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The Guardian - UK
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Oldham drop out of Football League after 115 years amid fierce protests

Oldham fans invade the pitch and hold up a banner aimed at owner Abdallah Lemsagam.
Oldham fans invade the pitch and hold up a banner aimed at owner Abdallah Lemsagam. Photograph: Lee Morris/PA

Oldham have been relegated from League Two after a badly interrupted 2-1 home defeat by Salford ended their 115-year stay in the Football League. The club have become the first club to have played in the Premier League to drop out of the top four divisions of the game in England.

The result was confirmed only after a pitch invasion at Boundary Park from hundreds of furious fans who held a banner that read “Get out of our club”, aimed at the owner, Abdallah Lemsagam.

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