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Ground capacity apparently 4200. Crowds (incl v Macclesfield in First Round) normally 2000 - 2300.

No Nepocumeno tonight. Has joined up with his national team....

I give you Scarborough in 72/3, 1-2 away in replay ( so we failed in two matches to beat them - and we were Div 3 at the time) However it was only three years since South Shields had beaten us in another replay , this time at home. Same score.

Have now found mention of Galvin. Played 13 times and scored 3 goals in 1905/6, when we were still in Lancs Combination.

Frank Hesham played for Latics from 1907 -9 . 40 first team matches. Lost his life whilst in Royal Garrison Artillery on the western front in 1915, aged 34 Sandy McAllister , 1905-6. 5 appearances. Died from food poisoning when serving with Northumberland Fusiliers in Italy in 1918, aged 39 Can,t find any record of Paddy Galvin ever appearing for our first team. EDIT: Now located him as playing before we entered the League. In 1905/6 he had 13 appearances , scoring 3 times.

Latics to win by three. #OurNameIsOnTheCup

Arthur Cashmore, who played 16 times that season, received facial shrapnel injuries but after the war came back and played for the club until the end of 1919. None of the published record books give any mention of fatalities amongst the staff.

I watched MK Dons at Hyde on tv , last season I think. What impressed me was the way MK went at them right from the start. None of the “let’s keep it tight to begin with , absorb their early enthusiasm and pressure “. MK pressed and attacked and took control. After that the result was never in doubt. Tactics for Monday? Go at them right from the start , be confident and assertive, and boss the match. Might not make a tv fairy tale story but sod that.

38000 for spurs v Newport (Rnd 4) last season and 47000 for the “derby” v Wimbledon (Rnd 3) - can’t see more for Latics

Who from?

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Maybe we looked , maybe we didn’t. As he is still with the Premiership club it seems either nobody fancied him or his club didn’t want to loan him out ( or the conditions they wanted attached to his loan were too onerous) Keep putting names forward though.

I like that ? Law didn’t sign for York till July 17 , by which time they had been relegated to Nat League North . Perhaps the prospect of playing at the new Community “ Stadium” (a longer saga than Spurs and their new ground) attracted him to a contract. Anyway if selected he’ll be back up against League opposition in the Cup next week at Swindon

Josh Law gets 4 out of 10 after York lose 4-1 to Bradford PA. One of several to get a low mark. I have to admit I was surprised when he dropped down to York, I always thought he was half decent. "Josh Law 4 – very difficult to recall City’s right back laying a single tackle on an opponent"

Pete Wild disappointed with the performance against Altrincham https://www.oldhamathletic.co.uk/news/2018/november/02112018-altrincham-u18-reaction/

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With respect I believe that must have been 6-1 on 23 Oct 1961 as that was the only time during Bobby Johnstone’s era we played them in the tournament. Either way it was still a big defeat.

Depends on the season. It was agreed in 62/3 , according to “The Lancashire Cup- A Complete Record” , that “First and second Division clubs should play a Central League strength side or stronger, while third and fourth division clubs were expected to field their full strength team”. In earlier seasons, and it began in 1880, teams selections varied and it should be remembered that for many years it was a prestigious trophy to win. Apparently it wasn’t until 1930/1 that official attendances were kept . Latics’ first home game with official crowds was a 2nd round replay on Monday afternoon, Oct 12 1931. We beat Wigan Borough in a replay, 4-0 in front of 1179. it’s interesting how closely fought some matches were - the 38/9 tie between Latics and Rochdale went to two replays, each with extra time, before we won . Some of the older ones of us will remember the 1971 final , again against Dale. Played at Spotland , Latics lost 1-2 with a crowd of 7003. It’s a competition that had some important years but now is very much seen as peripheral ....with crowds to match.

Why?

“Lad”. ?

Fantasy Football Edward Couzens-Lake Legends Publishing, 2012 Hardback, 220pp, £19.99 The first season of the Premier League was 1992/3 and, despite the best efforts of Sky, it was by no means a dramatically different animal than the old Div 1. Indeed, looking back, it seems quite a restrained change, with more, though still relatively limited tv coverage, and commentators and pundits still recognising that football wasn’t invented by its arrival. The hegemony of the handful of big clubs hadn’t become established meaning there was still hope for others, if not of winning the league at least being challengers. In fact, 4 out of the top 5 at the end of the season are no longer in the top flight (extending the comparison, thirteen of the original twenty-two teams are no longer there). This book looks at the very successful season of one of the outsiders, “from the mouths of real Norwich City heroes” as the subtitle proclaims. It hadn’t looked as though the campaign was going to be a delight. Only just escaping relegation the season before, a new manager in place, and terrace hero and goal scorer Robert Fleck having been sold, there wasn’t a great deal of expectation. The author has written eight books on the Canaries and knows the club both as an observer and supporter. He has excellently conveyed the moods of fans and that of the pundits and journalists. The former, hopeful but not necessarily optimistic, the latter almost wholly dismissive of the club from the wilds of East Anglia. This despite City having had 17 of the previous 20 seasons in the top flight and qualifying for Europe on three occasions. The season, however, had its own story to tell. This isn’t a blow by blow, match by match account. It’s a well-structured look, with many interviews, at the people associated, whether its those departed such as Fleck or the Club Secretary, numerous players, both regulars and understudies, and journalists that covered the club. All set to the background of the changing nature of football, on and off the field. The personal recollections and hindsight of those involved do make a rounded and fascinating story of one club at the very start of the Premier League. It’s that level of story in that there’s a “happy ending” (plot spoiler – Norwich finished third), but also because, despite the overwhelming affection the author has for Norwich, he can set eveeything in a wider context, relevant to readers whoever they support. More than 20 years on it may now feel like a fantasy that “smaller” clubs could be successful in the modern environment but having fantasies is surely what supporters of such clubs must have.

Neither should be confused with TOASTY . The Oldham Athletic Supporters Trust (York)

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There won’t be a full house by any stretch of the imagination. Just get a ticket from Hampton .

By heck you’re desperate. Sad even.