Wet, Windy, and Utterly Brilliant



If Saturday was sunshine and sentiment, Tuesday was a completely different beast. Wet, windy, miserable — the kind of night that had already cancelled this fixture back in January. Didn’t look much better second time around. Watching from home tonight. But Boundary Park doesn’t do things by halves, and neither do this Oldham side.

Four Minutes

That’s all it took.

Payne picks it up in our half, slides it through to Drummond, who breaks on the counter and runs half the pitch before finding the back of the net. His 6th of the season. Four minutes gone.

🎶 Drummond on fire! 🎶

🎶 Eieieio, up the football league we go 🎶

The rain could do one.

Oldham Turn the Screw

What followed was Oldham at their relentless best. High press, hungry for every ball, keeping Notts County pinned back and rattled. Hudson made a smart save when they did threaten on 11 minutes, but honestly it was all Oldham.

Fondop was getting fouled every time he got near the ball — two bookings for Notts County just from fouls on him alone. Drummond getting pulled back earning another yellow. The cards were stacking up and the pressure was building.

Half time. 1-0. All very much under control.

Red Card and the Floodgates Open

Two minutes into the second half and Woods is hacked down. Second yellow for the Notts County man. Down to ten. 🔴

Could we take advantage?

Oh yes.

55 minutes — Notts County break from a corner but we hit them on the counter. Robson to Payne, shot palmed away, and Fondop is there to tap home. 2-0.

🎶 Fondop again, olé olé 🎶

🎶 We’re on our way to League One, we’re on our way 🎶

🎶 Hello hello, Oldham are back 🎶

And then — an absolutely awful back pass that Fondop pounces on and tucks away. 3-0. 69 minutes gone. Easy when you’re this good 😄

Winding Down

Woods and Stevens made way for Hammond and Hawkes on 75 minutes. Then at 82, Drummond and Fondop were taken off — Taylor and Garner coming on to see it home. No hat trick for Fondop tonight, but the fans gave both him and Drummond a brilliant send off as they made their way round the pitch back to the bench. Proper warm scenes on a freezing night.

The Record Books

8 clean sheets from the last 9 games. 18 for the season in total — equalling the club record.

Hudson. Honestly. What a keeper. What a season.

The table’s moving. The chants are getting louder. The rain can’t stop us.

Up to 9th in the league. After the season we’ve had, that feels like the dizzy heights. And you know what? We’ll take every single metre of it.

Come on you Blues 💙

💙🔵⚪️ #OAFC

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