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Post by o2o2bo2ba on Oct 20, 2016 17:46:53 GMT
Owl & Spindle.
There.....I've said it! Pub we frequented on way to Oldham.
Only been there once, early 90s, lost (2-0, I think), only match I've seen played on a plastic pitch, side enclosure view, mini bus from Glos Rd 8am still p*ssed from night before, scrump cider in van so whole day was p*ssed as a wheel, had great laugh apart from result.
Mate goes into pub and orders cider. Fair enough you might think, but he's an ale man usually (?). I ask him why ordering cider? He replies, cos am from Bristol, mate! Haha! Classic!
In those days we were singing blackthorn cider on Twerton Terraces and there was something funny about bursting into a pub ordering 12pints of zider, landlord!
Very 90s.
Anyways, safe journey Gas. Tough natch, sorry match and it's always cold there. But I'm confident we can get 3points.
Come on you yellows, UptheGas!
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Post by dido on Oct 20, 2016 18:22:10 GMT
17.11.1973. 1-1 (Mike Green). So cold they kindly put a dash of whisky in my half-time Bovril.
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Post by gasheadpirate on Oct 20, 2016 19:47:50 GMT
1-0 win with Jo Jacobson scoring if I recall. About 2007?
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Post by manchestergas on Oct 20, 2016 20:23:10 GMT
4-1 win in nearly season.
First game for the Latvian. 3-0 up after ten mins. Latvian was running rings round them, half their crowd had left after about 12 mins in disgust. Oldham then had enough and the Latvian was strechered off. Andy Thomson scored our last goal and I clearly remember him holding onto the back of the net afterwards after scoring with the look of madness on his face like Jack N in the Shinning.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2016 21:01:28 GMT
4-1 win in nearly season. First game for the Latvian. 3-0 up after ten mins. Latvian was running rings round them, half their crowd had left after about 12 mins in disgust. Oldham then had enough and the Latvian was strechered off. Andy Thomson scored our last goal and I clearly remember him holding onto the back of the net afterwards after scoring with the look of madness on his face like Jack N in the Shinning. I was at that one, Thomson scored a header right in front of us think Cureton scored two or three,and a 1-1 when Trevor Jacobs scored,remember one rovers fan invading the pitch don't recall why though.
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Post by manchestergas on Oct 20, 2016 22:09:48 GMT
That was apparently 26th Feb 2000. Sixteen years ago!
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Post by harrybuckle on Oct 21, 2016 7:51:38 GMT
March 1991 Lost 2-0 on their plastic pitch. Debut for Adie Boothroyd
Boundary Park is anecdotally known as being the coldest ground in the Football League, earning the nickname coined by Manager Joe Royle, Ice Station Zebra. It is also the third-highest stadium, at 509 feet (155m) above sea level, of any Premier League or Football League club after the Hawthorns, home of West Bromwich Albion, 551 feet (168m) and Vale Park, home of Port Vale, 525 feet (160m).
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Post by GasMacc1 on Oct 21, 2016 8:17:52 GMT
4-1 win in nearly season. First game for the Latvian. 3-0 up after ten mins. Latvian was running rings round them, half their crowd had left after about 12 mins in disgust. Oldham then had enough and the Latvian was strechered off. Andy Thomson scored our last goal and I clearly remember him holding onto the back of the net afterwards after scoring with the look of madness on his face like Jack N in the Shinning. I remember a mild spring evening, Tuesday 13th April 1999, in the previous season. Rovers had been in complete control of the game, leading 1-0 at half-time through Jason Roberts. Against the run of play, Oldham equalised and then got a free-kick just outside the Rovers penalty area. Referee Kevin Lynch was getting the Rovers wall back the requisite 10 yards, when Oldham took the free kick early and struck the ball into the Rovers goal. Holloway went ballistic, chasing the ref, screaming at him that he'd told Oldham to wait for the whistle. To no avail. Oldham won 2-1. If the name of the referee rings a bell, it was because he was the same Kevin Lynch who had sent off FOUR Rovers players 10 months earlier at Wigan Athletic.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2016 9:48:19 GMT
My main memory of Oldham was when I was living in Glasgow I had some in a sandwich and had the s**ts for three days.
utg
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