Will Oldham be back in the EFL one day soon???

People like the Oldham supporter at the end of the video - who just stand by their team, no matter what, are the reason why I feel in love with English football. They will forever be the heart of football.

The supporter who has followed Oldham for 61 years is a true gem. Great vid!

As a life-long Oxford United fan I am sad to say that we beat this record by quite a number of years. The Yellows graced the old First Div, before it was renamed as the Premier League, for 3 seasons between 1985-88, winning the League Cup in 1986 by the then biggest margin of 3-0. Like the fate of Oldham we had shyster owners begining with maxwell and ending with kassam and we found ourselves in the Conference in 2006, just 20yrs after being in the 'top flight'. My very best wishes to Oldham, and all their fans, as the Conference is a tough, tough, league to get out of - it took us 4 seasons but, like many other clubs they can, with a bit of astute management and patience, do it. Good Luck, Oldham FC.

The National League is filling up with big clubs that have been badly run and it isn't surprising to see huge crowds for some league games at this level.

You wanted some interesting information about where and how some clubs were founded. Since I am from the Czech Republic, I will write two things that you might not have known. Sparta Prague was founded in 1893. Believe it or not, it was not founded in Prague then. Sparta was then founded in a city called Královské Vinohrady. Today this place is already part of Prague, but back then it was an independent rich city. So the club was initially called AC Královské Vinohrady. Only a year later, a meeting of the founders took place in a pub (this time in Prague), and because club did not receive financial support in Královské Vinohrady, they decided to move the club to Prague. And since ancient Greece was popular at the time, they named the club Sparta. So Sparta Prague also got its name in the pub. And now one thing that maybe you didn't know and still a lot of people don't know. Surely you know Hajduk Split, a team from Croatia. And you probably still thought it was founded in Split. But it wasn't. It was founded by a group of Croatian students who studied at the University in Prague and had just returned to their favorite Prague pub from the Sparta - Slavia match. They were so excited by the match that they decided to found a football club, which after completing their studies in Prague started playing in their hometown of Split. So yes, Croatian Hajduk Split was founded in a Prague pub in 1911.

I was at their last game as a league team. Tragic what's happened to them, but they're now owned by someone local who know what it means to be an Oldham fan.

I am an Oldham fan and we are really struggling but there is a air of optimism. New chairman. It’s a great place to watch football and the athleticos are amazing. I live 5 minutes from where your filming.

Although I'm a United fan I'm absolutely shocked and saddened to find out that Oldham have fallen into the 5th tier of football. It was 32 & 28 years respectively we had those epic FA Cup Semi final battles with them but somehow it seems like it was only yesterday. Truth be told we should have lost them both and I had just about given the ghost before Mark Hughes saved the day. My driving instructor was from Oldham and we would often talk and laugh about football after the lesson . Looking at the League table, you can see how the TV money benefited the top clubs and eventually destroyed real competition.

I found your videos on youtube and I really liked them. I´m brazilian and a big fan of english football, the best league in the world. So it's great to know more about football in england. My son is an oldham fan, it's sad to see the team in this situation.

I'm a Stockport fan and we spent 11 years in non league football, we spent 6 of those years in regional football, it wasn't the disaster everyone thinks, we still had our team and we still travelled the country watching them, we met some great people, Nuneaton fans and Bradford Park Avenue fans love their clubs just as much as Man Utd fans do, it's a new journey enjoy it.

Take heart Oldham fans.We at Barrow waited decades to get back into league two so it can be achieved.

Oldham had a miracle escape at the end of that first PL season, staying up by winning their final three games. Sadly my team (Palace) got relegated as a result. On a more positive note, we were extremely close to getting a Palace v Oldham Cup Final in 1990. Despite what happened in 1993, I hope they can get back into the EFL soon.

Boundary Park seems to be one of the loveliest stadiums in England if you ask me. I love this behind-the-goal stand covered by one of these good old gable roofs which represent the romanticism of British football for me. If I will come back to visit Britain again and see the Manchester area once in my lifetime, I'll have to go to Oldham for sure. I really have a soft spot for the clubs in the lower divisions which had their best times in the early 90s when I got intrigued into football. The team of my hometown which is currently playing in the 4th tier of Germany (a semi-professional league comparable to the National League but divided into regional groups, so it's quite complicated to get out of this division), Wuppertaler SV, was a 2. Bundesliga team at this time (they also spent three years in the Bundesliga in the 70s and even made it into the UEFA Cup as as a newly promoted team, but that was a handful of years before I was born). Please do more videos like this featuring British non-league teams which spent their best times in the 2nd or even the first tier like Oldham. You can literally smell the history at these places, and watching these collared Umbro shirts from the 90s takes me back to these good old days. I'm thinking about clubs such as Stockport County or Southend United. Best regards from Germany, loving your channel

Good that you can get into stadiums now. Great stuff as always

In my first season supporting Barnsley in the 1990/91 season Oldham won what is now the Championship with what was a great team. They genuinely were a team that you feared playing against. They had a great following, great players, manager and that plastic pitch seemed to give them an aura of invincibility at that level too! I couldn’t believe it when they got relegated to the conference and I found out that was actually the last promotion that Oldham had!

Another fantastic, informative video! Your passion for the clubs you visit is wonderful to see and I hope we can welcome you back to Middlesbrough at some point this season, I will be buying you a pint!

Been waiting for you to cover us, cheers mate. Keep the faith

Great video, I really enjoyed this and very informative. More videos of teams in the lower leagues please! 😀

I grew up not far from Oldham and although I grew up a Man Utd supporter, I had a soft spot for Oldham and would keep an eye on how they got on, so sad to see their fall, but I guess the only way is up now! I also remember when I was in primary school and got a tour of boundary park and was blown away, as that wasn’t that long after the glory days of the premier league, such a shame! Great video!

Nice one for covering my clubs situation mate 👏

Great video Sam, and a story well told! I have a private collection of match worn Oldham shirts from the premier league, the club donated the three strips from the last season in the EFL to compare them side by side , great photo!

Timley video Sam ! I hope to go to Oldham v Scunthorpe in a couple of weeks, good work mate !

We hope, but man, you have now achieved 11K subscribers in the last 1 month, absolute respect 🙏🔥

Not an Oldham fan but I used to like watching them when I was a kid, would be nice for them to come back into the football league. I remember all those old kits from when they were in the top flight. Interesting to see the standings in the league after the first premier league season with Coventry, Wimbledon, QPR and Ipswich all there. I wonder if so much external money hadn’t come into the game how the table would look now !? Great video again mate, love all your work !

Awesome stuff, stumbled across your channel, subscribed. Love the history of football clubs, especially English clubs.

Good video, man. Subscribed

Great vid as always.

A great way of telling Oldhams' sad story, nice work. As a Southend United fan, it would be great to see a video like this around us with our severe demise over recent years. From back-to-back relegations dropping out of the football league for the first time ever, the chairman confronting the fans & having a hot dog thrown at him, winding up order after winding up order, a new stadium promised going on well over 20 years, the list goes.

I was at Oldham from 85-90 when they had the plastic pitch. It's so sad what has happened to them. I really hope they recover and get back up the football pyramid.

At 4:46 behind you at the bottom of the street were you can see newer style houses stood Pine Mill. I lived on Barton Street from 1976 till the mid nineties that faced the mill. Great video!!

As an American who's fallen in love with European football, your videos are both entertaining and educational. Thanks for all your great content!

great vid. very well done keep it up

Really sad to witness Oldham's demise over the decades. My first visit to White Hart Lane was in April 1993 when I saw us bash Oldham 4-1, and that was a PL game. I do think they stayed up but went down the season after that. I hope their fortunes change soon.

Love these videos! If you are in Birmingham it would be great to do Birmingham St George f.c ..keep up the great work

Great video and massive respect to the Oldham fan who has seen his team play at 176 different grounds. I have done over 80 with Walsall which i thought was a lot but 176 must be some kind of record with the same team

I'm an Oldham fan been waiting for you to go to boundary park for a while now... We will be bk 💙

Great video mate,

I feel for Oldham fans. But a far more spectacular fall from grace was experienced by Burnley who went from being champions of England in 1959/60 to almost dropping out of Division 4 in 1986/87, winning their last match. If they'd drawn, they'd have been bottom. I have a connection with Oldham as a Lancs/Yorks hybrid, my father being from Oldham. In fact, he used to tell me how the Latics got 30,000 and the RL team 20,000 watching them. He would be 110 if he was living, so we're going back to when he was a kid, before he moved to Skipton.

Oldham will come back hopefully, first went to boundary park in 1974 in a pre season friendly against my team Blackpool…jimmy Frizzle was the manager then and l really hope they come again !!.

What a pleasant change to watch a fact based football video... thank you and well done.

Sad to see Oldham in non league, but they have a decent owner now. We (Leyton Orient) gave their protest campaign plenty of support when they played at ours last season. Not very long since we were in the same position. An Orient video would be good.

Love youre videoes! Love from norway 🔥

Glad to see footy adventures getting to my club, things are a bit down atm but the future is bright!

Great video as always mate, you off to Milan for the Nations League next week?

Nice video, often wondered where the Pine Villa came from. When I was growing up in the 70s Oldham had a shop on King Street in Oldham called “The Latics Tangerine Shop” I went in once and it was pretty threadbare. A few programmes and the odd knitted scarf. Boundary Park is unique in that there is a big slope from the Rochdale Road end, they also had one of worst plastic pitches even by plastic pitch standards! I’ve been to games where a drop kick from the keeper would bounce seemingly as high as the floodlights. Happy days.

I was at Ipswich when we won promotion to the old first division under Joe Royle. I was there last season when we got relegated to the National League. We had two particularly poor owners :one I think is in prison, but we look forward with optimism to a fresh start under Frank Rothwell. We had sons of Jamie Carragher and Richie Wellens playing this Saturday in John Sheridans last match as manager and fortunately managed a very late winner. Certainly we are now getting a decent gate and the standard of football is higher than I expected.One of our substitutes on Saturday looks about fourteen and really small...but he can play football. Hope he grows a little.

Why not try Wrexham the oldest team in Wales. Really enjoyed the video by the way love the content. Its a fall from grace whats happened to Oldham but now they face the task of getting back the football league. Keep up the great content 👏 👍

Cracking video, maybe a video about Met. Police FC would be an interesting watch

Excellent. Thank you.

Oldham were the team that gave my club glasgow rangers their greatest ever goalkeeper and my hero his start in his footballing career andy goram went on to have a fantastic career and if it wasn't for oldham he may never have been noticed as goalkeeper so big thanks to Oldham for that

Love this channel

Yeah, I often look at the non league tables and feel very sad that there are many clubs who were once in the top flight or just below. I hope these clubs get some consolation from the fact that many of us do remember and wish them all the best in their attempts to regain their former glory.

If you haven't done already, I'd like to see you do a video on Scarborough. I'm not a supporter (don't think I've ever actually been to Scarborough!) but they were also former football league and have slowly made their way back up. In fact, Chester and Halifax would also be good topics! EDIT: turns out you have already. Added to my watchlist!

Portsmouth,my team,could have easily been non-league. I feel for Oldham. 😢 A great vid Sam. Seems ironic somehow that the Latics are now in the same division as Gateshead...football, funny old game.

Chesterfield fan here, good luck for the season Oldham Athletic,

Only needed a point or so from the last 3 games to win the league in 1915. Fucked it up. OAFC - spoiling Saturdays since 1895. Great watch. Thanks

I’m from Oldham and have supported them all my life, it was sad seeing them go down and all our star players left, but even now I still love the team You wouldn’t believe who has played for them

Oldham used to be a really good team I remember watching them against us at anfield in the fa cup I think it was when Paul dickov was in charge and a few seasons before they knocked us out the cup at there ground.. scary how quick a team can fall

Used to jump the 24 bus and go watching Oldham when City wasnt playing, went to Wembley v forest in the early 90s

Come to Sutton United. Founded in 1898 finally reached the football league by winning the National League in 20/21. In our first season as a football league club we just missed out on the playoff even though we started the seazon as favourites for relegation. We are currently 10th in League 2.

What a great video 🦉

Visiting my brother in law who stays in shaw and we travelled down from Dunfermline to see him.Hes impressed with ur episode about oldham.When r u going bac to see Kelty Hearts.Drive passed boundary Park yesterday and just bac from man City ground lol

My first ever footy match, was Oldham Vs Bristol Rovers…it was 4-3 hours o Oldham and I must have been 6/7 years old…if not younger! Good old Andy Ritchy…as well 👌🏻💪🏻❤️

My team Banbury United were originally called Banbury Spencer, they were the works team from the Spencer corset factory in the town and were only renamed Banbury United in the 1960's . Excuse the pun but it only became Banbury United when a consortium of local businessmen rescued the club from going "bust" ( get it corset - bust 😅)

Love that pretty much every club is formed in a pub

Good team when Joe Royal was there and they had Andy Ritchie We got PaulvWarhurst from em too and changed him into a striker from a full back and He was called up to play up front for England but got injured

Loved the video any chance u could do peterborough utd as a supporter would love to see there history

Great video as always. Ipswich used to play in the Broom Hill area of town and used to get changed the the nearby Inkerman pub which is still there today near the double roundabout on Norwich Road

Look at this guys eyes, he is such a football head, passionate!!

I remember that Norwich team that finished 3rd in the first premier league season qualifying for the uefa cup for the following season & they beat Bayern Munich away!

Been there a few times over the years , I am a stoke fan , can remember the plastic pitch and a man called roger palmer , always scored against us . I remember they pushed Man Utd all the way in the fa cup semis in the early 90s . The old man what a hero , proper fan not like all the glory hunting wankers you get today. Great video , let’s hope Oldham get back to the football league asap ⚽️⚽️👍

Do something about Deportivo La Coruña! Champions of Spain In 2000, third tier in 2020! Get over there for a game and do a video on their disastrous 20 years!

I'm amazed there haven't been many more teams do an "Oldham". I'm more amazed more haven't gone bust- but they will. Britain, population 67million, has 92 professional league clubs, and probably another dozen or so non league clubs who are all professional. It's amazing any man between 18 and 30 does any job other than being a professional footballer. America, population 365million, has 32 NFL teams. You don't have to be a maths genius to see there's something not quite right.

Great research ,

They were founder members of the Premier League and the Fourth Division, but only by default. Teams that were relegated from the First Division in 1992 missed out on the Premier League. Where as Oldham gained enough points and survived for two seasons. They gained their place in the newly formed Fourth Division because the new division was made up of the 12 lowest teams in the Third Division North and South table at the end of the 1957-58 season. Ironically, Scunthorpe and Lindsey United finished as Champions of the last Third Division North table. They now sit bottom of the National League tables. Oldham were relegated in 1994 and dropped into the National League in 2022 (28 years), but that is what happens when you stretch your finances beyond your budget. Similar financial issues plagued Luton Town who played-in and dropped out of the First Division in it’s last season: 1992 (before it became the Premier League) and dropped out of the Football League in 2009. (17 years) Of course, First Division and Premier League rewards were nothing like what they are now… When Luton first dropped into the non-league, I am sure most of our supporters believed we would immediately bounce back… but it took us a few seasons and we learned to respect the league. The true fans are the ones that stay with their club through thick and thin and support their club no matter what league they are playing in.

Middlesbrough were formed in The Albert pub on Linthorpe Road which just recently closed as a pub.

April 2023. Just to say playing in the National league hasnt been too bad. With an excellent new owner Frank Rothwell we have seen a turn around. WE struggled at first but have now reached the safety of mid table with consecutive wins. Wrexham from this league will soon be rising up the EFL like Stockport. It will be tough getting out of this league but you have to be optimistic.

I am 65 years old and support Cardiff, I remember as a lad going to Ninian park to watch the team, there sere so many big teams in Div 2 then (pre premiership) that are now in the depths. Oldham athletic, Leyton Orient, Portsmouth, Plymouth etc etc

The Torquay boys were the first non league team Oldham has played in a league game. And I’m proud

You want a former premier League team? Afc Wimbledon and a stadium tour with them. They are fan owned :) Fisher fc are fan owned also and in non league Glad Oldham athletic have new owners now Good video Sam on Oldham athletic

As a Hammer of course they were a thorn in the early 90s , especially the league cup semi! But I still remember their players and things like yesterday. Rick Holden, Mike Milligan, Frankie Bunn and his 6 goals, that Bovis kit, the plastic pitch. Shame to see them down there but they’ll be back.

Dagenham and Redbridge was my local team, not long ago was at Wembley watching them get promotion to the first division, first match in there was at Hillsborough. Now back in the national League 😛

I'm an exile Mancunian what lives in Scarborough now. I supported Manchester City of 40 years. My last City game was 3 seasons ago. First game of the season v Norwich we were reigning Champions and the atmosphere was pitful. And nearly 50 pound for the privilege. That was it for me. Sick and tired of paying ludicrous ticket prices, sat with corporates and Daytrippers who only jumped on to football after Euro 96 because it became also fashionable. Fed up with silly kick off days and times to accommodate Sky and TNT sport's. It was done with an heavy heart and maybe living in 115 Mile away made the decision easier. But it ain't the game I grew up with stood on the kippax at Maine Road in the 80s,90s even early 00s. I watch none league Scarborough now love it. So Oldham's best time to be in the premier League. Was when they was in the premier League. When it still belonged to the working classes. It's now just a circus, Corporate, none entity!!!

Right at the end, poor old Scunthorpe rooted at the bottom of the table - they're in freefall but also Torquay and Aldershgot floundering, will they ever return to the football League? They were regulars years ago.

I think Notts County went from fourth div to first div, then back down to fourth all in consecutive seasons. Or close to that. Would be a good story.

Hopefully see them back in the EFL soon!

18 Dec 93 took my son who is now 36 to his first footy match - cov v Oldham 1-1 Roy wegerlee scored for cov - we are Leeds fans but his grandparents lived near high field Rd - in the 90s they had decent players MOT

You should do southend! Crashed down with concurrent demotions, beat Manchester united, been around for over 100 years

I remember Oldham Athletic from the 1994 Premier League Sticker album. Good times.

Go to roots hall, one of my favourite away days …

Hey mate, be interesting if you do Walsall for west midlands teams?

Chelsea was formed in a pub right opposite Stamford Bridge! Stands there proud still today!

I remember Oldham at Roker Park, Sunderland in the early 80s when we were both in the top flight.

John Sheridan is another connection Class player for Wednesday and Bossed them more than once I think as well as Chesterfield

I’m a Celtic and Oldham fan (being half Glaswegian and half Oldhamer) and it’s truly saddening to see the fall of Oldham Athletic. Run into the ground by owner mismanagement. On the flip side it’s good to have Harry Kewell as part of Celtics coaching staff

You definitely have to come back up for falkirk vs Dunfermline tommorow

Jeez mans doing well for 71 😯

Take a look at Grimsby Town in the early years had some 1st division action

My dad use to take me to watch Oldham when I was young. I remember the games being so boring that I would put my coat on backwards and stand with my back to the game - that was more fun to my 7 year old self.