Calum Kavanagh

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Oldham Athletic
31 Aug 2026
Monday
Process

Marked for Calum Kavanagh

4 Edition

The Oldham Athletic Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Josh Kay damages knee ligaments — 89 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 89 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

Callum Maycock arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Callum Maycock has, at Oldham Athletic, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad

Mathew Hudson stands alone

6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Transfer targets

An offer of $540.0K for Ruben Curley

Oldham Athletic have gone to Stoke City with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Squad

Words exchanged at Oldham Athletic

Ryan Woods and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

The dugout

Mathew Hudson gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings

Tom Conlon in the eights

A performance of 8.00 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Match

No time for Crawley Town to settle

The goal that put Crawley Town ahead was still being replayed on the concourse when Oldham Athletic equalised, 4 minutes later. Leads are only worth what you do with them.

Match

Oldham Athletic rescue it on 92 minutes

Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 92. Chesterfield had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Oldham Athletic Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Josh Kay

96 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Oldham Athletic lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Transfer targets

Oldham Athletic make their move for Shea Connor

$320.0K on the table at Middlesbrough. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Squad

Words exchanged at Oldham Athletic

Kane Taylor and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Player ratings

Kieron Morris ran the middle of the pitch — 6.78

He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 12 combined actions and a mark of 6.78, and not one of them will make a highlights package.

Squad

Manny Monthé falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Market

Talks stall between Oldham Athletic and Calum Kavanagh

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Market

Oldham Athletic sign Rogan Ravenhill, one for the future

Rogan Ravenhill is 20, and Oldham Athletic have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Squad

No place for Jean Galindo in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Oldham Athletic are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

The dugout

Half-satisfied: Timothy Williams on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

In brief