Freddie Goodwin.
Well-known member
I've been there a few times, I know I have, but it's the sort of place you tend to forget.
Looking through the records I see we won 3-1 in our 78/79 season and & I know i was there as saw all the games but can't remember it, even though it was a midweek.
The season before we drew 1-1 in a hardfought match and i was on the old 'Stavros' Seagull Special. i remember us chasing the Oldham fans up the road 7 i was quite nimble in those days and found myself ahead of the crowd and getting isolated.
Had to have a reality check. To run on would run the risk that they may just turn on me or i might just get arrested. reckoned it was a good time to run out of breath!
The only other memory from Oldham came on another trip and this must serve as a HEALTH WARNING to anyone going tomorrow. We were in a pub and somebody ordered a good old Northern steak pie only to find it was full of a scalding hot brown liquid. A heated debate ensued. the pub landlord claimed it was gravey whilst the Albion fan (still a regular) had a brown stained shirt.
In these days it would be a compensation case. in those days the landlord called the police.
BTW, Swansea, much like Oldham, few memories. I do remember us winning 3-1 when we played some sparkling stuff having been relegated along with Swans from the old Div 1 the previous year.
In that relegation year we also won 2-1 at the Vetch yet the crow, in the top division, was less than 9k. main memory of Swansea was how the police used to fence off a few streets and we were free to roam in that cordon. Quite revolutionary at the time, we were even allowed in pubs. In some of the streets the locals would still leave their front doors open. How times have changed.
Looking through the records I see we won 3-1 in our 78/79 season and & I know i was there as saw all the games but can't remember it, even though it was a midweek.
The season before we drew 1-1 in a hardfought match and i was on the old 'Stavros' Seagull Special. i remember us chasing the Oldham fans up the road 7 i was quite nimble in those days and found myself ahead of the crowd and getting isolated.
Had to have a reality check. To run on would run the risk that they may just turn on me or i might just get arrested. reckoned it was a good time to run out of breath!
The only other memory from Oldham came on another trip and this must serve as a HEALTH WARNING to anyone going tomorrow. We were in a pub and somebody ordered a good old Northern steak pie only to find it was full of a scalding hot brown liquid. A heated debate ensued. the pub landlord claimed it was gravey whilst the Albion fan (still a regular) had a brown stained shirt.
In these days it would be a compensation case. in those days the landlord called the police.
BTW, Swansea, much like Oldham, few memories. I do remember us winning 3-1 when we played some sparkling stuff having been relegated along with Swans from the old Div 1 the previous year.
In that relegation year we also won 2-1 at the Vetch yet the crow, in the top division, was less than 9k. main memory of Swansea was how the police used to fence off a few streets and we were free to roam in that cordon. Quite revolutionary at the time, we were even allowed in pubs. In some of the streets the locals would still leave their front doors open. How times have changed.
