Oldham Athletic produce the greatest relegation escape in Premier League history winning 3 games in the final week of the season when the experts' predicted none. Aston Villa 0-1 Latics Latics 3-2 Liverpool Latics 4-3 Southampton
Absolutely devastated with what going on with Oldham Athletic now 115 years of glory and final day escapes now a None League side I feel for the club and the supporters Oldham will be back 🔵⚽️
I was at the Southampton game, last game of the season. Lost all my fingernails in the last 15 mins, and a few tears spent after the final whistle. The Boys in Blue.....what a team!!
Bit my nails down to the knuckles, that season..... but wouldn't have missed any of it out, given my time over again. Gets better every time I watch it again, but still biting my nails!!
Bloody hell!! Forty years ago, and it feels like yesterday. God, I wish todays OAFC had a tenth of the belief the lads had back in the golden olden days.
Well lets look at the stats for each teams great escape shall we. West Brom- Won 6 of 38 games played, a win percentage of 15.78%, averaging 0.89 points per game, goals for 36, against 61, difference -25 Highest placed side beat Everton (4th), second highest Bolton (6th) Oldham - Won 13 of 42 games played, a win percentage of 30.95%, averaging 1.16points per game, goals for 63, against 74, difference -11. Highest placed side beat Man.Utd. (1st), second highest Aston Villa (2nd). West Brom were the best of 4 awful teams that averaged less than a goal and point for every game they played. If Oldham had had such a poor win percentage as Albion , we would have been down by Mid February '93.
