Author: Tony Bugby

TEENAGE FOOTBALLER Joe Cooper admitted life couldn’t be any sweeter. Less than a fortnight after being offered a professional contract by Oldham Athletic, the 18-year-old…

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IT’S HARDLY surprising new Sadddleworth Golf Club captain Gary Simpson is a top amateur player as he was named after legend Gary Player. “I was…

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LEARN TO sail in beautiful surroundings at Dovestone Sailing Club which is a Royal Yachting Association Training Centre. Dovestone Reservoir provides ideal sailing waters for all levels of ability so how about learning…

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Photo: Ady Kerry Photography/England and GB Hockey. IT HAS been a globetrotting start to 2013 for local hockey player Nicola White. The 25-year-old, who began…

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SADDLEWORTH POOL and Leisure Centre is one of the venues for  the ‘Striker 9’ awards scheme, a football skills training programme for young people in Oldham brought…

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SADDLEWORTH SCHOOL’S under-14 netball team has enjoyed another season laden with silverware. They are Greater Manchester County Champions, Greater Manchester Play-Off Champions, North Manchester County…

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Royce Franklin, a life member of the Association of Football Statisticians, digs up yet more fascinating facts about football As a football fanatic who watched…

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WASN’T IT Robert Browning who wrote, from a distant shore, something about the joys of being in England now that April’s there? He might not…

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EASTER HAS long been regarded as one of the defining periods of the football season with a number of fixtures crammed into a short period…

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THE START of the 2013 Saddleworth & District Cricket League season looks set to be delayed due to the unseasonal wintery conditions. Some grounds are…

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WATERHEAD WON their first piece of silverware of the season as they lifted the Standard Cup on Easter Monday. Coach Andy Sands was elated as…

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ANGEL CURTIS hardly lives up to her name after winning a world junior Thai boxing title at the age of 11 years. The youngster from…

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SADDLEWORTH SCHOOL has achieved recent sporting successes in athletics, basketball, gymnastics, netball and Rugby League. And the school’s top cricketers are off to Headingley in mid-March to receive specialist coaching…

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LATICS’ PLAYERS Cliff Byrne and Connor Brown visited Hodgeclough Primary, Moorside, which was hosting Oldham Athletic Community Trust’s half-term holiday activity programme. The players spoke…

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