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Until Saka I was never happy
Is England’s name on the trophy? Let’s not jinx it. But despite everything, they’re two wins away from it coming home. The team needed...
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Arlene Finnigan
Jul 65 min read
It'll be alright, we'll turn out just fine
A few years ago, I read Inferno by Dante Alighieri. I don’t recommend it, it drags, it’s tedious and self-indulgent. Seriously, people...
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Arlene Finnigan
Jun 226 min read
I think I've seen this film before
“Fully expect a cagey performance and narrow win for England against Serbia (and hope against hope for no unpleasantness in the stands),...
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Arlene Finnigan
Jun 154 min read
Europe is our playground
It seems almost pointless to look at who the contenders to win Euro 2024 might be, given that it’s a foregone conclusion that England...
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Arlene Finnigan
Jun 83 min read
Take a sad song and make it better
I didn’t watch the Champions’ League final last Saturday. Had family stuff on. My brother, who’s a Liverpool fan and still hasn’t fully...
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Arlene Finnigan
Jun 13 min read
We ain't no hooligans, there ain't no football song
Happy June 1st! The start of Euros month! Have you all got your wallcharts up? I have. 43 years of age. Not arsed. There’s something...
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willholdaway808
May 254 min read
Wake up BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
The fans forum this week was an opportunity for Micky Mellon, Darren Royle, Gary Brabin and Luke Rothwell to explain exactly how the...
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Arlene Finnigan
May 115 min read
Don't you know, pump it up, the Bulls are going up
Ah, football can be brilliant, can't it. Well it can for literally every team other than Oldham Athletic. Hope Street in Prescot was the...
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Arlene Finnigan
May 45 min read
I'm loving Cables instead
Well, I was hoping to be going to a play off final this weekend, and I am. I’m zipping up my boots and going back to my roots. 📷 Paul...
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Arlene Finnigan
Apr 274 min read
It's just that we've been losing so long
Don’t be sad that it happened. Be glad that it’s over. Having fucked up any chance of making the play offs, but guaranteed that we’d...
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Arlene Finnigan
Apr 205 min read
To say the least, oh, truly disappointed
You, there! Latics! Fuck all the way off! And when you get there, fuck off some more! A few days before our trip to Oxford City, it was...
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Arlene Finnigan
Apr 133 min read
The frustration it renders me hateful
When the fixtures came out last summer, one game in particular jumped out at me. “YIIRRRSS WE’RE GONNA WIN THE LEAGUE AT HOME AGAINST...
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Arlene Finnigan
Apr 53 min read
So drink, drink, drink and be ill tonight
Well. That was utterly fucking shit, wasn’t it. Easter ruined. Birthday ruined. Fuck off, Oldham. The first half performance against...
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Arlene Finnigan
Mar 293 min read
Why can't you see this boat is sinking?
Abandon ship. HMS Piss the League has abjectly failed in its mission. It doesn’t look like the lifeboats will make it to the playoffs....
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Arlene Finnigan
Mar 234 min read
Death of a (promotion) party
Are you relieved that I’m here to write the blog this week? Were you worried that I’d be unable to after being knocked all over the gaff...
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Arlene Finnigan
Mar 163 min read
La Tristesse Durera (Scream "Where was Sai?")
“To Aldershot today, then, where the capacity is just 7100, so exactly the kind of Southern Wee Guy ground where our players tend to...
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Arlene Finnigan
Mar 93 min read
Just can't wait to get on the road again
For any normal club in our position, two back-to-back home games in a week would be something to look forward to, a great opportunity to...
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Arlene Finnigan
Mar 23 min read
And you want to call your mother, and say "mother, I can never play at home again"
I guess we should have seen the events of the last week coming. But I really, really thought we'd rise to the occasion last Saturday....
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Arlene Finnigan
Feb 244 min read
We left the North, we travelled South, we beat a tiny club and we can't help the way we feel
“If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same....” So said Rudyard Kipling, in his famous poem...
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Arlene Finnigan
Feb 174 min read
And then a boat came sailing towards them, it was a joy they could not believe
What a week, comrades. We'll come on to our chairman's amazing achievement in a bit, but credit to everyone who managed the feat of...
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