The brass bands play and feet start to pound
According to brassbandresults.co.uk (there’s a website I never knew existed), a contest promoted by Oldham Athletic Supporters Club took...
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Arlene Finnigan
- Aug 6
- 3 min
Latics Fans Are Free (To Wear Sunscreen)
Ladies and gentlemen of the season 2022-23, wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The...
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Arlene Finnigan
- Jul 30
- 4 min
FREE AT LAST! FREE AT LAST! THANK GOD ALMIGHTY!
It happened. It finally happened. The day we’d all been waiting for. After over four years of statements, financial mismanagement,...
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Arlene Finnigan
- Jul 23
- 3 min
It's Coming Home
It's dragging on a bit, this takeover, isn’t it? I wish they’d get on with it, I need the space in my fridge, it’s a pain in the arse...
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Arlene Finnigan
- Jul 16
- 3 min
See I've already waited too long....
It seems daft really, doesn’t it. We all ended last season utterly despondent, not expecting anything other than a demoralising season in...
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Arlene Finnigan
- Jul 9
- 4 min
Kick like a girl, down pints like a girl
Goodbye, Grotton's Rose. It's been quite a week for arrogant arseholes who pretend to despise football fans as plebs getting forced out...
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Arlene Finnigan
- Jul 2
- 5 min
Good times for a change?
What a week, comrades. What. A. Fucking. Week. And I thought Sunday was going to be the feel-good story. If you ignore every other word...
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Arlene Finnigan
- Jun 25
- 2 min
Rewind The Film
I could talk this week about your friend and mine, Andy Burnham, spearheading a taskforce to give fans an active role in the future...
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Arlene Finnigan
- Jun 18
- 3 min
Rebellion (Lies! Lies!)
On Thursday, I tweeted "In danger of having nothing to blog about this week. Baz is gonna put out a statement at 11pm on Friday night,...
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Arlene Finnigan
- Jun 11
- 5 min
This is my truth, tell me yours
Oh it’s good to have him back, isn’t it? The eloquence, the clarity, the integrity, the honesty. How ever did we get through those long...
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Arlene Finnigan
- Jun 4
- 4 min
The Curle Who Wanted To Be God
Been a pretty quiet week by Latics standards, hasn't it? Boring, almost. I won't recap the interview with the FLG in any detail, but...
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Arlene Finnigan
- May 28
- 6 min
Don't Let The Sh*te Divide Us
BRACE YOURSELVES FOR SOME CONJECTURE AND CRITICISM, BITCHES! Well the close season is proving to be every bit as chilled as I expected....
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Arlene Finnigan
- May 21
- 3 min
We're not your sinners, our voices are for real
Hiya Barry! Thought I was gonna have nothing to write about this week but God bless you, I should have known I could rely on you to...
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Arlene Finnigan
- May 14
- 3 min
Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
Felt a bit like a funeral, didn’t it? Maybe a gangster funeral, given the amount of police. Our message was heard - and seen, thanks to...
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Arlene Finnigan
- May 7
- 4 min
Welcome to the dead zone, it’s a circus full of whores
Did anyone go the circus at Boundary Park over the May Day weekend? Yeah I know we were away at Tranmere. Lol. Bit on the nose, that,...
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Arlene Finnigan
- Apr 29
- 6 min
I look to the future, it makes me cry
There we are, then. 115 years in the Football League. It took the Bollock Brothers 4 years to flush that down the toilet. With two games...
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Arlene Finnigan
- Apr 23
- 3 min
Don't need you to tell me we're going down
Oh Fortuna, blind goddess, you have been busy with the wheel of our fate these last few months, haven’t you. From the hopelessness after...
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- Apr 17
- 6 min
This is how it felt?
DISCLAIMER: What follows is a completely self-indulgent post about my love and lamentation for Oldham Athletic. If you have no interest...
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Arlene Finnigan
- Apr 15
- 4 min
I know the truth, and I know what you're thinking
Football can be cruel, can't it. Another woeful refereeing performance at Port Vale did us no favours, and we're clinging on to safety by...
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Arlene Finnigan
- Apr 9
- 2 min
To steal what we never could own
Greetings from Northern Ireland! (At least that’s where we’re supposed to be when this gets published, Manchester Airport clusterfuck...
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