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by Tony Bugby
Oldham Athletic is under new ownership after Abdallah Lemsagam’s takeover of the club was confirmed today at a news conference at SportsDirect.com Park.
The Dubai-based Lemsagan has been forced to relinquish his role as a football agent before being permitted to take charge of the EFL League One club.
Lemsagam has been in discussions with Oldham since August with the negotiations painstaking and often complicated before they were approved by the EFL.
by Paul Chan
YEOVIL TOWN 0, MANCHESTER UNITED 4
Jose Mourinho had even more to celebrate this week with an FA Cup victory over Yeovil Town in a week in which he turned 55, signed a new contract extension with Manchester United, snatched Alexis Sanchez from rivals Manchester City, and watched the Chilean lay on the ball that saw Marcus Rashford score after hesitation in the Yeovil defence shortly before the break.
Ander Herrera fired home the second just after the hour and although Juan Mata had a late effort disallowed for offside, Jesse Lingard hit a third a minute from time before Romelu Lukaku’s injury time tap-in completed the rout against their exhausted hosts.
by Tony Bugby
HYDE UNITED 5, MOSSLEY 1 YOU would imagined Mossley would have learned from their mistakes as they were heavily beaten at high-flying Hyde United in an Evo Stik League, first division north derby. That was not the case as Hyde’s first four goals all came from long balls over their defence as Mossley were caught […]
by Tony Bugby
SHREWSBURY TOWN 2, OLDHAM ATHLETIC 1 The dream of a Wembley appearance disappeared as Oldham Athletic lost at Shrewsbury Town in the quarter finals of the Checkatrade Trophy. Latics were undone by goals early – after only 16 seconds from Stefan Payne – and late in the game by substitute Alex Rodman as they were […]
by Paul Chan
BRISTOL CITY 2, MANCHESTER CITY 3
(MAN CITY WIN 5-3 ON AGGREGATE TO GO TO THE FINAL OF THE CARABAO CUP)
There was a final flourish to this Carabao Cup semi final as Bristol City went into the final minute of injury time at the end of this contest still needing just one goal to force extra time before Kevin De Bruyne finally shut the door on the brave Robins who had played a full part in their two games against runaway Premier League leaders Manchester City.