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for my life insurance to pay out, the following day an immediately available cure for cancer, Latics to go on a record breaking run of wins & win promotion, TTA to be led through the town & jeered at, Man City to go bust, United to start a spiral towards three successive relegations & go on then, world peace. Oh & everyone involved with or sympathetic to ISIS to die horribly. And some new trainers & a ginsters cornish pasty. And for everyone on OWTB to have a spiffing time

I think the flag is a bit daft but they're young lads, cut them some slack - there's the usual sneering comments on social media about them. It'll get confiscated at a ground very soon I have no doubt & life will go on. However, people getting distressed or embarrassed at a message (however crude) of scorn directed at an utterly barbarous death cult, one which I wish death upon every one of it's members, is also a bit daft. From experience away from Latics related things I reckon some of those most upset or cringing about it probably wouldn't be overly embarrassed if ISIS was replaced by Nazis. Now *that* I find telling. I feel the same about the IRA song - was never sure why it was a matter for a football game,have never sung it in my life & have rolled my eyes at it on occasion but I've always thought those most agitated about it were hipster leftys horrified to be in close proximity to those they consider thicky plebs. While I'm making sweeping generalisations I bet you all voted remain as well - oh and voted for Jezza but are now perhaps a bit confused (or clinging to the hope the Glorious Leader has a cunning plan) ;-) Oh and putting the red hand of Ulster on the flag is also a bit lame but as I said they're kids & not doing anyone any harm.

very sad news - a true legend of the club. As said above, never heard a bad word spoken about him. So sorry for his family & friends

always useful to operate under a false flag when carrying out operations on the continent ;-)

was saying similar at work.That lot are trained.What an utterly screwed country.WC 2018 anyone?

I'd send all 2500 with banning orders over,supply any with army experience with guns & promise any suicidal ones 25k to their families if they blow themselves up in middle of Russian firm. Mental that their next game is in Lille & that's where English&Welsh have been told to stay.And not ONE of those apes has been arrested. French police crowd control is pathetic.Can only assume CRS actually want it to go off. Be safe everyone out there

This would only get the votes if the PL shared more of it's zillions but that would obviously mean them having their B teams in which would be awful - & in itself lead to lower crowds due to zero away fans at many of their games. So Im pretty sure there's no chance of it happening but then again they must think they have a chance of getting it through....

This would only get the votes if the PL shared more of it's zillions but that would obviously mean them having their B teams in which would be awful - & in itself lead to lower crowds due to zero away fans at many of their games. So Im pretty sure there's no chance of it happening but then again they must think they have a chance of getting it through....

It looks like an inevitable crash coming,worrying times for them.Didnt they take a wonga style loan out with Gigg Lane as collateral? Someone playing at Championship Manager for real then leaving a wreck behind.I have no strong feelings either way about them but as a small Lancastrian club struggling in the shadows of bigger neighbours I hope they somehow survive (& we dick them next season obviously)

They left after about 50 minutes,I surmised to take part in some man on man intense consensual physical contact with likeminded adults. I remember them turning up mob handed in the 80's at Sunderland.We won 3-0 but it was tarnished a little for me as I couldnt do the usual grab hold of a complete stranger & scream in their face routine as I was surrounded by Scotsmen with zero interest in our impressive performance

I watched us at the old place twice in the 80's & decided that was it for me there.First visit to the new one & impressed with the set up keeping the fans apart outside the ground & at the railway station.Unless you're looking for bother youre as safe as houses - the only time you come into contact is the 1 stop journey from London Bridge & even then the average fan is a lot more civilised nowadaysStill laughing to myself about the grown men on the pitch amongst the youngsters.That div in the blue jumper particularly.No wonder Millwall fans have popped up on here,they must be well embarrassed about their precious reputation.If another club did it to them they'd be wetting themselves Im sure.

some of the responses to that tweet made me laugh

One last note...while it's all well & good singing we're forever blowing bubbles to wind them up no Oldham fan should ever sing the word United,hang your heads in shame

Yes thought that was very poor from the Millwall announcer.That station is used by 95% of away fans yet he announced it was shut when in fact it's only shut to home fans.Didnt fall for it as my trusty friend Google told me to cool my boots.Very poor performance yesterday,Forte needs shooting after his misses & Poleon...wow.Can Croft get any fatter? Found the Millwall 'hardmen' very amusing at fulltime - how lame can you get?Presume there was some fisticuffs somewhere as Im sure some of those Hibs fans in our end didnt come down to London for the sights.Strange hobby but whatever floats your boat Still enjoyed the day as it's always nice to be amongst my own people & I'll be chuckling about the fearsome pitch invasion for a while yet

ditto. Took a long time to not tell us too much. But I welcome all disharmony at our nearest neighbours (putting aside Chadderton FC if I may) and hope they implode in a tremendously bitter bout of infighting. I think it was nailed on from their early days that there would eventually be disharmony - the 'right on' lefty crowd were always going to get their noses out of joint as the club got bigger which then attracts your business types(or opportunists/shysters depending on one's point of view). Plus United fans are mostly United fans because they win more than they lose, this season is threatening to be the first they will have experienced losing more than winning since 89/90 but even then the ******* ******** won the FA Cup even though in the semi final replay THE BALL WAS OVER THE LINE, IT WAS OVER THE LINE, IT WAS OVER THE LINE. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH DIE UNITED* DIEEEEEEEEEEE * - Both of them

Jesus H.Christ. That's scandalous. I hope there were mental health professionals on hand to deal with anyone who actually stumped that up

yes, I remember that - GMP studied United's attendances for a period of time and think it was often high 50's rather than in the 70's. Arsenal are another one - always close to sellout announced but you can see it's not true As for Blackpool and their campaign - I dont hold any ill will towards them but does anyone recall the amount of cybermockery of us when the buckets were being rattled post Chris Moore - many net warrior Blackpool fans took great pleasure in it, more than any other club that I recall, and were so proud of how young Oyston was running their club. *chortle*

we're 12th in the 'away' table. No prizes for our position in the home one!

Wigan's pitch is criminally bad from what I saw last night but I think if you've got a decent pitch with decent drainage and it hasnt lashed it down for weeks on end then you'd be fine. I'm sure Hull's pitch is ok and Huddersfield's too. But it's obviously all academic as our pitch obviously isnt up to it and there isnt the money to rectify that. Would still love to see the two clubs play at the same ground (and have that ground owned by people who actually give a toss but that's another topic......).

they didnt need to form a protest club in Leipzig as RB Leipzig were a brand new club (well technically, they took over a very small club). The two traditional clubs of the city were Lok.Leipzig and Sacshen Leipzig. I think if memory serves me right Sachsen imploded and now there are two successor clubs in the lower leagues. RB Leipzig are almost universally hated in Germany and no doubt viscerally so by Lok & Sachsen fans but as an Ossi friend of mine (who hates them too) said to me he can see how they got new supporters - Lok & Sacshen simply weren't places to take your kids too, RB have been cranking out cheap and free tickets and your kids wont have to see people getting their head's kicked in every week. Obviously if you've been brought up to support the two traditional clubs you wouldnt even countenance the idea of going but judging by the sheer amount of little eejits running around Oldham in United and City tops there's a huge attraction to being a glory hunter. I have a friend who works for the social media side of a 2nd Division German club and he was instructed never to refer to them as RB, just Leipzig - their very name cannot be uttered. Anyway, hope they fail miserably but they wont and with the financial clout they have they'll be up towards the top of German footy and it'll be another nail in the coffin of their admirable member club model One thing that I dont think they've fully thought out - they'll soon have to jettison RB Salzburg as you can't have two clubs playing in European competitions that are owned by the same people and RB Leipzig will be appearing in Europe sooner or later. Or maybe seeing the kind of people who run football they reason if they throw enough money at the right people that'll be solved

If by 'we' he means his mates he's correct.If he means OAFC he's lying or having a senior moment.'We' have a 20 year lease on our ancestral home & no ownership of it whatsoever.It was sold to council on understanding the club could buy it back,for whatever reason it was allowed to be sold off to individuals. Look how it was mendaciously reported back then: http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/local-news/boundary-park-bought-back-1120835 Comes across a bit better for the punters than the actual truth

good question,would take a long while finding out I suspect.From those that are rented it'd then be instructive to see how many were once owned by the club but then hived off & how many owners would be better off if it was demolished

I wouldn't say that believing separation of club and ground are a terrible thing for any football club and that OAFC have been mismanaged and suffered from executive neglect are conspiracy theories. I'm not getting this info from the radio Fidel Castro has put in my head, these are facts.

I assure you that my comment was not aimed at you,I just read the whole thread & hatchet job obviously stuck in my head,I wouldn't have been able to say who'd said it & no part of my post was aimed at any individual - beyond TTA.So what if a disgruntled person is behind the story? Lashing out at 'bad coverage' perhaps isn't defending the club at all.Maybe truly defending the club would be screaming blue murder at what's gone on.

I'm somewhat befuddled (I confess a common state of mind for me) by the amount of dislike of this article. Was the deal getting the land back but keeping it separate from Latics not in the interests of the club? You betcha. Was it then leaving us in a very dangerous position which could one day land us deep in the mire? Yep. Has the club been slowly run down? Seems pretty self evident to me. Are we in such a poor position that we cant match League 1 wage demands? Again, it would seem that this is obviously true. So given all this - why the dislike? A national newspaper does a piece and goes over stuff we all know - well they should do as nobody else will have any idea about this. This isnt the Chron. And if the dislike is coming from the angle of suggesting it's a hatchet job to deeply question what the Three Amigos have done to this club then I think you're looking at this wrong. It's about time a light was shone on Brass Bank, the land, the club - if we were a bigger club with a bigger fanbase and bigger media coverage the whole sorry affair would have been completely dissected & common knowledge years ago. The writing has been on the wall for years now - even while we had little sniffs of the play offs or glorious cup victories, we've been standing on quicksand all the while and one day there is the very real risk the club will go down into it. There are people who will financially benefit from the club going out of business. That is a dreadful situation to be in and it's one we've been in for years but most Latics fans long ago decided to close their eyes and put their fingers in their ears. Can't say I blame them but it doesnt make everything go away I'm afraid. And all the while there is the huge barrier to someone coming in to buy the club from Corney - what exactly will they be buying? Who in their right mind would buy us as is,new stand or no new stand? So given that it's hard to believe someone would buy us - where does that leave us? In a very bad place and the more newspapers do stories on it the better - even if it's all rehashed stuff. It wouldnt make a blind bit of difference of course but frankly a bit of finger pointing and opprobrium is the very least some people deserve. Yes we could do a Tranmere. We could go one worse and do a Stockport County. They still play at their grounds though - we could easily outdo both of them. And if we did there'd still be people arguing there was nothing bad about the land being bought back for future personal profit rather than that of the club. Or then again maybe everything will be hunky dory, Shezza will somehow steer us to safety, a Chinese Billionaire will then buy us and the land and turn us into the area's third football world powerhouse.