Huangjoe

If it is who we think it is, the point I knew Newsnight was on the slide was when I saw him being interviewed on it described as an army veteran, when even the most cursory of background checks would have revealed him to be a deranged right wing loon.

The "military career" was largely fantasy, joined up then sent home after 2 weeks in Afghanistan after, er, threatening to kill his battery sargeant...

Should add that 2nd half so far away from the end we were defending that it was hard to judge, but he looked commanding from what seemed like a distance of about 2 mile away!

He looked a bit shaky 1st half and was a bit fortunate with one of their corners which he flapped at. Second half he was immense. He's a young lad, will make mistakes and have the odd horror show. Definitely got talent though and to come out with that second half performance shows some character too. Likely to be a good un given time.

I know a man, recently retired, lifelong fan, season ticket holder, lived and worked in Oldham all his life, ran a local business. He'd be ideal. I'll be seeing him later and will ask. I am 99% sure he will have no intention whatsoever to get involved! To be honest, it's a bit like the Speaker of the House of Commons isn't it, an appropriate candidate has to be dragged to the chair.

To be fair, when you see the quote in context, he wasn't really comparing Ched Evans' plight to that of the Hillsborough Families. He was trying to say that Court findings can sometimes be overturned or turn out to be wrong, but did it in a very clumsy and cack-handed way. Retraction and apology sufficient in my opinion. Having said that, the point he was making was a bit of a duff one because as things stand the verdict of the Court is clear.

A plea to the Board from the powerless - my blog piece on Latics signing Ched Evans.

No, it reads "we do believe that Ched Evans has a right to work", although I agree that it is possible to be against us signing him and not necessarily agree with the wording of the petition.

Online petitions are unlikely to change anything. The best form of protest would be a peaceful pitch invasion followed by a co-ordinated exodus after kick off against Doncaster on Saturday. Dreadful day for the club, I agree wholeheartedly with the opinions expressed on the Ernie flag blog.

As is her dad who is funding his continuing attempts to appeal conviction. Just one of a number of things in the story that seem bizarre to most people. My own view is that where a footballer commits an offence, serves his punishment, and shows remorse he should be allowed to continue his career on release. On that basis I was fine with us signing Hughes. We shouldn't sign Evans though. Never shown any remorse, admittedly because he denies the offence but the club can't go behind the fact he was properly convicted. Also, even on the admitted facts, he seems like a nasty piece of work and we wouldn't want a character like that disrupting things at the moment. Any continuing Appeal/Court proceedings would also be unwelcome.

Can understand disenchantment with commercialisation & costs of watching the Premier League. Cannot understand why the response to that is to set up a new club in Greater Manchester when there are existing small clubs at every level of the pyramid crying out for support & enthusiasm. Don't like them.

I've heard it's done in the 24th minute, i.e. when 23:00 shown on clock, as it's now 24 years since Hillsborough. After this year's anniversary it'll be done in the 25th minute and so on. Appropriate and deserves to be respected, though I did laugh when all the Liverpool fans stood up and someone shouted 'have the benefits inspectors gone home'

Unfortunately the itv camera work isn't the best for the penalty as it doesn't capture the little nudge in the back by Henderson just before the "clumsy" challenge which sent Harkins down. Stonewall penalty from where I was sat, which was pretty close with unobstructed view

He has tweeted that he was waving to his family in the crowd.

The mobile phone wall of light thing - apparently it's done at Robbie Williams concerts and some Facebook people suggested we try the same thing. It made the Chron. As things turned out it proved about as popular as the oldham ultras...