I was reflecting on how little our young Hepworth United Football Club members (or indeed some of our grown ups!!) will know about the Geography of Britain (or indeed anywhere else). So what better than to bring a little illumination into their day, as I consider a couple of football derbies from over the Pennines.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chJ1e1Sqle8 This is a 4th Tier game, the Manchester "suburban" derby at Moor Lane, The Peninsular Stadium (known as this for advertising reasons), between Salford City FC and Oldham Athletic FC. Their previous game on 25th January 2020, ended 1-1, with the "new boys", Salford City taking the lead, only for Oldham to reply later in the game.
This derby attracted over 3,000 at the Peninsular Stadium, a neat little ground, with a capacity of 5,000. The owners of the club, you will remember are the Man Utd lot; Project '92; the Nevilles, Giggs, Scholes BUT Peter Lim seems to be the real money behind the club. A Singaporean, having been educated at the University of Western Australia, with a Business degree! (hard to believe). He has invested in a variety of commodities, from palm oil to medicines. He also owns CF Valencia, although all is not well with this financing at the mo. The Australian link at Oldham strenghtens with Harry Kewell, appointed as Head Coach.
Salford City, of course, have only been a Football League club since 2018-19. The two clubs therefore, will only have met four times, following today's game. Their first meeting, a seasonable derby, was on 29th December 2019 at Oldham, with Salford winning 1-4. The return game was a 1-1 draw. The two met earlier this season, on 31st October 2020, at Salford, with the home team winning 2-0.
The two met this afternoon (30th January 2021) at Oldham, who were 15th in Division One, with 13 points, at the start of the day. Salford were 7th in the Division with 7 points. Today's result was a 2-1 win to Oldham, (scoring a 90+2 minute winner) so those division places will be adjusted a touch.
The Oldham Athletic club, whose home ground is Boundary Park, was founded in 1895, originally known as Pine Villa FC, changing to their present name in 1899.
They joined the Football League in 1907-8. Their closest neighbours are; Rochdale, Manchester City, Man Utd, Bolton W, Accrington S, Blackburn R, Burnley, Bury and due to the M62 Derby-Huddersfield Town, though thankfully they don't meet all of these two often. Bolton and Salford are closest geographically.
Below are the Oldham chaps in 1905, playing in the Lancashire Combination, their first competition.
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