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A.B. wrote: ↑Sun Sep 05, 2021 5:14 pm Must admit, it felt a bit eerie before the game without any pre-match music and announcements of teams etc over the tannoy. Not sure it helped with there being very few home fans with masses of empty seats all over the place.

Bottleofsass wrote: ↑Sun Sep 05, 2021 5:57 pm

Cromwell58 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 05, 2021 12:29 pm If you have the right to clap the knee then you have have the right to boo it, it is a American marxist idea that has solved nothing, better to stand in the centre in silence to bring home the problem of racism.

Always have to cry about something you. Stop being so fragile.

pjdaly wrote: ↑Sun Sep 05, 2021 1:30 pm Names of soccer players are very different these days, many very exotic and some difficult to pronounce. But seeing the Jimmy Frizzell stand at Boundary Park yesterday set me thinking that I have never known of anybody else with the name Frizzell, inside or outside of football. What a great name, almost an old-fashioned comic-book footballer's name. But who was Jimmy Frizzell? Actually he was a great Oldham stalwart, ten years as a player and then another twelve as a manager. Obviously I am delighted that we beat them yesterday but at the same time I hate to see any small club having a crisis as all small clubs have their work cut out to keep going. I guess Oldham could do with a few extraordinary characters like Frizzell at the moment. Below is an EM picture of him in action at Holker Street on 7th October 1968. Barrow won 2-1 and this was just weeks before we hit the very summit of the old Division 3 (if only for less than a day). Between the two Jimmy's, Frizzell and Mulholland, we can see Brian Arrowsmith in the distance. The picture is looking towards the Holker Street end in the distance.

behind the goals wrote: ↑Sun Sep 05, 2021 9:34 pm On the Quest EFL Highlights show Mark Bright said Zanzala could play Championship/League 1 and also good friend of his. Good getting Gotts & Stevens on 2 year contracts going to be very good players which hopefully we can benefit from in the future.

Main Stand SeasonTct wrote: ↑Sun Sep 05, 2021 10:08 pm

behind the goals wrote: ↑Sun Sep 05, 2021 9:34 pm On the Quest EFL Highlights show Mark Bright said Zanzala could play Championship/League 1 and also good friend of his. Good getting Gotts & Stevens on 2 year contracts going to be very good players which hopefully we can benefit from in the future.

It was Clinton Morrison that commented on Zanzala on Quest EFL show not Mark Bright

pjdaly wrote: ↑Sun Sep 05, 2021 8:15 pm Thanks for above, S.B., I should have had you rather than Mr Pickthall teaching me History at the old school! (Not that Mr Pickthall was bad, he was very good actually . . .)

And so to something completely different . . .

We look to our big striker Zanzala to show power and strength to lead the line and he has been seen to do that well so far. But having looked back at his goal yesterday it's the mentalistic aspects that impress me the most there . . . the composure and intelligence he shows when finishing. If he had rushed and struck it with his left there's a strong chance his shot might have cannoned off the keeper's body. So I just love the way he pauses for a split second and thinks about it, opening his own body up to enable him to curl it round the keeper into the far corner with his right. Cool, clever, a thinking man's finish. Well done, Offrande, a footballing brain on show there.

pjdaly wrote: ↑Sun Sep 05, 2021 1:30 pm Names of soccer players are very different these days, many very exotic and some difficult to pronounce. But seeing the Jimmy Frizzell stand at Boundary Park yesterday set me thinking that I have never known of anybody else with the name Frizzell, inside or outside of football. What a great name, almost an old-fashioned comic-book footballer's name. But who was Jimmy Frizzell? Actually he was a great Oldham stalwart, ten years as a player and then another twelve as a manager. Obviously I am delighted that we beat them yesterday but at the same time I hate to see any small club having a crisis as all small clubs have their work cut out to keep going. I guess Oldham could do with a few extraordinary characters like Frizzell at the moment. Below is an EM picture of him in action at Holker Street on 7th October 1968. Barrow won 2-1 and this was just weeks before we hit the very summit of the old Division 3 (if only for less than a day). Between the two Jimmy's, Frizzell and Mulholland, we can see Brian Arrowsmith in the distance. The picture is looking towards the Holker Street end in the distance.

Jim wrote: ↑Sun Sep 05, 2021 4:44 pm Just watched the highlights. How did we get away without a penalty late on in second half when Banks leaned on their number 8 then pushed him on the neck with the ref watching just two or three yards away?

Yanto wrote: ↑Mon Sep 06, 2021 9:03 am It was against Goole Town Mike. The only time we wore that horrific checked shirt. A great season, but with nothing to show for it in the end.