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"He's the reason that we've got a club this season," sing the Oldham Athletic fans to owner Frank Rothwell. And they're right.
Twelve months ago on Friday, Rothwell and his family completed the long-anticipated takeover of the beleaguered club. Oldham had just been relegated to the National League, becoming the first side to drop from the Premier League out of the English Football League completely.
Fans had taken to boycotting Oldham games and invading the Boundary Park pitch in protest at the ownership of former football agent Abdallah Lemsagam. The Moroccan's controversial tenure had been plagued with controversies from unpaid wages, scores of players arriving, a high turnover of managers, banning fans, and off-the-pitch legal battles that saw Oldham drop from League One to non-league.
After the protests finally persuaded Lemsagam to walk away, fans were hoping for someone to come along and save their club. For a time, nobody did, until Rothwell and his family stepped in, investing a reported £12m to buy the club and the land. A year on, Oldham couldn't be in a more different position.
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"Supporters were hoping someone like me would come along and the chances of that happening were very small," Rothwell tells MEN Sport. "I'd been in discussions with other business people talking about forming a consortium, about helping the club out from the situation it was in, but there was never any enthusiasm at all. Really, if we hadn't done what we did, it was extinction time. It was going to be the same outcome as Bury. Luckily we were able to do a deal with both parties."
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