LaticsPete

No bobby Johnstone ?

Puns are a perennial close season favourite. There's a crop every season (seed what I did there?).

http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/sport/football/leeds-united/leeds-united-oldham-vying-to-sign-keeper-peacock-farrell-1-8630317

Blooming heck. Worse comedy than floral and hardy.

Dunne signs for Robinson at Motherwell http://www.motherwellfc.co.uk/2017/06/30/charles-dunne-joins-the-steelmen/

Pulp Football Nick Szczepanik Pub by Pitch Publishing, 2016 Softback, 256pp, £9.99 A bit like a box of chocolates or a tube of Pringles this is a book you can keep dipping into, one that’s rather moreish and easy to digest. Each page tempts the reader into returning for a bite with its seemingly non-stop stories of the less savoury, the outrageous, and the simply hard to believe that surround the game. Imagine one of those TV programmes that are in the style of “Most stupid criminals”, “Celebrities behaving badly” or the like. There’s always a slightly incredulous commentary that expresses partial amazement at the situations that are shown. And the viewer is loath to turn over, enjoying the exposure of stupidity, ineptitude, or simple bad behaviour on show. This book is rather like that, a look at the bungling, incompetence and outrageous decision making from many in football. An entertaining, amusing and slightly frightening exposure of the game of comedy rather than the game of beauty. If you’re looking for analysis of why things go wrong then this isn’t the book. But if you want to relax and be entertained with a touch of schadenfreude then dip into its pages with gusto. Whether it’s the antics of mascots on and off the pitch, vendettas of players towards others, amazing own goals, managerial shenanigans, or countless other scenarios that beggar belief, the author has probably covered it here. Despite his chronicle of football behaving badly, it’s clear that he loves it so it’s not a book that’s been written just to have a pop at the game. More of an insight into the less reputable goings on of some members of the family that everyone involved in football belongs to. A new season isn’t far away and there’ll no doubt be more amazing stories that develop. In the meantime enjoy a compendium of those that have already become part of the game’s history and folklore. Maybe there won’t be another murder discovered because a new stand has been built (as happened at Blackburn) but “Pulp Football” should prepare you for anything.

Saw him a couple of times for York last season . Played behind a terrible defence and was ok - nothing more than that I'd say. Def looking at him being an experienced back up keeper rather than first choice.

Will start it off. Holloway first goal £10 Gerrard first goal £10 Gardner first goal £10 Any penalty saved by a Latics keeper in league, league cup, and FA Cup matches (not shoot outs ). £5 Any match against non league opposition in FA Cup £10 Any time we score 4 or more goals in a league match £10

Think you've all got this wrong. Ripley was tapping up Clarke about a move to Boro.

Posted May 18 · Report post Really sad. A hard yet classy centre half. Signed long with Peter McCall, a wing half, from Bristol City . Yet another from that exciting early 60s Jack Rowley team to have passed . Rollo, Johnstone, Lister, Branagan, Phoenix , Spurdle, Ledger - RIP 0

The late Alan Williams, who died recently, was found guilty of drink driving in the 60s.

Would Sheff Wed fancy him in part-ex for Westwood?

17 years in old Div 2

Walter's lad. Dad played late 60s for Latics , more than 70 matches . Decent player in a below average team

Tommy Bell played 181 times for Latics 1946-52 without scoring. His son Graham did a bit better - 9 goals in 182 matches

Jermaine Johnson scored a penalty for Jamaica against Peru.

Very sad. The term legend is overused but surely applies to Gordon. He will be much missed by supporters, players, staff and all those in football who had the pleasure to meet him.

Indeed. There'd be no owtb without that approach ?

Four Lions: The Lives and Times of Four England Captains Colin Shindler Published by Head of Zeus, 2016 Hardback, 408pp, £18.99 Wright, Moore, Lineker, Beckham. Four captains of England who carried out the role against differing social and economic backgrounds, with varying degrees of success but who shared the expectations of a country where football means much more than being a sport. Fabio Capello, when manager of England, couldn’t understand why we attached so much importance to the captaincy and, when looked at objectively, that’s understandable. Unlike, for instance, cricket the football captain has little impact on tactics and isn’t involved in selection. Yet the job has a symbolic and disproportionate significance, especially at national level. He is a standard bearer for all those who follow the team, and regarded by those who don’t as a metaphor for the state of society. In a very special way he represents the country and the consequent spotlight and scrutiny is both a privilege and a burden. Colin Shindler focuses on four post-war captains, who held the position for a varying number of matches (18 to 90). His book is not a set of biographies, in fact much of it is more about the game or our culture at the time rather than the individuals. In a fluid and very readable manner he is able to present the captains as symbols of the change from a deferential, maximum wage era through the emergence of a less rigid, more affluent time, to the Cool Britannia mass media years. It isn’t a dry sociological tome: far from it. This is an author who knows his football and can present his ideas with credibility. At the same time, there are lots of the anecdotes and stories of the game that keep the pages turning. As an example, just one day before the 1966 World Cup began, Bobby Moore’s contract with West Ham finished and he was in dispute over a new one. If Alf Ramsey hadn’t got Ron Greenwood (West Ham manager at the time) to sort something out quickly then Moore would have been unregistered and ineligible for the tournament. It’s a fascinating book, portraying much about the FA, the media, and England managers as well as the captains. The relationships between the latter two are particularly well dealt with and it’s probably a credit to the four individuals that they often had to deal with driven, difficult team bosses – whom themselves were the object of football politics and deviousness. Using a wide range of source material, Shindler has produced an excellent read, a book that’s insightful, compelling and knowledgeable. Definitely worth getting hold of.

quite a lot of comment on this in this earlier thread

Have any bottles been delivered? Needed - hopefully - for the five signatures on renewal contracts today.

FA Trophy Final Danny Whitaker starts for Macclesfield Amarillo Morgan Smith starts & Luke Simpson on bench for York

Ossie Ardiles

Really sad. A hard yet classy centre half. Signed long with Peter McCall, a wing half, from Bristol City . Yet another from that exciting early 60s Jack Rowley team to have passed . Rollo, Johnstone, Lister, Branagan, Phoenix , Spurdle, Ledger - RIP

No . The Mannion money was in fact used to help purchase George Hardwick . Ref Oldham Athletic: A complete record . Floodlights came ten years later.