Seriously, Oldham - what utter tw&ts. Could they have made a worse job of this?
They get involved trying to sign a convicted rapist, then pretend to be all shocked when the whirlwind of criticism strikes, then push ahead and try and do it anyway annoying everyone except Gordon Taylor, then lose their nerve and pull out not for any moral or principled reasons that they realised it was the wrong move, but because they have been threatened. That is appalling (if it's true, it does make a handy excuse to back out) but it doesn't spare Oldham.
They have ended up tarring their own name possibly forever AND despite that not getting the player anyway through not holding their nerve. Brilliant job.
Quite. Puts not having enough Harvey's at a game into perspective. BHAFC is capable of some screw ups, but all the time we have the current regime I doubt we'd ever cock up quite as badly as Oldham have managed.
They really have managed to engineer a PR disaster in a very short space of time. It's quite likely to be a financial disaster too - they're obviously not going to get the top up from Ched's girlfriend's father any longer, and the sponsors they've lost may not want to get involved again (or, if they do, not for a while and at a lower financial contribution for the same benefits they were getting prior to all the Ched stuff).
"Oldham - how to mess up big time in only a week".