'The place is like a big family. Everyone's in it together': Inside Oldham's promotion push - why fans are flocking to games, sponsors are quitting Man United to join the party and how the club is 're
‘Football has stopped’ is the often-repeated moan from the Premier League hordes whenever an international break halts the superstars and their legions of fans in their tracks. There is life outside the Premier League. There is life outside the Championship and there is even life outside League One. Pre kick-off, the lifelong Latics fan, who co-hosts the Boundary Park Alert System podcast, explains: ‘The price, the atmosphere and VAR is turning people off the Premier League. You just don’t get that at the top.’I tell him it angers me when people ask who my Premier League team is, apparently unable to grasp that there isn’t one.
Source: Metro March 25, 2026 16:33 UTC
