Benjamin Evans

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Oldham Athletic U20
12 Mar 2030
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Benjamin Evans

101 Edition

The Oldham Athletic Chronicle

3 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Oldham Athletic put Thomas Foster on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Oldham Athletic boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Market

Oldham Athletic turn down Crewe Alexandra for Kieron Morris

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Billy Waters is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Oldham Athletic is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Tempers go at Oldham Athletic

Leon Chiwome was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Words at Oldham Athletic training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luke Hannant is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Jamie Robson

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad

Oldham Athletic lose Benjamin Evans

14 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Market

Oldham Athletic sign Indiana Pedder, one for the future

Indiana Pedder is 19, 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.

In brief

Back issues
97 Edition

The Oldham Athletic Chronicle

5 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Enso González settles it late for Oldham Athletic

The 87th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Enso González decided nobody was going anywhere. Accrington Stanley had no time left to answer.

Boardroom

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Oldham Athletic

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Market

Billy Waters is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Oldham Athletic is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Tempers go at Oldham Athletic

Luke Hannant was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Adam Mayor 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.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Enso González

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match

Enso González sends Oldham Athletic past Accrington Stanley

It finished 1‑0, and it was Enso González’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Oldham Athletic.

Squad

Oliver Hammond stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Oliver Hammond and Oldham Athletic agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Player ratings

Enso González in the eights

A performance of 8.07 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

In brief