Benjamin Carter

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496 Edition

The Oldham Athletic Chronicle

28 Jan 2036
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad28 Jan 2036

Leo McCormick keeps Oldham Athletic in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 11 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Boardroom28 Jan 2036

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.

Match26 Jan 2036

Nowhere to hide for Oldham Athletic

0‑3 against Cheltenham Town, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Squad28 Jan 2036

Leo McCormick 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.

Transfer targets28 Jan 2036

Derby County tell Oldham Athletic: Rayan Bennabi is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Boardroom28 Jan 2036

No signings allowed at Oldham Athletic

The manager may talk to whoever he likes and may pay nobody. A squad survives a window like this by borrowing, by promoting, and by hoping the injuries land somewhere else.

Boardroom28 Jan 2036

Nobody left the Oldham Athletic dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

Market28 Jan 2036

Oldham Athletic and Ryan Teleku are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

The dugout28 Jan 2036

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑3 Interim Coach left the room before anybody could ask which.

In brief

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481 Edition

The Oldham Athletic Chronicle

15 Oct 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market15 Oct 2035

Bojidar Bojinov hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Oldham Athletic can pretend not to have heard.

Squad15 Oct 2035

Ryan Teleku 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.

The dugout15 Oct 2035

The manager makes an example of Ryan Teleku

“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.

Squad15 Oct 2035

Nazar Ponomarenko signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Nazar Ponomarenko commits to Oldham Athletic for another 2 years.

Squad15 Oct 2035

Benjamin Carter 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.

Squad15 Oct 2035

The formation has left Nazar Ponomarenko behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Oldham Athletic will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

The dugout15 Oct 2035

Stephen White is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

The dugout15 Oct 2035

Kane Drummond knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Kane Drummond trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market15 Oct 2035

The Thiago Domínguez question follows Oldham Athletic around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Thiago Domínguez’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief