bilsborrow

Tony Carss everytime I watched him play it was 100% commitment.

 

Also loved his rant against M***E when he left.

Bilsborrow

I nominate Tommy Williamson

I found Latics by being a typical glory hunter, my dad was never into football, as a kid i grew up and followed Liverpool, they were the best and i didn't know better, to be honest i can't ever recall ever really knowing about Oldham Athletic. When i was 11 or 12 my step dad took me to my first ever football match, Bury v Fulham, i think it finished 0-0 all i remember was being bored out of my skull. Then it was around 3 years later, i was 14 or 15, and my mate's sister's boyfriend who was a Forest fan was taking my mate to watch Oldham v Southampton the carling cup replay, at the time i didn't know about Latics previous exploits in the cup that year. My mate asked me i'f i'd go with him, so i did along with two more friends. They took me into the Chaddy and we all stood somewhere at the back, i remember the noise made hairs on the back of my neck stand up. We won the game 2-0 but the result for me wasn't important i was hooked, this was nothing like the Bury v Fulham match i'd witnessed. I think i went to two more games that season, then the season after i went to pretty much every home game and witnessed our promotion to the top flight, all the games i went to were with my two mates, and every moment we talked about football and Oldham.

 

My two mates have now become armchair Man U supporters, yet i stayed true to Latics, so i now either attend games on my own, or i'd take my 16 year old daughter if she fancies it, but lately think she's gone off the football, tomorrow i'll be taking my 5 year old daughter to her first game.

I started to watch Latics in 1934 Due to ill health and the fact that I live 40 miles away I now only visit B P on odd ocas sions I am registered at OWTB under the name of bilsborrowi

The system with the microchip inserting in the ball was good, when the ball crossed the line fully it would put a message onto the ref's watch saying goal. it showed them testing it out & how the ball definately crossed the line beofre the signal came up.