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LEE Johnson stuck to what he knows by bringing in TWO former team-mates on deadline day. Wales international centre-back James Wilson arrived on a deal running to the end of...
Date Published 03/02/2014
Swindon 0, Oldham 1 THERE is nothing quite like the balm of three points and a clean sheet to soothe the open sore of a star player leaving. Keyboards and touch screens took...
ATHLETIC’S centre-back pairing may have been “chucked together”, in the words of Lee Johnson, but the two full debutants combined to shut out a Swindon side...
Barrow 16, Oldham 6 OLDHAM RL Club’s class of 2014 did more than enough in their first run-out at Barrow to make it a happy 42nd birthday for coach Scott Naylor. With...
CHRIS Smalling admits it is getting to the stage where Manchester United need to win every game to qualify for next season’s Champions League. United suffered their...
MANCHESTER City’s Brazilian midfielder Fernandinho sees his side’s heavyweight clash with Chelsea tonight as the ideal opportunity to catch national boss Luiz Felipe...
Chronicle racing correspondent Keith McHugh’s selections from tomorrow’s cards
LATICS have signed striker Jon Stead on a month's loan from Huddersfield Town and he goes straight into the squad for today's game at Swindon - weather permitting. The 30-year...
Date Published 01/02/2014
Charlie MacDonald The Latics striker writes every week for Chron Sport IF Carlsberg did football matches, the game at Boundary Park last Saturday afternoon would be...
Date Published 31/01/2014
Angling: IT was hard going in the latest Slaithwaite Pairs League match on a wind-affected Sparth Reservoir: only one angler broke the pound barrier. Colin Smith (Matrix...
NEW-LOOK Saddleworth Rangers step out for the first time in anger this season — in round one of the Tetley’s Challenge Cup. Shane Tupaea’s side, which held...
FOOTBALL: ANOTHER week of heavy rain, followed by a lunchtime downpour, caused the postponement of the majority of Lancashire and Cheshire League games. Those games that did...
Heyside 2, Shelley 4 HEYSIDE showed a strong collective spirit as they went down to table-topping Shelley in Division Two of the Huddersfield and District League at Royton 3G....
Non-league football: IT’S close at the bottom of Evo-Stik Division One North, so Mossley could do with stringing together good results. The Lilywhites are in 16th place...
DEFENDER Adam Lockwood is adamant the only way is up for Athletic. Lee Johnson’s men find themselves in 16th place in Sky Bet League One. Asked if he thought that was a...
Utility giant United Utilities is close to finalising a plan to bring flooding relief to parts of Uppermill. As a prelude to the million pound project, the company is carrying...
OLDHAM’S Boxing and Personal Development Centre has had a £4,000 boost from police - with money retrieved from criminals Founder Eric Noi’s centre, a...
OLDHAM Council leader Jim McMahon is in the running for a prestigious accolade for his “outstanding leadership”. The judging panel for the Local Government...
THE FRIDAY THING: FINALLY, the tram has arrived. It has certainly been a long and harrowing wait and we users and would-be users, while mourning the loss of a train service...
THE Stray Birds will appear at Playhouse 2 on Saturday, bringing their brand of rich folk all the way from Pennsylvania, America. Tickets are available by calling 01706 840400...
WORK is underway on the country’s first community-owned hydro-electric scheme. The Saddleworth Community Hydro project will install a 50kw turbine at Dovestone Reservoir,...
Mossley Library closes its doors for the final time tomorrow... to move to a new home in the George Lawton Hall, 100 yards away. The Wyre Street building will close at 5pm on...
Daredevil Shaw teacher Steve Hill has won a special award for raising £40,000 for charity in nine years. Steve (42), deputy head at St Joseph’s primary school, has...
HEALTH chiefs have chosen which organisations will provide community-based services across the borough. Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust will retain the majority of the...
MP Debbie Abrahams has teamed up with a local heart attack survivor to launch her NHS Check Oldham report. The first of the quarterly reports concentrates on accident and...
BLINDSIDED, Royal Exchange, Manchester, to Feb 15 NOT, I fear, the play Julie Hesmondhalgh and the stage door photographers might have hoped for to give the former...
SIX full-time teaching jobs are to be axed at Newman RC College because of a fall in pupil numbers and curriculum changes. The cuts will be made in non-core subjects (not...
A DEDICATED runner has completed an incredible 325 miles from Oldham to Aberdeen to raise cash for Cancer Care UK. Tony Muir, from Fitton Hill, covered between 50 and 60 miles...
FAMILIES on a terrace street face an anxious wait after an outside wall spanning three houses partly collapsed. Residents in Ash Street, Failsworth, heard a loud bang as the...
AFTER pushing leaders Kinsley Raiders so close seven days earlier, Hollinwood produced another terrific performance to defeat fourth-placed Wakefield City 20-16. The Pennine...
