Boreham Wood v Oldham / Halifax v Dorking 2nite

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Boreham Wood started off the season well, but have slipped up and middling in the National League. Once top-flight, Oldham Athletic continue their slide into oblivion. Issues with ownership and Management has seen fans witness the collapse of their club. Sitting second-bottom - Oldham are 5 points off 20th place Maidstone.

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FC Halifax is the reborn Halifax Town, who crashed spectacularly with debts of almost eight-hundred thousand £££ to the Inland Revenue in 2008. They have a steady fan base and are solvent. The aim is to get back into the league.Pre-covid they lost to Boreham Wood in the play-offs!
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19th November 2022.

16,511 - Notts County Smash National League Maximum Attendance Record

Its remarkable - in the fifth tier of English football - far below the "Super league" wannabees, the big TV money deals and over-inflated salaries: the National League has 13 former Football League Clubs in its ranks. The overwhelming majority of Clubs are full-time professional. Attendances equal anything in EFL League`s One and Two. Teams like Notts County and Wrexham can match some Championship clubs. The previous National League Record was also held by Notts County, when they played Solihull Moors on a night in the 2021 / 22 season - when 12,843 attended.
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Oldham drop out of Football League after 115 years amid fierce protests

Oldham have been relegated from League Two after a badly interrupted 2-1 home defeat by Salford ended their 115-year stay in the Football League
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22nd April 2022

Oldham drop out of Football League after 115 years amid fierce protests​

  • Oldham relegated from League Two after 2-1 defeat by Salford
  • Fans carry banner on pitch telling owners: ‘Get out of our club’
Oldham fans invade the pitch and hold up a banner aimed at owner Abdallah Lemsagam.

Oldham fans invade the pitch and hold up a banner aimed at owner Abdallah Lemsagam. Photograph: Lee Morris/PA

Oldham have been relegated from League Two after a badly interrupted 2-1 home defeat by Salford ended their 115-year stay in the Football League. The club have become the first club to have played in the Premier League to drop out of the top four divisions of the game in England.

The result was confirmed only after a pitch invasion at Boundary Park from hundreds of furious fans who held a banner that read “Get out of our club”, aimed at the owner, Abdallah Lemsagam.
Oldham fans protest against the owner, Abdallah Lemsagam, during last Saturday’s 4-0 defeat at Leyton Orient.

‘Ticking timebomb’: Oldham braced for more protests amid sorry decline

Earlier, supporters had chanted: “We want our club back,” and: “We’re not going anywhere,” as stewards struggled to maintain order.

Both sets of players were escorted off the field by the referee, Bobby Madley, with the last of the protesters then not leaving the pitch for almost an hour. The match was then initially abandoned before the final 12 minutes were played out behind closed doors, eventually resulting in the Latics’ fourth straight defeat.
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[Oldham v Liverpool in the Premier League]

In a statement, the EFL said: “Despite the earlier announcement of the abandonment of the fixture, after discussions with both clubs, match officials, and stadium security it was agreed the match could be concluded today.

“The decision was taken in order to maintain the integrity of the competition given the importance of the fixture at both ends of the League Two table.”

Oldham, who had issues with pitch invasions earlier in the season, are now likely to see the misery of relegation followed by punishment from both the Football Association and the EFL.

Oldham’s Nicky Adams and Christopher Missilou talk to fans who invaded the pitch at Boundary Park.

Oldham’s Nicky Adams and Christopher Missilou talk to fans who invaded the pitch at Boundary Park. All three goals in the game came in the first half, with Matt Smith – a former Oldham player – and Brandon Thomas-Asante scoring for the visitors either side of Davis Keillor-Dunn’s penalty for the hosts after Jordan Turnbull was judged to have handled the ball.

The Latics’ relegation rivals Barrow and Stevenage won their games, beating promotion-chasing Sutton and Tranmere respectively, taking them both to 44 points – second-bottom Oldham are on 37 with only two games and six points still to play for.

Their slide down the divisions began in 1994, when they matched their 1990 run to the FA Cup semi-finals but finished second-bottom after three seasons in the top tier. Three years later, in 1997, the late-season appointment of Neil Warnock failed to yield the results they needed to stave off another relegation.
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Relative stability followed, with 21 seasons spent in the third tier of English football, including chances in the playoffs in 2003 and 2007, which both ended at the semi-final stage. However, in 2018 the club dropped to League Two and four years on their decline means they will play in the National League from next season.
 
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Goal!

Halifax 2 Dorking 0
Kian Spence after 58 minutes
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Goal!

Halifax 3 Dorking 0
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Goal!

Oldham equaliser.
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1-1 with six minutes of normal time remaining.
 
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The Oldham slump continues
Conceding in injury time - they could have done with that point.
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Upcoming National League Fixtures

Woking face a tough fixture against York City - who held Wrexham to a draw last time out - allowing Notts to retain top spot with a 4-1 victory at Scunthorpe. Chesterfield - having spent a lot of money pre-season had a good start, but are 8 behind Notts and 7 behind Wrexham.
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Not Oldham related but really hoping that Scunthorpe's take over changes the projection of their season. A club that was rinsed dry by Peter Swann. I'm told that local and national sponsors have been clambering to get in touch with the club for renewed sponsorship deals that were left to be null and void under Swann.

Local contractors also volunteering to complete work on Glanford Park as it had been left to rack and ruin.

A club like Scunthorpe should not be loitering around the relegation zone in the National League.
 
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