham are similar clubs. Loyal support in the face of being surrounded by Mega Clubs. I think back in the not so far off past, the O's and Oldham were the longest serving teams in the second tier.
was there at the salford city game last season and in the last minutes when the Athleticos stormed pitch it just set in that Abdallah has done this to a club that means so much
I am an Oldham fan and we are really struggling but there is a air of optimism. New chairman. It’s a great place to watch football and the athleticos are amazing. I live 5 minutes from where your filming.
I’d love to come for a game one day. And best of luck under the new regime, hope to see you back in the EFL soon!
Be good to see you back in league Propper club unlike the likes of Bournemouth with f**k all history like some MK Dons and teams like that rather see the likes of Forest Wednesday Oldham Even Coventry were in the top flight for years and have better history than some
@@ellivisionbytheartistandre6467 it’s going to be tough. I don’t expect us to go up this season. We have a lot of new players who need to gel. A lot of good teams in the league. We got humiliated at Woking on Tuesday. Lost 3-0. But we will be back.
@@FootyAdventures the club is very friendly and if you contact them I am sure you will get a press pass. The new regime is trying to bury the old past. The Athleticos are the heart and soul of the fans. Very noisy and passionate. Lot of young lads. I sit in the disabled section. The athleticos sit behind the goal in the jimmy frizzell stand.
@@ronmac9522 I would not say they are that friendly. Our team coach had its windows smashed by Oldham fans.
Boundary Park seems to be one of the loveliest stadiums in England if you ask me. I love this behind-the-goal stand covered by one of these good old gable roofs which represent the romanticism of British football for me. If I will come back to visit Britain again and see the Manchester area once in my lifetime, I'll have to go to Oldham for sure.
I really have a soft spot for the clubs in the lower divisions which had their best times in the early 90s when I got intrigued into football. The team of my hometown which is currently playing in the 4th tier of Germany (a semi-professional league comparable to the National League but divided into regional groups, so it's quite complicated to get out of this division), Wuppertaler SV, was a 2. Bundesliga team at this time (they also spent three years in the Bundesliga in the 70s and even made it into the UEFA Cup as as a newly promoted team, but that was a handful of years before I was born).
Please do more videos like this featuring British non-league teams which spent their best times in the 2nd or even the first tier like Oldham. You can literally smell the history at these places, and watching these collared Umbro shirts from the 90s takes me back to these good old days. I'm thinking about clubs such as Stockport County or Southend United. Best regards from Germany, loving your channel
One of the coldest grounds if you visit in winter, with icy wind and rain whipping off the Pennine hills. Grimsby is a similarly bleak prospect if you haven't got your thermals on.
Why would you visit Oldham? It's a hell hole
Oldham had a miracle escape at the end of that first PL season, staying up by winning their final three games. Sadly my team (Palace) got relegated as a result. On a more positive note, we were extremely close to getting a Palace v Oldham Cup Final in 1990. Despite what happened in 1993, I hope they can get back into the EFL soon.
Yep after we beat Ipswich 3-0 the players did a lap of honour round Selhurst thinking safety had been secured and Oldham (who played villa the following day) won their final 3 league games and Wrighty sent us downcon the final day a Highbury.
Wish Oldham well.
I feel your pain! Us saints didn't go down but did lose 4-3 at Oldham's boundary park! Ah well. It was a result that helped the miraculous escape, fair play to the poor oldham janners.
Although I'm a United fan I'm absolutely shocked and saddened to find out that Oldham have fallen into the 5th tier of football. It was 32 & 28 years respectively we had those epic FA Cup Semi final battles with them but somehow it seems like it was only yesterday. Truth be told we should have lost them both and I had just about given the ghost before Mark Hughes saved the day. My driving instructor was from Oldham and we would often talk and laugh about football after the lesson . Looking at the League table, you can see how the TV money benefited the top clubs and eventually destroyed real competition.
Another good thing for United that came from those games is that they noticed how good the unassuming Denis Irwin was.
I found your videos on youtube and I really liked them. I´m brazilian and a big fan of english football, the best league in the world. So it's great to know more about football in england. My son is an oldham fan, it's sad to see the team in this situation.
In my first season supporting Barnsley in the 1990/91 season Oldham won what is now the Championship with what was a great team.
They genuinely were a team that you feared playing against.
They had a great following, great players, manager and that plastic pitch seemed to give them an aura of invincibility at that level too!
I couldn’t believe it when they got relegated to the conference and I found out that was actually the last promotion that Oldham had!
Great video, I really enjoyed this and very informative. More videos of teams in the lower leagues please! 😀
Thank you. Lots more coming soon!! 🙌🏼
Good that you can get into stadiums now. Great stuff as always
Another fantastic, informative video! Your passion for the clubs you visit is wonderful to see and I hope we can welcome you back to Middlesbrough at some point this season, I will be buying you a pint!
I'm a Stockport fan and we spent 11 years in non league football, we spent 6 of those years in regional football, it wasn't the disaster everyone thinks, we still had our team and we still travelled the country watching them, we met some great people, Nuneaton fans and Bradford Park Avenue fans love their clubs just as much as Man Utd fans do, it's a new journey enjoy it.
I've got a trumpet.
I grew up not far from Oldham and although I grew up a Man Utd supporter, I had a soft spot for Oldham and would keep an eye on how they got on, so sad to see their fall, but I guess the only way is up now!
I also remember when I was in primary school and got a tour of boundary park and was blown away, as that wasn’t that long after the glory days of the premier league, such a shame!
Great video!
Really sad to witness Oldham's demise over the decades. My first visit to White Hart Lane was in April 1993 when I saw us bash Oldham 4-1, and that was a PL game. I do think they stayed up but went down the season after that. I hope their fortunes change soon.
Been waiting for you to cover us, cheers mate. Keep the faith
Not an Oldham fan but I used to like watching them when I was a kid, would be nice for them to come back into the football league. I remember all those old kits from when they were in the top flight.
Interesting to see the standings in the league after the first premier league season with Coventry, Wimbledon, QPR and Ipswich all there.
I wonder if so much external money hadn’t come into the game how the table would look now !?
Great video again mate, love all your work !
I was at Oldham from 85-90 when they had the plastic pitch. It's so sad what has happened to them. I really hope they recover and get back up the football pyramid.
Great video Sam, and a story well told! I have a private collection of match worn Oldham shirts from the premier league, the club donated the three strips from the last season in the EFL to compare them side by side , great photo!
A great way of telling Oldhams' sad story, nice work. As a Southend United fan, it would be great to see a video like this around us with our severe demise over recent years. From back-to-back relegations dropping out of the football league for the first time ever, the chairman confronting the fans & having a hot dog thrown at him, winding up order after winding up order, a new stadium promised going on well over 20 years, the list goes.
Southend would be an interesting video; I can remember them in the second tier where they did pretty well.
I laughed at the hotdog thrown at him part...🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
And dorking wanderers being in the same league has both Southend and Oldham is insane
The list does go on. These chairman are tossers
Up the O's
Sounds like Gillingham (they’ll be non league next season)
Awesome stuff, stumbled across your channel, subscribed. Love the history of football clubs, especially English clubs.
Timley video Sam ! I hope to go to Oldham v Scunthorpe in a couple of weeks, good work mate !
As an American who's fallen in love with European football, your videos are both entertaining and educational. Thanks for all your great content!
Can you even imagine a major league American team either in football, baseball or hockey being relgated out of the major leagues haha? No mechanism at all for that to happen.
Good video, man. Subscribed
Take heart Oldham fans.We at Barrow waited decades to get back into league two so it can be achieved.
oldham will be back
Chuffed to bits when Barrow got back and even more chuffed when they survived the Covid-hit season(without fans). All the best from a Huddersfield Town fan.
At 4:46 behind you at the bottom of the street were you can see newer style houses stood Pine Mill. I lived on Barton Street from 1976 till the mid nineties that faced the mill. Great video!!
Great video and massive respect to the Oldham fan who has seen his team play at 176 different grounds. I have done over 80 with Walsall which i thought was a lot but 176 must be some kind of record with the same team
Thanks Jon
With being A Latics fan, I've had the chance, to follow the Team all over the country, From Workington to Wembley and I've got some fantastic memories, and met a lot of great supporters along the way.
My motto is support your local team through thick and thin.👍
Great vid as always.
Nice video, often wondered where the Pine Villa came from. When I was growing up in the 70s Oldham had a shop on King Street in Oldham called “The Latics Tangerine Shop” I went in once and it was pretty threadbare. A few programmes and the odd knitted scarf. Boundary Park is unique in that there is a big slope from the Rochdale Road end, they also had one of worst plastic pitches even by plastic pitch standards! I’ve been to games where a drop kick from the keeper would bounce seemingly as high as the floodlights. Happy days.
Nice one for covering my clubs situation mate 👏
Love these videos! If you are in Birmingham it would be great to do Birmingham St George f.c ..keep up the great work
We hope, but man, you have now achieved 11K subscribers in the last 1 month, absolute respect 🙏🔥
I was at Ipswich when we won promotion to the old first division under Joe Royle. I was there last season when we got relegated to the National League. We had two particularly poor owners :one I think is in prison, but we look forward with optimism to a fresh start under Frank Rothwell. We had sons of Jamie Carragher and Richie Wellens playing this Saturday in John Sheridans last match as manager and fortunately managed a very late winner. Certainly we are now getting a decent gate and the standard of football is higher than I expected.One of our substitutes on Saturday looks about fourteen and really small...but he can play football. Hope he grows a little.
Great video mate,
Cracking video, maybe a video about Met. Police FC would be an interesting watch
Glad to see footy adventures getting to my club, things are a bit down atm but the future is bright!
Hiya PJ, have you watched the HITC vlog about Oldham Athletic, its well worth a view
@@paulguise698 I have not, I’ll have to give it a watch
@@pjschaaf414 Hiya PJ, can you like and Subscribe to HITC, Alfie does some good vlogs
Portsmouth,my team,could have easily been non-league.
I feel for Oldham. 😢
A great vid Sam. Seems ironic somehow that the Latics are now in the same division as Gateshead...football, funny old game.
Still time, hope not though because I like Pompey … proper club (from a Birmingham Fan)
I'm an Oldham fan been waiting for you to go to boundary park for a while now... We will be bk 💙
great vid. very well done keep it up
What a pleasant change to watch a fact based football video... thank you and well done.
Oldham were the team that gave my club glasgow rangers their greatest ever goalkeeper and my hero his start in his footballing career andy goram went on to have a fantastic career and if it wasn't for oldham he may never have been noticed as goalkeeper so big thanks to Oldham for that
I am fairly sure Andys Son was at Oldhams last game on Saturday with his youngster wearing a club Jersey with that famous name GORAM emblazioned on the back t
Only needed a point or so from the last 3 games to win the league in 1915. Fucked it up. OAFC - spoiling Saturdays since 1895.
Great watch. Thanks
Sad to see Oldham in non league, but they have a decent owner now.
We (Leyton Orient) gave their protest campaign plenty of support when they played at ours last season. Not very long since we were in the same position.
An Orient video would be good.
We are playing you tomorrow, not holding out much hope after the fantastic start you have had.
Grimsby was a down and out club, They went from the old division four up to division two, Just missing out on promotion, to the old Division one, They went all the way back down to division four then back up again, So with the right Manager and backing Oldham can and will rise again.
Yes you did, thankyou Orient!
Love this channel
Excellent. Thank you.
Chesterfield fan here, good luck for the season Oldham Athletic,
Why not try Wrexham the oldest team in Wales. Really enjoyed the video by the way love the content. Its a fall from grace whats happened to Oldham but now they face the task of getting back the football league. Keep up the great content 👏 👍
Aren't Wrexham non-league these days? I can remember them knocking Arsenal out of the FA Cup.
@@geoffpoole483 Yes but I think they'll get promoted this year. Theirs a TV series called welcome to Wrexham why not check it out.
@@geoffpoole483 Hiya Geoff, the season previous Arsenal finished 1st and Wrexham finished 92nd out of 92
As a wrexham fan I'd enjoy The Racecourse ground getting showcased , the oldest international football ground in the world , that was nearly destroyed along with the club by Alex Hamilton
Ah,Ryan Reynolds co-owned club. Wales needs a North Wales Football League club. Don't let Swansea City,Cardiff City and Newport County steal the Robin's glory!
Love youre videoes!
Love from norway 🔥
Oldham will come back hopefully, first went to boundary park in 1974 in a pre season friendly against my team Blackpool…jimmy Frizzle was the manager then and l really hope they come again !!.
If you haven't done already, I'd like to see you do a video on Scarborough. I'm not a supporter (don't think I've ever actually been to Scarborough!) but they were also former football league and have slowly made their way back up.
In fact, Chester and Halifax would also be good topics!
EDIT: turns out you have already. Added to my watchlist!
Been there a few times over the years , I am a stoke fan , can remember the plastic pitch and a man called roger palmer , always scored against us . I remember they pushed Man Utd all the way in the fa cup semis in the early 90s . The old man what a hero , proper fan not like all the glory hunting wankers you get today. Great video , let’s hope Oldham get back to the football league asap ⚽️⚽️👍
Roger Palmer is an Oldham Legend. Apparently, he smokes marijuana.
Great video as always mate, you off to Milan for the Nations League next week?
Great video as always. Ipswich used to play in the Broom Hill area of town and used to get changed the the nearby Inkerman pub which is still there today near the double roundabout on Norwich Road
Visiting my brother in law who stays in shaw and we travelled down from Dunfermline to see him.Hes impressed with ur episode about oldham.When r u going bac to see Kelty Hearts.Drive passed boundary Park yesterday and just bac from man City ground lol
Come to Sutton United. Founded in 1898 finally reached the football league by winning the National League in 20/21. In our first season as a football league club we just missed out on the playoff even though we started the seazon as favourites for relegation. We are currently 10th in League 2.
Yeah, I often look at the non league tables and feel very sad that there are many clubs who were once in the top flight or just below. I hope these clubs get some consolation from the fact that many of us do remember and wish them all the best in their attempts to regain their former glory.
Oldham used to be a really good team I remember watching them against us at anfield in the fa cup I think it was when Paul dickov was in charge and a few seasons before they knocked us out the cup at there ground.. scary how quick a team can fall
What a great video 🦉
I feel for Oldham fans. But a far more spectacular fall from grace was experienced by Burnley who went from being champions of England in 1959/60 to almost dropping out of Division 4 in 1986/87, winning their last match. If they'd drawn, they'd have been bottom.
I have a connection with Oldham as a Lancs/Yorks hybrid, my father being from Oldham. In fact, he used to tell me how the Latics got 30,000 and the RL team 20,000 watching them. He would be 110 if he was living, so we're going back to when he was a kid, before he moved to Skipton.
Great research ,
Loved the video any chance u could do peterborough utd as a supporter would love to see there history
Used to jump the 24 bus and go watching Oldham when City wasnt playing, went to Wembley v forest in the early 90s
Good team when Joe Royal was there and they had Andy Ritchie We got PaulvWarhurst from em too and changed him into a striker from a full back and He was called up to play up front for England but got injured
What a player Andy Ritchie was.
I am 65 years old and support Cardiff, I remember as a lad going to Ninian park to watch the team, there sere so many big teams in Div 2 then (pre premiership) that are now in the depths. Oldham athletic, Leyton Orient, Portsmouth, Plymouth etc etc
Look at this guys eyes, he is such a football head, passionate!!
I’m from Oldham and have supported them all my life, it was sad seeing them go down and all our star players left, but even now I still love the team
You wouldn’t believe who has played for them
My team Banbury United were originally called Banbury Spencer, they were the works team from the Spencer corset factory in the town and were only renamed Banbury United in the 1960's . Excuse the pun but it only became Banbury United when a consortium of local businessmen rescued the club from going "bust" ( get it corset - bust 😅)
Middlesbrough were formed in The Albert pub on Linthorpe Road which just recently closed as a pub.
Hopefully see them back in the EFL soon!
As a Hammer of course they were a thorn in the early 90s , especially the league cup semi!
But I still remember their players and things like yesterday. Rick Holden, Mike Milligan, Frankie Bunn and his 6 goals, that Bovis kit, the plastic pitch. Shame to see them down there but they’ll be back.
Do something about Deportivo La Coruña! Champions of Spain In 2000, third tier in 2020! Get over there for a game and do a video on their disastrous 20 years!
Dagenham and Redbridge was my local team, not long ago was at Wembley watching them get promotion to the first division, first match in there was at Hillsborough. Now back in the national League 😛
My first ever footy match, was Oldham Vs Bristol Rovers…it was 4-3 hours o Oldham and I must have been 6/7 years old…if not younger!
Good old Andy Ritchy…as well 👌🏻💪🏻❤️
Right at the end, poor old Scunthorpe rooted at the bottom of the table - they're in freefall
but also Torquay and Aldershgot floundering, will they ever return to the football League?
They were regulars years ago.
Love that pretty much every club is formed in a pub
They were founder members of the Premier League and the Fourth Division, but only by default. Teams that were relegated from the First Division in 1992 missed out on the Premier League. Where as Oldham gained enough points and survived for two seasons.
They gained their place in the newly formed Fourth Division because the new division was made up of the 12 lowest teams in the Third Division North and South table at the end of the 1957-58 season.
Ironically, Scunthorpe and Lindsey United finished as Champions of the last Third Division North table. They now sit bottom of the National League tables.
Oldham were relegated in 1994 and dropped into the National League in 2022 (28 years), but that is what happens when you stretch your finances beyond your budget.
Similar financial issues plagued Luton Town who played-in and dropped out of the First Division in it’s last season: 1992 (before it became the Premier League) and dropped out of the Football League in 2009. (17 years)
Of course, First Division and Premier League rewards were nothing like what they are now…
When Luton first dropped into the non-league, I am sure most of our supporters believed we would immediately bounce back… but it took us a few seasons and we learned to respect the league. The true fans are the ones that stay with their club through thick and thin and support their club no matter what league they are playing in.
Go to roots hall, one of my favourite away days …
I remember Oldham at Roker Park, Sunderland in the early 80s when we were both in the top flight.
I remember that Norwich team that finished 3rd in the first premier league season qualifying for the uefa cup for the following season & they beat Bayern Munich away!
The Torquay boys were the first non league team Oldham has played in a league game. And I’m proud
I think Notts County went from fourth div to first div, then back down to fourth all in consecutive seasons. Or close to that. Would be a good story.
I think Northampton did it as well
April 2023. Just to say playing in the National league hasnt been too bad. With an excellent new owner Frank Rothwell we have seen a turn around. WE struggled at first but have now reached the safety of mid table with consecutive wins. Wrexham from this league will soon be rising up the EFL like Stockport. It will be tough getting out of this league but you have to be optimistic.
Hey mate, be interesting if you do Walsall for west midlands teams?
I'm amazed there haven't been many more teams do an "Oldham".
I'm more amazed more haven't gone bust- but they will.
Britain, population 67million, has 92 professional league clubs, and probably another dozen or so non league clubs who are all professional.
It's amazing any man between 18 and 30 does any job other than being a professional footballer.
America, population 365million, has 32 NFL teams.
You don't have to be a maths genius to see there's something not quite right.
Take a look at Grimsby Town in the early years had some 1st division action
I remember Oldham Athletic from the 1994 Premier League Sticker album. Good times.
Chelsea FC was founded in The Rising Sun pub in 1905. The pub is now called The Butcher’s Hook and is opposite Stanford Bridge…
You definitely have to come back up for falkirk vs Dunfermline tommorow
Looks like Oldham will be in the conference north next season (along with Scunthorpe).
Hiya Sam, here's the 2 Manchester clubs not far from Oldham spending Millions per year, here's Oldham who haven't a pot to piss in, You should do a vlog like this about Carlisle United, I've watched HITC vlog about Oldham many times and I encourage everyone to watch it, the same as Notts County and Portsmouth, this is Choppy in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England
Would love to see a video like this with watford.
Been thinking about doing Watford for ages. Thanks for watching!!
@@FootyAdventures loving the videos, great work.
Adelphi Hotel, Sheffield is where Yorkshire cricket club, Sheffield Wednesday and Sheffield United were all formed ….
I'm an exile Mancunian what lives in Scarborough now. I supported Manchester City of 40 years. My last City game was 3 seasons ago. First game of the season v Norwich we were reigning Champions and the atmosphere was pitful. And nearly 50 pound for the privilege. That was it for me. Sick and tired of paying ludicrous ticket prices, sat with corporates and Daytrippers who only jumped on to football after Euro 96 because it became also fashionable. Fed up with silly kick off days and times to accommodate Sky and TNT sport's. It was done with an heavy heart and maybe living in 115 Mile away made the decision easier. But it ain't the game I grew up with stood on the kippax at Maine Road in the 80s,90s even early 00s. I watch none league Scarborough now love it. So Oldham's best time to be in the premier League. Was when they was in the premier League. When it still belonged to the working classes. It's now just a circus, Corporate, none entity!!!
18 Dec 93 took my son who is now 36 to his first footy match - cov v Oldham 1-1 Roy wegerlee scored for cov - we are Leeds fans but his grandparents lived near high field Rd - in the 90s they had decent players MOT
so did oldham have any other names ? or have they always been called oldham ath??
Oldham definitely leveraged their plastic pitch advantage. One bounce between each goal kick and scorch marks with a sliding tackle. Opposing teams needed to work out their tactics or get overrun.