The Oldham Athletic Chronicle
Match10 Mar 2029
The run at home goes on for Oldham Athletic
28 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Match10 Mar 2029
16 unbeaten for Oldham Athletic
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 16 matches without defeat is a foundation Oldham Athletic did not have in the autumn.
Market12 Mar 2029
Francesco Rillo asks to leave Oldham Athletic
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market12 Mar 2029
Only the photograph left for Adam Richardson
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Adam Richardson will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Oldham Athletic the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad12 Mar 2029
Words exchanged at Oldham Athletic
Jed Ward 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.
Squad12 Mar 2029
Charlie Dinsdale is the real thing at 21
A season average of 7.00 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Oldham Athletic know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
Squad12 Mar 2029
Oldham Athletic lose Stephen James
46 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad12 Mar 2029
200 appearances for Jamie Shackleton
200 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.
The dugout12 Mar 2029
Damari Daley 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.
In brief
- Player ratings Claudio Echeverri beats them one at a time
- The dugout Rio Hammond left out for the big one
- Market Talks stall between Oldham Athletic and Tom Conlon