joe_lead Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 Help required to settle argument. When did the Keep The Faith motto come in and why? The eldests bail money's riding on this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest oa_exile Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 Help required to settle argument. When did the Keep The Faith motto come in and why? The eldests bail money's riding on this. Not 100% sure on this .......... so dont pay out just yet Was it introduced after we went belly up."The Trust" started the motto / slogan ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeLatics Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 It was during our near-bust era if I remember, and sort of stuck ever since! KTF ;) Joe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 Not 100% sure on this .......... so dont pay out just yet Was it introduced after we went belly up."The Trust" started the motto / slogan ? It was earlier than that wasn't it? I think it might have been Big Joe who coined the phrase back in the Prem days. I dunno... Like exile sez, don't pay out yet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 It was earlier than that wasn't it? I think it might have been Big Joe who coined the phrase. I dunno... Like exile sez, don't pay out yet! I sure it was, cos I was going to get a tat of the oldham crest and KEEP THE FAITH underneath it and it was about 1996/97 during the rum years... I didn't get the tat. It was all rum talk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
palmer1 Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 I sure it was, cos I was going to get a tat of the oldham crest and KEEP THE FAITH underneath it and it was about 1996/97 during the rum years... I didn't get the tat. It was all rum talk. it was in the premiership after the "pinch me season" then the "keeping the dream alive season" we took it to wembley against the scum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OAFC_ULTRA Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 it was in the premiership after the "pinch me season" then the "keeping the dream alive season" we took it to wembley against the scum. I agree. Im sure it was Big Joe who used it in his programme notes during the Prem years - hence the big flag Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostofcecere Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 It was a phrase coined by Big Joe many years ago........ maybe even before the pinch me years Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
latic12345 Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 It was a phrase coined by Big Joe many years ago........ maybe even before the pinch me years The book about our promotion year was entitled "Keeping the Dream Alive" I think "Keep the Faith" is from a similar era and is a Joe Royle phrase Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scapegoat Posted November 28, 2008 Share Posted November 28, 2008 My recollection was that it was a phrase from Joe (ala Pinch Me, Ice Station Zebra etc - the man seemed to have a gift for it) during the clubs first season in the Premiership. Generally everything seemed bleak (BTB even produced their last edition that season with a black border for "The Relegation Special" near the end of the season things were so grim) and it was in an interview about the time of the 2-2 draw at Everton. Generally it was simply telling the supporters to not give up because the players hadn't and that we needed to 'Keep the Faith' that everything would turn out alright. There followed one of the most (THE most according to the Telegraph about a year ago) great escapes as Latics stayed up and it became part of Latics Lore. A year later when THE flag was made for the Wembley trip in the F.A.Cup the slogan was put on there and the re-occurrence of the falg over the years kept the phrase alive and its now burnt into all Latics fans and has been on the bottom of our shirts. On a recent thread on the BBC 606 forum about Gregan - a number of Latics fans had posted with Keep the Faith at the bottom of their entries. To which a supporter of another club commented and said we seemed to be showing tendencies of a religious cult more than a football team. Made me laugh anyway. Happy to stand corrected, but I don't recall mention of the phrase before then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longtimeblue Posted November 28, 2008 Share Posted November 28, 2008 It was on the big flag we had at wembley in 94 - so before all the Moore era, just became relevant again then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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