I'm neither born nor schooled in Oldham, but moved to Grasscroft in 1973, where we lived in to the 80's. Latics were the first team I ever watched regularly, and with the likes of Alan Groves, Maurice Whittle and co in the team who could help but follow them. The rest is history.
The post above reminds me of my brother and I catching the 180 into town for matches, and being given abuse by the city/utd clowns already on the bus. It always amazed me that these people could travel through Oldham, but then go on to Manchester to watch their football. Mind you, more recentley I met my bro in the Cambridge in Werneth before a latics game, and got the same abuse from the "oldhamers" in there watching the Manc derby. Some things never change.