Category: Sport

SPRINGHEAD’S CHRIS Taylor admits that playing at Wembley only 10 months after leaving Latics was beyond his wildest dreams. “It was an unbelievable experience and…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

SADDLEWORTH RANGERS’ first team can get off to a flying start in the National Conference League 2013 believes coach Emmerson Jackman. The campaign season kicks…

Saddleworth Rangers have expanded their coaching team ahead of the new season as they prepare to battle in the National Conference Division One in March.…