BOUNDARY SPARKS

Oldham's cup exploits this season have brought back the 1989-90 campaign and an unlikely trip from Pennine Way to Wembley Way. ALEX DUNN walked down memory lane with The Latics' captain of the time, MIKE MILLIGAN.

IN an era when football clubs all too often spend like Viv Nicholson, with similar consequences, the story of Oldham Athletic's frugal ascent from perennial Greater Manchester footnotes to one of the early 90s' more iconic sides seems all the more remarkable.

Oldham lineup 

The previous season Oldham had finished an unremarkable 16th in the then Second Division but al...

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