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1. Non-League stadiums offer vision of football's future as well as past
(Stories)
... the chasm between the top four tiers and non-League football more than the drive towards 3G pitches. Though they are vastly superior to the bouncy green carpets that were installed at Loftus Road, Boundary ...
Created on 05 November 2018
2. Thou Shalt Not Pass: The Alistair Robertson story
(Players)
... too, such as that of the “sea of green and yellow” at Boundary Park as the club won promotion under Giles in 1976, or Cyrille Regis knocking Wile over to power home a header on his first day at training, ...
Created on 16 May 2018
3. When Oldham's amazing cup runs led to a grudge match with Manchester United
(Stories)
...  my football experience had consisted of standing in the Paddocks at Boundary Park and playing tig with a mate for 90 minutes. This classic schoolyard game served a number of purposes – mainly it took m ...
Created on 14 May 2018
4. Thriving women's grassroots game gives a chance to those who missed out at school
(Stories)
... Saturday morning in early April. Sheffield United are at Boundary Park today. I don’t get to many away games, mainly cup fixtures if I do, so this morning is free to play football. Most of us knew each ...
Created on 06 February 2018
5. From the archive ~ Celebrating the pantomime parody of winter football
(Stories)
... s in August hasn’t proved himself until “we see what he’s like in the mud at Boundary Park in January”. There wouldn’t be any more football Januarys in Oldham or anyone else. An eerie silence would ha ...
Created on 12 December 2016
6. Plastic fantastic
(Organisation & structure)
With synthetic surfaces being considered again, Oldham fan Dan Turner looks back at their controversial heyday Sliding tackles were very big in the 1980s everywhere but Boundary Park. Every other week ...
Created on 01 May 2012
7. Getting hammered
(Clubs)
... proved a massive let-down. Facing promotion rivals Oldham, the Hammers travelled to Boundary Park on Valentine's Day 1990 in good heart but all that followed on the Latics' notorious plastic pitch was ...
Created on 21 February 2011
8. Mossley AFC
(As good as it got)
... be imagined. Uncle Ian, to me, was a very tall and heavy man who seemed to spend his entire life in an armchair in his house on the boundary between Stalybridge and Mossley. Literally all my memories of ...
Created on 21 June 2010
9. Battle for Broadway
(Clubs)
... chain or rapacious developer, but local professional club Oldham Athletic who want to move from their Boundary Park home. Dynamos have around 350 players, who, as chairman Leo Turner puts it, are kept ...
Created on 21 November 2009
10. Letters, WSC 263
(Readers' letters)
... Perhaps Peter had lost his French ­dictionnaire. Graham Dunbar, Geneva, Switzerland Dear WSC In reply to J Ferrier in WSC 261, who questioned whether I was aware of the temperature at Boundary Park, I ...
Created on 21 January 2009
11. Letters, WSC 261
(Readers' letters)
... WSC I take it that Andy Thorley, who claimed that the Britannia Stadium was the ­windiest and coldest in the League in your Season Guide in WSC 259, has never visited Ice Station Zebra, aka Boundary Park, ...
Created on 21 November 2008
12. Too close for comfort
(Players)
... there exists for me a clear boundary between footballers and fans. They play while I pay money to watch and offer unfounded advice on how they should do it. That’s how it works. I have no desire to “know” ...
Created on 14 November 2007
13. Hero to villain to what?
(Players)
... at Boundary Park. The independent Latics message board was suddenly alive with the nation’s football fans in a manner unseen since the town’s race riots in 2001. Oldham fans argued furiously among themselves ...
Created on 14 October 2007
14. Relocation, relocation
(Grounds)
... administrative boundary. Just ask Luton Town. In the February 1960 edition of Charles Buchan’s Football Monthly there was an article entitled “The Town that should be ashamed”. It could have been written ...
Created on 14 February 2007
15. Capital losses
(Non-League)
... Rovers, where Enfield Town also play. Meanwhile, Cheshunt and Potters Bar – both just a mile from Enfield’s boundary but, crucially, outside the M25 London orbital – are on the up. Since the last season ...
Created on 14 October 2006
16. League ladders – League One 2005-06
(Season reviews)
... doubt as to the reason evaporated at Boundary Park in October with a Keystone Cops defensive display that had granite-faced old regulars around me crying with laughter. But afterwards, as new boss Gary ...
Created on 14 July 2006
17. Flagged down
(Race)
... these days to divert Oldham fans away from moaning about their team’s on-field woes. As the most expensively assembled squad of recent times at Boundary Park spent most of the autumn stumbling from one ...
Created on 14 February 2006
18. Oldham Athletic 1990
(As good as it got)
... cup competitions. And they weren’t the only ones. We’d never seen the likes. Prior to the “pinch-me season” (copyright Joe Royle), my football experience had consisted of standing in the Paddocks at Boundary ...
Created on 14 November 2004
19. Out of time?
(Clubs)
... which he is chairman, Moore was­ted little time before ringing the changes at Boundary Park. With bold talk of promotion within three years and stadium redevelopment he soon had his own board in place ...
Created on 14 August 2003
20. Oldham Athletic
(The five minute...)
... it into the charts. Best forgotten Ian Stott – Our chairman from 1982 to 1998, spent more time sitting on every FA committee imaginable than he ever did at Boundary Park. He was finally rumbled after being ...
Created on 14 April 2003

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