Chadderton aim to get back on track

CHADDERTON return to action tomorrow – weather permitting – after the frustration of three weeks without a game.

The Broadway side travel to Irlam in the first division of the Vodkat North-West Counties League and manager Paul Buckley hopes the enforced mid-season break will not disrupt their promotion push.

Chadderton are in fifth place and Buckley said: “We had built up momentum so obviously it has not been good to have no game for three weeks.

“I only hope it hasn’t disrupted us too much as we have been able to train only once a week.

“We managed to have one hour’s five-a-side at the Soccer Village, Heywood, on Saturday, which blew away some of the cobwebs.”

Chadderton have experienced midfield player Gareth Morris available after completing a three-match ban while Tony Hanlon, Dave Glynn, Nick Fraine and Carl Taylor are all expected to be available.

Chadderton reserves are at home to AFC Liverpool.




OLDHAM Town hope to be back in league action for the first time in a fortnight tomorrow when they are scheduled to entertain Norton United in the first division of the VNWCL.



Manager Tony Mills is aiming to avenge last month’s 2-0 defeat in Staffordshire.

“It was a day when everything went wrong with players arriving late, Lee Scanlan getting sent off and we just couldn’t score after dominating long periods of the game,” said Mills.

Town, who will be without injured winger Stuart McGill, are sixth in the table with games in hand on teams above them.




MOSSLEY have no fixture tomorrow, but at least they managed a game in midweek when they won 2-1 at Chorley to book a place in the quarter-finals of the President’s Cup.