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WATCHED by the RFL’s top man, Nigel Wood, a much-changed Oldham side won 50-12 in South Wales to take over the leadership of Kingstone Press League One. The only other...
Date Published 20/04/2015
ATHLETIC supporters will need to relocate from the Zen Office Chaddy End from the start of next season following its allocation to away fans. Announcing season ticket prices...
Athletic 0, Chesterfield 0 TWICE in the first 20 seconds of this tedious game, Chesterfield players swung and sliced wildly at the ball as it bounced like a basketball off a...
SOUTH WALES SCORPIONS 12, OLDHAM 50 Scott Naylor’s boys did a workmanlike job to improve their points column with a 50-12 walkover. Ten tries on a firm pitch were...
DEAN Holden admitted Athletic didn’t carve out as many scoring chances as he would have liked against Chesterfield - but had no complaints about his side’s work...
SCOTT Naylor had plenty of reasons to be “pleased” by the way Oldham played in a runaway win down in South Wales. He made changes that worked well; his young side...
LUKE Shaw is eager to kick on and make a name for himself at Manchester United after making his first appearance in almost six weeks against Chelsea. The 19 year old...
MANCHESTER City are waiting to hear the extent of the injury suffered by David Silva in yesterday’s comfortable win over West Ham. Silva suffered suspected cheekbone and...
Non-league football: MOSSLEY closed their home Evo-Stik League Division One North campaign in style with a 4-1 thumping of Clitheroe at sun-drenched Seel Park. The Lilywhites...
CRICKET: IT proved a red letter day for 23-year-old Kate Cross yesterday as the first woman ever to play in a Central Lancashire League first XI game took three wickets helping...
CRICKET: SADDLEWORTH put down a first-day marker in the 2015 SWB Commercials Saddleworth and District Cricket League with a comprehensive 146-run win over reigning champions...
BOXING: TOP-of-the-bill Jon Kays secured a routine points victory against Wiltshire’s Liam Richards at the Oldham Sports Centre. Kays scored 80 points to 73 against...
CRICKET: DELPH sneaked into the next stage of the Heavy Woollen Cup after edging Slaithwaite out of the competition on a bowl-out yesterday. Bad light proved a problem for the...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards
MANCHESTER City’s under-18s can succeed where the club’s senior players failed this season – by winning a piece of silverware. The next generation of City...
ATHLETIC 0 CHESTERFIELD 0 ATHLETIC played out a scoreless draw with Chesterfield, with a point representing a decisive step towards the end-of-season play-offs for the...
Date Published 18/04/2015
OLDHAM favourite Jon Kays can’t wait to rock the town’s Sports Centre again tomorrow night when he tops the bill in taking on tough Wiltshire opponent Liam Richards in an exciting...
Date Published 17/04/2015
Non-league football: MOSSLEY joint-boss Peter Band has already turned some of his thoughts towards next season following the realisation that his team won’t make the...
LYDGATE Band Contest Committee is putting this year’s programme together — for the 40th year of the popular village event. If you have any old photographs of the...
THE FRIDAY THING: NO politics today — I can hear the huge sigh of relief. Ed Miliband has his fans thanks to his apparently big doe eyes, much admired by the ladies on...
FAMED poet Roger McGough WILL now talk about his latest poetry collection, "As Far As I Know” , at Oldham Coliseum tonight, from 7pm. Late last week there was a suggestion the...
IT’S the end of the era as the Oldham Chronicle bids happy retirement to business writer Martyn Torr. For many readers the face of the Chronicle for the local business...
GREATER Manchester police and crime commissioner Tony Lloyd is hoping to become the region’s new Interim Mayor. The mayoralty is the first step in the devolution of...
Angling: JOHN Lees (Gilders) concentrated on the tip and maggot for his winning 7lb 8oz net, but it was a last-gasp 3lb tench that swung things his way in the latest of the...
FOOTBALL: UPPERMILL have gained promotion to the top flight of the FBT Manchester League following a cracking Division One campaign. They sealed their elevation with another...
FOOTBALL: FITTON Hill and Heyside have fired themselves into the semi-finals of the Midas Plumbing and Heating Oldham Sunday League Jack Abbott Premier Division Shield...
FOOTBALL: HEYSIDE won the Huddersfield League Division Two title in some style as they crushed KKS Spartans 8-2. The floodgates opened when Rick Ollerton chipped over the...
Springhead 1, Avro 2 FOOTBALL: TWO set-piece goals against gritty Springhead ensured Avro’s passage to the Manchester League’s Gilgryst Cup final. Avro will now...
RUGBY: OLDHAM St Anne’s return from a three-week absence when they host Blackbrook in the Kingstone Press National Conference League tomorrow. And rather than being rusty...
RUGBY UNION: CHAMPIONS Oldham bring down the curtain on a magnificent North Lancashire Division One season with the visit of St Edward’s Old Boys, of Liverpool,...
