The Oldham Athletic Chronicle
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
John Clarke is out at Oldham Athletic
Four paragraphs on the club website, none of them about football. The board thanked him, wished him well, and had the search under way before the page went up.
Squad21 Aug 2028
A fracture rules Mike Fondop out for 109 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.
Squad21 Aug 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for James Dadge
36 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.
Squad21 Aug 2028
A one-man rearguard from Harry Evans
There were 10 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
George Davies steps up at Oldham Athletic for now
“Somebody picks the team on Saturday. This week it is me, and that is as far as I have thought.” No promises were made in either direction, which is how these usually begin.
Transfer targets21 Aug 2028
Too dear: Oldham Athletic walk away from Alfie Devine
$2.6M was the most the club would pay and Preston were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Market21 Aug 2028
James Dadge 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.
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
5 academy graduates step up at Oldham Athletic
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Mike Fondop 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.
In brief
- The terraces The crowd has taken to Harry Evans
- Market Samuel Harris steps up from the Oldham Athletic academy
- Market David Cunningham steps up from the Oldham Athletic academy