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Arlene Finnigan
13 minutes ago5 min read
The Vimal of the species is more deadly
What an exciting week for Oldham Athletic Football Club! And what a pity this blog is mostly about El Crapico! It was a bumper crowd, as...
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Arlene Finnigan
Mar 156 min read
Head on high Waters
We did it! We finally won a home game in 2025! Christ but it’s been a long hard road though, which continued last Saturday. Football...
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Arlene Finnigan
Mar 85 min read
It's happening all over again
“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.” Our performances recently have been both tragic and farcical, and I don’t...
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Arlene Finnigan
Mar 14 min read
Typical us, we started something and now we're not too sure
So there was no ‘Typical Latics’ away bounce then? We don’t win our away games either now, is it? That’s just what Oldham do. They just...
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Arlene Finnigan
Feb 225 min read
What a beautiful unhappy home
It’s the people who bought the half season tickets I feel sorry for. Imagine being swept up in the optimism after the win at Tranmere and...
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Arlene Finnigan
Feb 158 min read
He took his chance cos luck was on his side or something
After an utterly shite January, we’re now unbeaten in five games. That’s good, innit? Onwards and upwards. Last Saturday we made the trip...
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Arlene Finnigan
Feb 88 min read
Hey there Michael, do you really love us?
I didn’t think I’d be coming back after last week’s hiatus to write about back-to-back wins on the road. Comrades, I was wrong....
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Arlene Finnigan
Jan 257 min read
Free fallin'
“I’ve certainly missed having actual football to write about….”. Well, there’s 180+ minutes of deeply disappointing, frustrating,...
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Arlene Finnigan
Jan 184 min read
The hole in our squad was letting in Waters
No game to reflect on this week because we’re a tinpot club with no undersoil heating (and undersoil heating is dead expensive and not...
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Arlene Finnigan
Jan 115 min read
Frozen winter sh*t
Thank God common sense prevailed and the match was called off yesterday in good time. Was anyone actually looking forward to it? When the...
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Arlene Finnigan
Jan 44 min read
We're the little club that Santa Claus forgot
Hmph. Well, that wasn’t the festive season we were hoping for, was it? Hope Santa at least brought you the Lynx Africa gift set you were...
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Arlene Finnigan
Dec 26, 20244 min read
Gather together whatever the weather may bring
Happy Winterval! Hope you’re all having a brilliant time. And if you were at Braintree on Saturday, I hope you dried out in time for...
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Arlene Finnigan
Dec 21, 20245 min read
Won't you stay with us 'til May?
There was only ever going to be one Stones emerging victorious last Saturday. It was never in doubt. Not even at 2-0 down. Merry...
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Arlene Finnigan
Dec 14, 20244 min read
It's all gonna go wrong this Christmas....but it's just part of the fun
The FA Trophy is crap, isn’t it? Or, more accurately, we’re crap in the FA Trophy. I’d really like it if we never had to compete in it...
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Arlene Finnigan
Dec 7, 20246 min read
I can see a better time when all our dreams come true
Conceding a 99th minute equaliser is a kick in the minge. Going on to concede a 121st minute winner is a kick in the minge. Supporting...
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Arlene Finnigan
Nov 30, 20246 min read
I begin dreaming
I should set up a template Word document for blogs about 4-0 wins, shouldn't I? We're making a habit of it. And it is wonderful. I should...
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Arlene Finnigan
Nov 23, 20245 min read
Do the chicken payback
We said we were due to give someone a hammering, didn’t we? We said that we should be beating teams like Tamworth comfortably at home,...
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Arlene Finnigan
Nov 16, 20245 min read
Don't worry, Bee happy
I will not lie to you, comrades. It is MUCH easier to write 1400 fairly interesting words about a very enjoyable win at Tranmere than it...
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Arlene Finnigan
Nov 9, 20247 min read
In my Mersey paradise
For the best part of the last 30 years, supporting Latics has been a thankless task. It’s mostly been an endless kick in the crotch....
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Arlene Finnigan
Nov 2, 20245 min read
Fly on, my sweet angel
It wasn’t pretty. It wasn’t a classic. It was nervy, scrappy, at times turgid. But it was another 3 points, and our 8th league win of the...
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