If PSG’s conquest of Europe was further evidence of elite football’s grotesque repudiation of the norms that birthed it, Oldham’s “non-league” epic against Southend might be seen as an emphatic restating of the game’s core values.
Oldham players celebrate winning the National League play-off final (Photo: Getty)
This is no longer a sum that troubles him, but his sensitivity to it acknowledged the connectivity of club and community, a bond that has been utterly swept away by the billions distorting the competition at the top end of the game.
Oldham, on the other hand, could not survive without the cash that trickles down through the ecosystem, notwithstanding Rothwell’s generosity. They and Southend were fighting for survival as much as glory. PSG were simply hoovering the rewards of a playing field that state ownership helped to skew in their favour.
Thus the team is the engine of vital community regeneration. In Paris, the principle is turned on its head since the team’s purpose is not to serve the French capital but to aggrandise the state of Qatar. I doubt the Emir, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, was taking calls from reporters on the way back from Munich.
Thousands of Oldham fans were in attendance at Wembley on Saturday (Photo: Getty)“Hello Frank, it’s Kevin Garside from The i Paper. Where are you now?”
“Oh, I’m sorry, Frank.”
Well, that’s two wins in one day.
“At 2-1 down in extra-time it meant we had to win 2-0 from there. I thought that’s not going to be happening. To get two in less than half an hour when there wasn’t much between the teams I didn’t think was possible.
“How does Judith feel?”
“Hello Judith. Ok, what does this mean to you?”
“You must be exhausted.”
“My voice is,” she said.
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“We didn’t have time in the early days. It’s only been the last 15 years,” she said.
“That’s what we have worked at. Oldham council have been very good with us and we all want to make Oldham a better place for people to live.”
“I’m speechless,” Mellon said. “This is what it’s all about if you’re on the winning side of it.
“We were under pressure, we needed to go up, it makes so much difference to everything. We can really build forward. Everything changes now. What a day. It will never leave you, this day.”
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