Billy Waters

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Oldham Athletic
28 Sep 2026
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Marked for Billy Waters

8 Edition

The Oldham Athletic Chronicle

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match16 Sep 2026

Oldham Athletic bow out of the cup

Oxford United go through and Oldham Athletic go home, 1‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

No sign of nerves from Luca Williams-Barnett at 17 — 8.18

The hardest thing about being 17 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Luca Williams-Barnett did not need any: 8.18, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Mathew Hudson 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.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Calum Kavanagh

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Mathew Hudson 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.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Words at Oldham Athletic training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luca Williams-Barnett 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.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Pedro Dinis signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Pedro Dinis commits to Oldham Athletic for another 3 years.

Match19 Sep 2026

No goals between Oldham Athletic and Salford City

Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Salford City will be the happier side with the point.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Off the bench and decisive: Kane Drummond

The substitution nobody applauded turned out to be the whole story. Oldham Athletic were going nowhere until he came on.

In brief

Back issues
6 Edition

The Oldham Athletic Chronicle

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match5 Sep 2026

Oldham Athletic tear Cambridge United apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Cambridge United, and it could have been more.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

Luca Williams-Barnett could not have asked for more on his first appearance — 8.08

Debuts are survived rather than enjoyed. This one was enjoyed: 8.08, 1 goals, and a manager already being asked whether he starts again next week.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

Both of them Calum Kavanagh's — 8.36

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.36, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market7 Sep 2026

Billy Waters 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.

The terraces7 Sep 2026

The crowd has taken to Calum Kavanagh

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.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Luke Hannant 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.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Rhys Chadwick 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.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Luke Hannant

Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market7 Sep 2026

Still no ink between Oldham Athletic and Harvey Rodgers

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Oldham Athletic, another week without a signature from Harvey Rodgers.

In brief

4 Edition

The Oldham Athletic Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad24 Aug 2026

Mathew Hudson 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.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Luke Hannant 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.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Ryan Woods 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.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Luke Hannant runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Oldham Athletic pick somebody else ahead of Kane Drummond

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Market24 Aug 2026

Billy Waters is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Oldham Athletic has been clear about where Billy Waters stands, which is more than many ever get.

In brief