The Oldham Athletic Chronicle
Squad31 May 2027
Michael Morris damages knee ligaments — 20 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 20 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.
Player ratings31 May 2027
Luke Hannant was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 35. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad31 May 2027
A fracture rules Kieron Morris out for 130 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Oldham Athletic will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match29 May 2027
The wait goes on for Oldham Athletic
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match29 May 2027
The goals have deserted Oldham Athletic
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Oldham Athletic can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad31 May 2027
Aaron Lewis in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Oldham Athletic this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 May 2027
A row about effort at Oldham Athletic
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Renato Maceió was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout31 May 2027
No hiding place for Jamie Robson
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jamie Robson, and the manager let it.
The dugout31 May 2027
No place for Nesta Guinness-Walker on the big day
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Oldham Athletic pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody on the pitch touched Aaron Lewis
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- Match No goals between Oldham Athletic and Harrogate Town