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It's Coming Home
It's dragging on a bit, this takeover, isn’t it? I wish they’d get on with it, I need the space in my fridge, it’s a pain in the arse...
Arlene Finnigan
Jul 23, 20223 min read


See I've already waited too long....
It seems daft really, doesn’t it. We all ended last season utterly despondent, not expecting anything other than a demoralising season in...
Arlene Finnigan
Jul 16, 20223 min read


Kick like a girl, down pints like a girl
Goodbye, Grotton's Rose. It's been quite a week for arrogant arseholes who pretend to despise football fans as plebs getting forced out...
Arlene Finnigan
Jul 9, 20224 min read


Good times for a change?
What a week, comrades. What. A. Fucking. Week. And I thought Sunday was going to be the feel-good story. If you ignore every other word...
Arlene Finnigan
Jul 2, 20225 min read


Rewind The Film
I could talk this week about your friend and mine, Andy Burnham, spearheading a taskforce to give fans an active role in the future...
Arlene Finnigan
Jun 25, 20222 min read


Rebellion (Lies! Lies!)
On Thursday, I tweeted "In danger of having nothing to blog about this week. Baz is gonna put out a statement at 11pm on Friday night,...
Arlene Finnigan
Jun 18, 20223 min read


This is my truth, tell me yours
Oh it’s good to have him back, isn’t it? The eloquence, the clarity, the integrity, the honesty. How ever did we get through those long...
Arlene Finnigan
Jun 11, 20225 min read


The Curle Who Wanted To Be God
Been a pretty quiet week by Latics standards, hasn't it? Boring, almost. I won't recap the interview with the FLG in any detail, but...
Arlene Finnigan
Jun 4, 20224 min read


Don't Let The Sh*te Divide Us
BRACE YOURSELVES FOR SOME CONJECTURE AND CRITICISM, BITCHES! Well the close season is proving to be every bit as chilled as I expected....
Arlene Finnigan
May 28, 20226 min read


We're not your sinners, our voices are for real
Hiya Barry! Thought I was gonna have nothing to write about this week but God bless you, I should have known I could rely on you to...
Arlene Finnigan
May 21, 20223 min read


Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
Felt a bit like a funeral, didn’t it? Maybe a gangster funeral, given the amount of police. Our message was heard - and seen, thanks to...
Arlene Finnigan
May 14, 20223 min read


Welcome to the dead zone, it’s a circus full of whores
Did anyone go the circus at Boundary Park over the May Day weekend? Yeah I know we were away at Tranmere. Lol. Bit on the nose, that,...
Arlene Finnigan
May 7, 20224 min read


I look to the future, it makes me cry
There we are, then. 115 years in the Football League. It took the Bollock Brothers 4 years to flush that down the toilet. With two games...
Arlene Finnigan
Apr 29, 20226 min read


Don't need you to tell me we're going down
Oh Fortuna, blind goddess, you have been busy with the wheel of our fate these last few months, haven’t you. From the hopelessness after...
Arlene Finnigan
Apr 23, 20223 min read


This is how it felt?
DISCLAIMER: What follows is a completely self-indulgent post about my love and lamentation for Oldham Athletic. If you have no interest...
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Apr 17, 20226 min read


I know the truth, and I know what you're thinking
Football can be cruel, can't it. Another woeful refereeing performance at Port Vale did us no favours, and we're clinging on to safety by...
Arlene Finnigan
Apr 15, 20224 min read


To steal what we never could own
Greetings from Northern Ireland! (At least that’s where we’re supposed to be when this gets published, Manchester Airport clusterfuck...
Arlene Finnigan
Apr 9, 20222 min read


This Is The One
Been a bit of a rollercoaster of a week, hasn’t it? Broke my personal best in the seat-to-bar sprint on Saturday in my desperation to...
Arlene Finnigan
Apr 2, 20223 min read


The hardest thing in the world?
Has anyone been brave enough to look at the league table this week? I haven’t. It’s now been five defeats on the bounce, and the...
Arlene Finnigan
Mar 25, 20223 min read


Driving south to Walsall? Man, we must have been insane.
It was nice while it lasted, wasn’t it? Those couple of weeks of actually being happy for the first time since, Fulham maybe? Three years...
Arlene Finnigan
Mar 18, 20224 min read
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