JAMES RICHARDS looks at a team that have become stuck in English football’s third tier…

JAMES RICHARDS

THE name Pine Villa makes me think of a holiday lodge in the Alps but it is in fact the name under which Oldham Athletic were founded some 122 years ago.
The club from the greater Manchester town of Oldham, most famous for its Industrial Revolution history in cotton production, were founding members of the Premier League in 1993 but have now been in League One for a remarkable 21 years!
To put that into some perspective, when the Latics were relegated into...