Fans at loggerheads with an unpopular owner, protests, transfer embargo, the agonising prospect of becoming the first former Premier League club to exit the Football League, and now - currently - managerless. For it serves as a reminder to those who lived through Oldham’s rise to the Premier League under Joe Royle just how great life following Latics was, on the 30th anniversary of Royle’s revolution. While for those who came afterwards, the achievements of the past could well offer hope for a brighter future. “I used to cover Oldham for the MEN in 2013-14 and I got to know Gordon Lowton,” he said. I don’t think there’s another football club on the planet like that, that it’s been that miserable supporting them.

Source: The Times December 15, 2021 19:51 UTC