When people moan about their clubs, just remember, that Oldham have not had any promotions since the early 90's. The fans who are too young to have seen that last promotion, will have only seen two relegations and zero promotions in the last 25 years. That's proper rough. Think about it, most traditional football league clubs have had at least say 4 promotions during that time. Some serious loyalty to still be an Oldham fan and to stick with it. Respect to them all 👍

I remember watching Oldham in the 1994 FA Cup Semi Final. Seconds away from beating Man Utd in their prime at Wembley, then Hughes equalises. Oldham didn't win a single league game after that, and they never recovered. Very sad to see. You could argue the moment Oldham died was when Hughes' volley hit the net.

So sad to hear how this is happening at so many historic clubs, surprised the EFL doesn't have more powers to bail teams out. Also, a "What is going on in Turkey video" would be super interesting. Fenerbache and Besiktas are 1 and 2 points off of third respectively, but Fenerbache is a whopping 20 points behind Trabzonspor, a club which hasn't won the league in over a decade, while Konyaspor has a 10 point lead over third. Galatasary is seriously threatened by relegation, and the everything just looks wrong right now.

Oxford fan...we had three seasons in the top flight in the mid 1980s....20 years later we were in the Conference....During the 90s we played 2nd tier football and punched above our weight....and then it transpired that we were £13 million in debt and the bank called it in.... after the subsequent firesale we plummeted down the league......consecutive 0-7 defeats at home being the 'lowlight'....we even struggled in our second season in the Conference....dark days.. . What happened at Bury fills me with disgust....couldn't City and United have helped them ? The financial imbalance in football these days is disgusting. The FA have a lot to answer for.

As an Oldham fan who has loved the club for over 20 years, I want to thank you for making this video and showing the flaws of shite owners and what they do to the clubs we all love, like Derby, Macclesfield, Bury etc these are massive parts of people's lives and they are just going disappear/ed, it is such a massive shame.

I really feel for the proper fans of teams like this who have to watch their clubs be destroyed. It’s one thing if your team isn’t playing well but when the owners are hell bent of ruining what you love it must hurt.

If i was the lucky Brit who won the £109m euro millions, I'd buy out a club like Oldham in a heartbeat. I am sick and tired of seeing historical clubs struggling. I wish their fans all the best

What's been happening to Oldham all these years has been so sad. To see them potentially even drop out of the Football League is even more disheartening. I just hope they manage to escape getting relegated, and get rid of their current owners. I actually enjoy managing Oldham on Football Manager and use it as a challenge to get them back into the Premier League. It's shocking they've never managed a promotion for over 20 years.

As an Oldham fan been waiting ages for a video like this. Honestly could do a netflix series about whats gone on, comical.

Wrexham have now spent 14 years in the National League, Stockport County dropped out of the league in 2011 and even spent 6 years in regional football, both now look to be on their way back but needed significant investment to turn things round, there's still Grimsby, Notts County, Chesterfield, Torquay, Southend and Halifax battling it out down there, while in the National league North you've got Chester, Darlington, York and Hereford struggling to even make it to the National League. Oldham are in for a massive shock, their crowds will hold up but even now they wouldn't be in the top 5 non league attandances, the overheads at a club like Oldham will be crippling. Clubs like Boreham Wood, Solihull and Bromley will always challemge at the top end, it's a tough division.

I've never heard of a sponsor of a club publicly calling that club a disgrace this is crazy

Seems clear there's a systematic issue in the UK where historic clubs are being run into the dirt by owners with no real love for the game or that are even fraudsters - maybe it shouldn't be so easy to buy and/or retain ownership of a football club. With situations like this the FA should have the power to force owners to sell up, allowing situations like this to carry on for year brings the English game into disrepute. Some kind of process or funding that would make it easier for fans to take over ownership of their club would help fix the system too

I raise a serious question here - how is it that this seems to happen to clubs over and over again in the Greater Manchester & Cheshire area? Macclesfield, Bury, Oldham, Wigan, Bolton, it's a roll call of pretty much every town in the area - why is there so many like this in this area? Yeah, there are plenty of clubs elsewhere that are struggling hard, but it seems that outside of the very richest (Man United and Man City) and the very poorest (low level non-League), every club in the region is absolutely shagged.

Great video, I have to applaud the Oldham fans; 1000+ traveled to Scunthorpe (2/5/22) for a Battle of the Bottom, which saw OAFC triumph 1-0. I almost feel good about that, but my beloved Iron lost. Ah the EFL!

It’s a sad demise of my hometown club. Oldham being 6 miles from Manchester also means a lot of people support City or United. It seems a long time ago I was at Wembley watching them in a League Cup final. I hope Latics can survive After Abdallah Lensigam inevitably leaves

After their takeover Bray Wanderers will now takeover as the worst run football club now unfortunately

As a Tranmere Rovers fan (we nearly went out of buisnes in the early 80s) and we went into the national league not so long ago. So dont give up ... you can Come Back all you need is jenuine people! and I wish you All The Best.

I remember how good Oldham were in the 1989/90 season. They were the cup upset specialists that season. Beating Arsenal in the League cup and West Ham in the semi final, winning 6-0 in the first leg at Boundary Park. They only lost 1-0 to Forest in the final at Wembley stadium. They almost beat United in the FA cup semi final, drawing 3-3 at Maine Road in the first game which was a thrilling game. Losing 2-1 in the replay. They were even better in 1990/91 getting promoted to the first division. I remember going to Old Trafford at the start of the 1991/92 season and watching United beat them narrowly, 1-0 with a late McClair goal. That was their golden period, up until the end of the 1993/94 season. I hope they turn it around.

The rapid ascent of Canadian football or John Herdman’s impact on Canadian football (women’s and men’s, the Canadian federation) would be a great topic. Back to back Olympic bronze and a mens team that went from 94th to 33rd under his leadership is really damn impressive.

I've been looking at Oldham's league record & my own club Millwall, I noticed Rotherham was top of league one so also there's Rotherham are going for their 3rd promotion in 6 seasons & has 3 relegations Millwall looks like its heading to stay in the championship for a 6th season next year. Longest stint in a division since 1979-1985. Rochdale Spent 36 seasons in the 4th Tier 1974-2010. Must have gotten so boring for the fans

Love your channel and your work mate. I have a football manager channel. I made a series with Oldham earlier this year. And now I'm doing one with Scunthorpe. Researching Scunthorpe for my series is how I came across your channel. I have now spent the bank holiday weekend watching endless videos of yours. Everyone is really enjoyable. You can see how hard you work. Keep it up mate. You should have millions of subs IMO 👍🏻

Would love to see a video like this about Coventry. I don't think many people really know the story about SISUs secret investors, the debacle of the Ricoh/AEH agreement and the club's rampant third party ownership of players being one of the main reasons that practice became so aggressively banned in England

Finally! This is the one I’ve been waiting for, out for a walk now so I ll watch when I get home😊

Great in-depth video as always! Next time you should do a video covering Galatasaray who are Turkish giants but this season is only 3 points from relegation, which is absolutely insane given the stature of the club! They have only 1 win in 14 matches and its also worth mentioning that their current manager is Domènec Torrent who was Pep Guardiola's old assistant at Barca, Bayern and City. Keep up the great work!!!

Love your content. Love your analysis. Love your videos. Love your style. ❤️ Is there any intriguing topic in football that you haven't covered? 😂 Keep up the amazing job! Would love to know more about the English Conference teams in the coming days from you... 👍🏽👍🏽

Great content!!! If you want to do another similar one you should do one on Bradford City. From the Premier League to league 2 in 6/7 seasons, administration x2, league cup final, fa cup runs, hoodwinked by German owner, cryto finances trying to buy the club! It would have it all! And I’m happy to help with the info if needed!!!

Been looking forward to this one. Thanks, Alfie!

You can do this on alot of teams eg Southend, Gillingham etc

Just to say under the new ownership of Frank Rothwell and family things at OAFC are looking much better. The crowds in the Vanarama league at home are now better than in div 2. We were poor at the start of the season but have now climbed away from the bottom. The club is better run and there is optimism for season 23/24

Many thanks for doing this video: it has been very helpful in explaining the situation. I feel sorry for Oldham fans and I hope they can get a chairman and a team that they deserve in the near future. Thinking abut future videos, a phrase you mentioned in this one is that the National League is a hard division to get out of. In the past, League One was regarded as the hardest divison to get out of. It would be very interesting to see finally, with some facts an figures, which of England's top seven divisons is the hardest to get out of?

We ended up at Oldham v Crewe for my stag do (we went for the cricket the night before) so I've kept a wee eye out for their results since. Glad you've made this as it'll explain a lot to me!

It is a good video, good introduction to the video and hopefully Oldham can get some wins to stay up Alfie Can you do a documentary on the afc Wimbledon on the nine promotions in eleven years, how they’re a fan own club and how they have a stadium in plough lane now. The story of they lost the club, how the F A allowed that and won’t allow that anymore. How they were very close to moving to ireland How they went up the English football leagues. It would be a good documentary video if you can do this. #thepeopleschannel

Loving these videos since I discovered your account, especially the lower league stuff. Have you considered doing anything on Carlisle United and Paul Simpson at all? Interesting story there in his previous back to back promotions with them, recovery from cancer, and return to club as he saved them from relegation then took them up again the next season

Alfie, can we get a video about what happened to South African national squad since the 1990s? There was so much promise back then, and the nation certainly has the wealth and the population size to produce a quality national side, as well as successful national squads in other sports.

Oldham have always been my second club when I used to play them on Fifa back in the day. Ritchie Wellens was my favourite player for the club back then

I think there are rules that would prevent City or United intervening in financial matters, but yes, they could make it all go away. That wouldn't be fair on all the other clubs fighting for life though. It seems strange that it's gone this bad since FFP began though. Clubs have to speculate sometimes. It's like throwing overboard with rocks tied to the club, and then telling it to swim.

brilliant vid alfie. a retrospective articulation of our beatiful game.

Love the videos. Keep the good work up. 👍

Another absolutely amazing video. Brilliant!!!!!

We need one of these videos about Scunthorpe

Great content as always. May I suggest you look into danish club Esbjerg fB? They came in third in the danish top tier only three years ago, yet this season they were relegated to third tier. That happened upon a season of six different managers, one of which were accused of physically punishing his players during training. All of this because new owners took over the club, without any idea of how to run a club in the danish league. Very interesting case of modern football gone really sour really fast, albeit not the most interesting of leagues. This phenomenon is a cancer to the sport we love so much, and I just want to shine a light on all the worst cases. Cautionary tales all of these stories.

These are the kind of vids I love, lower tier football league or non league specials

The Premier League breakaway from the EFL was good in the long run for English football...ie English Clubs are now the richest courtesy of the TV money they get and are going to financially dominate European football for the next decade at least..however the rest of the English football pyramid has been frozen out and is suffering more than it ever did b4 the 1992 breakaway Financial problems and liquidation have always been a part of football but the new English football landscape has ensured that MONEY is the only way to get to the top and is making clubs overspend or gamble too much financially just to get promotions. When the gamble does not pay off, it is a one way path to destruction.

Oldham was the first-ever football team I watched live in a stadium as a result I've already had a soft spot for them. I think they have been one of the unluckiest clubs going, have achieved next to nothing since they were relegated from the Premier League. Hopefully, the current Owner sells and a new one can get them back on track next season. Can't see them avoiding relegation this season even with the Miracle One that is in charge

We (Port Vale) were singing along with the Oldham fans when we went away to theirs due to the nature of the songs. As we know about having dodgy owners!

Thank you for sharing our plight

Since I was just a young boy! My father said to me! We are the supporters! Of Oldham athletic! Through all the good and bad times! We’ve traveled near and far! But you’ll always hear us scoring! From the stands of boundary park! Allez! Allez! Allez!

As a Bolton fan naturally I would like to stuff Oldham in every game we play against them. However, I have no pleasure in their struggles. Let's hope they can turn the corner.

Was at Wembley in 1994 when we managed to get, thanks to Mark Hughes, a 1-1 draw in the FA Cup semi-final. Also saw them in 1975, 56000 fans saw us beat Oldham 3-2. Sad to see them now.

Hiya alfie, just wondering if you could cover what's going on with PMG and how terrible their ownership of their current clubs (being Oostende of Belgium, AS Nancy of France and Barnsley FC, the club I support) 2 of the aforementioned clubs are currently rock bottom of their respective divisions whilst Oostende are sitting 14th. Nancy did a protest today as of writing this comment against the ownership of PMG whilst Barnsley are planning on doing one in our home match against QPR. Love your content btw

A similar video on Southend United and their recent troubles would be quite an interesting watch

Could you please do a video on Wigan's adminstration scandal in 2020-21? Lots of juicy stuff there which I'm surprised you haven't covered yet

Been waiting for this for ages

Great video but wondering if you could do a video on the recent Crystal Palace and Hartlepool FA Cup tie. Some really classy things Palace did leading up to the tie.

What on earth is going on At Wolfsburg, they were in The top 4 last season, but now they are 16 in the league, facing a relegation battle

this isnt just oldham over the years and its many clubs who have had terrible owners and once gone can make a good comeback look at doncaster in the 90s when we had a owner who couldnt care less then we nearly went bust jhon ryan took over and got us back to where we were only now 10 years later were back in leauge 2 for 2nd time in 4 seasons i honestly feel for oldham fans and hope one day you get rid of him and bounce back as i write this they unfortuanly been religated out of the league and its a terrible shock that another club is going out of leauge and proberly wont be back anytime soon im hope im wrong and they can come back better and stronger from a doncaster rovers fan i hope and prey you be back stronger but don't ever give up keep doing what your doing and he will be gone one day good luck next season anyway and hope well see you back soon

Great video, now maybe time to highlight Oldham’s relegation party friends at Scunthorpe United? What Peter Swann has done to the club is nothing short of a disgrace.

It's looking increasingly likely that my team (Walsall) will help Oldham out a bit and keep them up as we are atrocious. Coupled that with 7 points from 9 from Oldhams last 3 games. I think they'll survive now. Great video as always, Alfie. Perhaps you could figure one out about Walsall FC as they are in turmoil as I mentioned.

What on earth is going on at Birmingham City next please ☺️ loving the vids as always babes 💋

I use to work for a IT company that would support Oldham athletic and due to the whole stadium dispute they had to change there contract for per call/ per fix instead of yearly like every other company. It became such an issue because they would sometimes refuse to pay on simple calls and fixes so we was instructed to refuse service when they called. This was still the case when I left but I was told by someone who still worked there that their contract was terminated because of unpaid bills

I used to dread my lot (West Ham) playing on the drastic plastic back in the 90s. We got battered 6-0 on Valentines Day in a semi final. That pitch did save them many a time. I was glad to see them, QPR and Luton have to get rid.

Would you do an episode about Barnsley ? From 180 mins away from prem football not going down with two wins in one year

Finally a video about us! What a pain it's been...

Finally,a video regarding one of my favourite clubs daily and ever Oldham Athletic,good friends!!!I am extremely so sad to see them tumbling in the relegation zone for many games in the English League 2(Fourth Division English Football) so far this season and indeed,are doomed to the English Non League football,the fifth division English football,good friend!!!I am indeed in tears to see them struggling a lot for around 4 years due to the disappointing owners' financial dealings during the respective transfer windows to see being mired in the bottom of the table,good friends!!!Somehow,I am being hopeful to see Oldham Athletic to be surviving miraculously in the fourth division football through strategic planning by the manager to the respective players to try and win most of their matches and my full support on them,good friends!!!LONG LIVE OLDHAM ATHLETIC AND COME ON THE LATICS,SURVIVE IN THE ENGLISH LEAGUE 2!!!🏃‍♂️🏄‍♂️🏋️‍♂️

As a person who has lived in Greater Manchester all my life i enjoyed this video 👍

Would love to see you do one for Real Zaragoza. It's been a while since they were in La Liga and they're potentially facing to drop the the primera division rfef (3rd Division).

Great video again!

could you do a video on what clubs have stayed in what leagues the longest like it's pretty crazy to hear oldham stayed in League1 for 21 years. No relegations, promotions.. must have been pretty dull as a fan always finishing mid table in a mid tier league ? though i suspect they'd trade the dullness of finishing 17th place in league 1 every year for what they're going through now

Need to do the same kind of video on Bradford City, Premiership, multiple administrations to league two, start to re-build then Rahic comes along. A million managers later a bang average L2 team with the satadium and fan base of a championship/ premier league side

Have you done an episode on my club Southend United??? Plenty of ups and downs, more downs than ups though!!!

What a disgrace. As a long time Palace fan i can feel the pain for Oldham supporters. It wasn't too long ago that Palace were in a simular predicament, although not as bad as Oldham. Luckily for us Messrs Parish, Long, Browett and Hoskin saved us. And for their intervention all Palace fans will always be eternally grateful. I really hope some consortium or other step up to the plate and help this proud club. Good luck guys.

Great Vid really done your homework 👍

Great watch my friend 😊

I think you should make one of these about Scunthorpe aswell

@HITC Sevens, for your next what on earth is going on series, have you thought about doing a video about Birmingham City. They won the league cup in 2011, and have experienced stagnation for 10 years . Then there was Carson Yeung a former Birmingham City who got arrested between 2013-2014, as well as protests about the current ownership BSH.

Would love a what's going on at Scunthorpe United, after we just lost to Oldham to take bottom spot in the EFL this past weekend. Our owner owns the stadium we play in (leaving fans convinced he wants to just sell the land), sells our best players every transfer window and the attendances have dwindled to the lowest I've seen them in my lifetime. Used to be one of the most financially stable clubs in the lower leagues of England, now look destined for non-league obscurity for a very long time with great debt.

As a long suffering Oldham fan, I’m so glad you’ve covered us on your channel. I’m one of many of us who have never seen success, the only highlights have been the Cup upsets over the years and the two play offs. I know I share the same view as most of our fans, we don’t expect Premier League football. Most would be happy with bottom half Championship at best. All we want is a well run club that looks after it’s staff, giving youth players a platform to further their careers and a bit of excitement here and there. What has gone on in the last 5/6 years has been disgraceful. Heart and soul ripped from the club. IF we do manage to stay up, attention must return to sale of the club.

Video suggestion, why are so many clubs going into administration/ what should be done to combat it

as a commoner view, i'm saying this without any disrespect, but my mind, when i see oldham athletic, i can't think another word than "depression"...maybe i got emphasized by the "old" part, but when i knew their stadium status, their league status...it's just doesn't help it. But i'm glad you can lift up their real condition. damn, can't imagine being loyal with what they've faced. Props to their fans! Hope someday you'll see a great bright sky!

Even if Oldham is going down, I will never stop supporting the latics, standing with them untill the end!

There needs to be more of a drip down to the lower leagues to support them. However as I've heard previously, why would the big clubs agree to that? The more clubs that dissappear, the closer they get to making a super league without breaking any rules.

I'd like to see a video about how geography and economics effect the performance of football clubs over time, or vice versa. I think the city of Sheffield is a football anomaly and I wonder if if geography has something to do with their status.

Superb production

Hi video idea - the best premiere league 11 with each player wearing the same jearsy number as the position they play in eg striker no.9 , goalkeeper no 1, right back 2 left back 3 etc ..

Excellent video

As an oldham fan we celebrate clean sheets and getting a single goal back when we're 5-0 down more than city fans celebrated aguerrooooo

Would you be willing to go back and revisit "what on earth is going on at Derby" as it just gets juicier and more depressing by the day

Drawn to this video as my son was playing footy at the weekend directly behind the ground and I wondered what had happened to them in recent years. Seems like another notts county and sad for the game

Sad times I feel sorry for Oldham Athletic fans who will now see the club play in National League next season with the likes of Gateshead FC, Barnet, Boreham Wood and etc instead of going to places like Tranmere Rovers, Hartlepool United or Crewe Alexandra

Great 👍 documentary

Should do a documentary style vid on Exeter City … would be fun

Please make a video of premier League training grounds Love from Nepal

im a Latics fan from Preston loving it in non-leage some great clubs and great fans respect,

I remember Oldham's great win against a strong Liverpool team in the FA Cup in the last decade and them being a solid League 1 outfit. It's a shame how football clubs are being allowed to be run by people who have no respect for the game, let alone the club they currently own.

Hope to Oldham and fans they can gain stability and see a promotion soon

After Bury and Macclesfield, and risky situations at Oldham and Rochdale, Manchester is risking losing most of its most interesting footballing history

Sadly it's all true... Great video, well presented and researched.

Fun abdallah fact: after the loss to Plymouth, he walked into the changing room, gave the players a dirty look, didn’t say a word and walked back out. So yeah, that’s what we’ve had to put up with...

make a video on Chesterfield and their crazy last decade!

Greater Manchester is in the mud, man. Shout out to Oldham for winning that Premier League for Manchester United. How the heck is Oldham heading out of the football leagues?