Sensible Soccer

Who else is clueless about these Super injunctions? It's just something for the rich to get away with things they have done wrong and don't want anyone else to find out about.
The rich can do what they want and don't care about the ordinary people at the bottom who they are trying to punish for gossiping about a certain footballer.
He goes by the name of "The footballer who cannot be named" but it's now know who he is thanks to Twitter, Facebook and the Sun Newspaper.
I'm now going with the Sensible Soccer approach and calling him Raan Goggs.



This is how they did it years ago when football computer games didn't have naming rights, so just made up a name that resembles the person.
Raan Goggs needs to quit now before he's know for being the guy who sued the twitter gang and not as the great footballer he should be remember as.

Season over

So the football season is over here in the lower leagues of English football, no play-offs so no extended season. No promotion, so no excitement about the new football season in August. No relegation, so no misery through the summer.

So what does that mean for me? Well being an Oldham Athletic fan, none of the above apply to me. With there being no international tournament this summer the time will surely drag. A few weeks left in the current season for premier league and foreign leagues but I'm not really interested as long as Barcelona beat Man Utd I'll be happy. My other team Fiorentina have nothing to play for.

Nearly 3 months of boredom to come. I don't get to experience the thrill of a big multi-million pound transfer these days at Oldham. Maybe the excitement of a loan signing is all that's left.
Saturday's of feeling bored and wishing I was a game will now begin. Amazing how football turns into such a big part of your life!

Thankfully I have something to help pass the painful few months ahead.... Moving house!
So days & nights of packing have already begun, just 3 weeks left till the big move. I can't wait to get in and get sorted, a fresh start.

My main worry is where do I put my signed Kelly Brook in the new house?

Plug away

Evolution fail for spiders!
I found a spider in the bath & watched as it tried & tried to get out of the bath but just couldn't. baths have been around for what seem like forever so why haven't spider adapted to their surroundings yet?
Still they can't escape from a bath! No matter how little of big they just cant seem to get up and out of a bath. You would think with as many legs as they have they could speed charge up the bath side! Plenty of creatures have evolved to their surroundings.




How or why the hell do they get stuck down there in the 1st place? Is it some kind of spider suicide Or maybe they just love riding the bath tub rapids down into the plug hole, they're just gagging for you to run the tap and sent them to their happy place.
So next time you find a spider in your bath, you decide, out the window, down the plug hole, or drown the bastard till it's legs curl together and it goes stiff!
The last option is mainly for the kids who pulled the legs off daddy long-legs.

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Manchester Marathon in the late SunShineeeee

At this moment in time while writing this, my Wife is doing an all night Marathon run for Cancer research in Manchester, all 27 miles of it.

Before hand she says "why didn't you do it"? Well as most men think, race for life & Shine Cancer research is only for women.
If I had known, I would of loved to have taken part in the Marathon.
Even on the latest advert, Race for Life are complaining they are short of women competitors to take part in the run 5k events which means lack of money to help beat Cancer.... Well let us men take part if the numbers are down. Most men would enjoy running behind a load of women, and most men would agree it will be a good view to be had by all  ;)  but bet they all won't look like Kelly Brook!

Plus its thumbs up by the women too, athletic looking men speeding past them, fun for everyone then, whilst raising money at the same time.
Yet again, it's the Shelias wheels syndrome again. Equal rights please. We all want the same thing, so please let anyone enter these Cancer events. Then we can all do our bit and help beat Cancer.

Its not too late to Sponsor the wife
http://www.sponsormetoshine.org/laineyhuskinson

Oldham Athletic New Badge Iphone 4 Wallpaper

Oldham Athletic New Badge Iphone Wallpaper

Happy Smoggy Easter

How quickly the year goes by the older you get, it's already Easter folks!
So what does Easter mean to everyone?
Is it all about the Lindt chocolate bunnies? Hoping that you get enough to form a bunny army?



For Christians, Easter is the most important festival in the Christian calendar. It celebrates the resurrection from the dead of Jesus, three days after he was executed. The Easter story is at the heart of Christianity.

Or is Easter now all about smog? Yes smog, it's on the lips of everyone, quite literally! I turn on the tele and the news is banging on about smog in London & Manchester.
You just can't win, firstly they say people need to go on holiday to increase local economy in sea side resorts...then they're blaming it on travelling for the increase in pollution causing smog.
Stay inside! Is the warning from the news to old people & asthma sufferers, then two minutes later they're saying "look at the lovely weather, go out and enjoy the sun"
Old people had it far worse in their youth, factories & mills pouring out black smoke. Yet they just got on with it, none of this softy nonsense.



So get out of your bubble, get outside in the smoggy sun, forget how bad chocolate is for you and eat loads of it....I will.

Stuck at a Semi

After watching yesterday's FA Cup semi-final, I feel a sense of injustice that Oldham never overcame that hurdle. Both times we came across Man Utd and failed in the year 1990 & 1994.
The two villains were Mark Robins and more notably Mark Hughes with his 120th minute Equaliser.



That goal in 1994 signalled the steady decline of my club, Oldham Athletic. Relegation followed in that season and it's been down hill since, now stuck in League One.
Looking on the bright side, I'm so glad I got to experience the cup run in 1989/90 where as well as reaching the FA Cup semi-final we reached the League Cup Final against Notts Forest where we lost 1-0 and finished 8th in the old second division.
Here was the cup run or as Latics fans call it "the pinch-me-season"

League Cup 89/90
2nd rnd Oldham 2-1 Leeds (1st leg)
2nd rnd Leeds 1-2 Oldham (2nd leg)
3rd Oldham 7-0 Scarborough
4th Oldham 3-1 Arsenal
5th Southampton 2-2 Oldham
5th Oldham 2-0 Southampton (replay)
Semi Oldham 6-0 West Ham (1st leg)
Semi West Ham 3-0 Oldham (2nd leg)
Final Oldham 0-1 Notts Forest



FA cup 89/90
Birmingham 1-1 Oldham
Oldham 1-0 Birmingham (replay)
Oldham 2-1 Brighton
Oldham 2-2 Everton
Everton 1-1 Oldham (replay)
Oldham 2-1 Everton (replay)
Oldham 3-0 Aston Villa
Oldham 3-3 Man Utd
Oldham 1-2 Man Utd (replay)

The 1989/90 squad contained stars such as:
Earl Barrett, Frank Bunn, Nick Henry, Rick Holden, Dennis Irwin, Ian Marshall, Mike Milligan, Roger Palmer, Paul Warhurst and of course Andy Ritchie
Managed by Joe Royle

Those days seem a long time ago now, we must be due a change of luck soon!
KEEP THE FAITH

Ps. Well done City