thatirishguykev
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In the early 1990’s the landscape of English football was about to drastically change forever, just nobody knew it yet. The English Premier League started in the 1992-1993 season and since then 50 clubs have played in the highest division of English football.


Of those 50 teams Oldham Athletic hold the unwanted record of being the only team to have played in the Premier League since its foundation to have been relegated from the Football League.
 

The Latics spent two seasons in the Premier League between 1992 and 1994, narrowly surviving the first season on goal difference. Unfortunately, The Latics would taste relegation the following season and in the 3 decades that have followed since that relegation the club has been unable to stop their slide down the Football League pyramid which has culminated in their relegation to the National League. The club have had little success in their 128-year existence having never won the old First Division, the English Premier League, the FA Cup or League Cup.
 

At the end of this National League season regardless of promotion the club will have spent 29 years outside of the English top league. Young Australian manager Bravo Littleman is the latest man to try and turn the struggling fortunes of the once proud club around.

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