CHAIRMAN'S EDITORIAL

Dear Fellow Supporters,

Welcome back from your spring break. Hope you weren't too lonely with there being no meeting last week. Not much news to report other than team news (see Latics Bits).

Don't forget to keep up with events through the LSC web page. If (heaven forbid) you should miss a meeting you can still check your seniority or see some of the programme highlights that you missed. By the time you read this we should have had over 1000 visits, quite a milestone, and we will publish some of the guestbook entries on a regular basis. Don't forget to sign the guestbook and add your number too.

Today sees the return of the Latics Fanatics with our featured Fanatic none other than Mr. Perpetual Motion, Tom Wright. If you wish to nominate either yourself or a friend as a Latics Fanatic see the Chairman for a nomination form. Congratulations must also go out to Dave Car who won our Annual St. Patrick's Day Draw at the last meeting. ERIN GO BRAIGH!

The Chairman.

Since our last meeting the team have played three home games and fortunes have been mixed. It started well but went progressively worse. The first game was on 15th. March against Wolverhampton Wanderers, the team with the best away record in the division, and resulted in a remarkable and unexpected 3-2 victory. The following Tuesday saw Latics beating Charlton Athletic (there's only one Athletic) 1-0 and another three points towards safety until the 89th. minute when Charlton equalised. Last Sunday in a 'live' televised game against Crystal Palace the team lost 0-1 to a third minute goal from McKenzie (not Norm). On Saturday the lads begin the run in to the seasons end with a trip to Stoke City. With seven matches remaining it is crucial to make a good showing as we don't want to be meeting near the end of the season with black arm bands on. Come on you blues!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ANOTHER disgruntled Oldham Athletic supporter was shown the red card after holding his own one-man protest during Saturday's home defeat against Grimsby. The man walked on to the pitch from the Rochdale Road end of the ground, and gestured towards the stand where chairman Ian Stott and manager Graeme Sharp, were sitting. Stewards and police officers then led him away from the playing area. His protest follows Danny Standring’s sit-down demonstration in the centre circle in the game against Ipswich Town last August. Athletic is now rooted at the bottom of the First Division without a win in 1997. but it was confirmed today the club will not face FA action over the incident.

The pitch intruder has been charged with walking onto the playing area and will appear before Oldham Magistrates on March 3rd. One consolation for him was that he received the biggest cheer of the day from the Oldham supporters.

Aberdeen F. C. are the next team to be honoured by a mention in our Football Club Badges. The Dons (sometimes known as The Granite Kipper) recently changed their famous badge to the one below due to Billy Dodds missing so many goals.

Uppingham School 1862

1. A goal is scored whenever the ball is forced through the goal and under the bar, except it be thrown by the hand.
2. Hands may he used only to stop a ball and place it on ground before the feet.
3. Kicks must be aimed only at the ball.
4. A player may not kick the ball whilst in the air.
5. No tripping up or heel kicking allowed.
6. Whenever a ball is kicked beyond the side flags, it must be returned by the player who kicked it, from the spot it passed the flag-line in a straight line towards the middle of the ground.
7. When a ball is kicked behind the line of goal, it shall be kicked off from that line by one of the side whose goal it is.
8. No player may stand within six places of the kicker when he is kicking off.
9. A player is out of play immediately he is in front of the ball and must return behind the ball as soon as possible. If the ball is kicked by his own side past a player, he may not touch it, or advance, until one of the other side has first kicked it, or one of his own side, having followed it up, has been able, when in front of him, to kick it.
10. No charging is allowed when a player is out of play - i.e. immediately the ball is behind him.

Without the Greeks we wouldn't have history. The Greeks invented three kinds of columns, Corinthian, Doric, and Ironic. They also had myths. A myth is a female moth. One myth says that the mother of Achilles dipped him in the River Stynx until he became intollerable. Achilles appears in The Iliad, by Homer. Homer also wrote The Oddity, in which Penelope was the last hardship that Ulysses endured on his journey. Actually, Homer was not written by Homer but by another man of that name.

Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people advice. They killed him. Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock. In the Olympic games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled the biscuits, and threw the java. The reward to the victor was a coral wreath. The government of Athens was democratic because people took the law into their own hands. There were no wars in Greece, as the mountains were so high that they couldn't climb over to see what their neighbours were doing. When they fought with the Persians, the Greeks were outnumbered because the Persians had more men.

NAME: Tom Wright
No. IN SENIORITY: 6
NUMBER OF YEARS SUPPORTING LATICS: 7
FIRST ATTENDANCE AT A MEETING: Sept. 1990
CURRENT FAVOURITE LATICS PLAYER/SUPPORTER: The Chairman
ALL TIME FAVOURITE LATICS PLAYER/SUPPORTER: The Chairman
WHERE DO YOU NORMALLY SIT AT THE MEETING?: Near the food. I tend to eat a lot.
FUNNIEST INCIDENT AT A MEETING: The Chairman counting the bones on my plate. There were only 36!
BEST MOMENT: Arriving at the meeting at the same time as the food
WORST MOMENT: Getting a yellow card
HOW COULD YOU WROVE THE MEETINGS: Have food constantly coming to the table
ARE YOU SATISFIED WITH THE AMENITIES?: The food’s good
WHAT HAS PLEASED YOU MOST ABOUT THE CLUB: Having a warm place to eat the food (and nice surroundings).
ARE YOU IN FAVOUR OF A SUPER LEAGUE?: I would prefer a super-sized sub sandwich
IF YOU COULD CHANGE ANYTHNG IN FOOTBALL SUPPORTING WHAT WOULD IT BE?: No relegation for the top six.
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: Anybody got any spare food?

1, He's not French
2, He has not played for Leeds Utd.
3, He wears clothes properly
4, His hair looks really cool when he heads the ball
5, Most Latics girl fans faint at his feet
6, He doesn't openly admit to liking poetry
7, He hasn't sold his soul to the god of advertising
8, He makes Nicky Banger look like a great player
9, He dedicated his Lancashire's Footballer of the Year award to Nelson Mandela
10, He once commented that Liverpool were a good side