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Ask a gambling man just why he does it, and he’ll probably slap you in the face because he’s drunk, and then start muttering something about risky business giving you a head-rush that no drug can match.

Hence, there will be some dizzy minds and swimming eyeballs over in the Oldham Athletic boardroom this summer, after promises were made for a 100 per cent refund to season ticket holders, should England come home with the World Cup.

As reported on Yahoo Sport today, Latics’ marketing man, Guy Walker, said this:

Eastenders viewing figures not under threat this evening

Tranmere Rovers vs. Stockport County (7.45pm, Sky Sports 1)
Tranmere play their first game without the recently sacked John Barnes, as club physio Les Parry attempts a Nigel Adkins by trading the magic sponge for the tactics board in the guise of caretaker boss.

Both sides have struggled of late: the hosts have just one win in their last 11 while Stockport have won just once on the road in the league since February. Stockport sit 20th in the table and Tranmere occupy 22nd, making it a potential six pointer for the relegation candidates.

Oldham Ath Reserves vs. Manchester Utd Reserves (7pm, MUTV)
United reserves are looking to defend the Manchester Senior Cup for the third year running and tonight come up against Oldham. On paper, it may not sound like the most riveting

LA lady explains her crazy journey exclusively to The Spoiler

Those who can remember back to last week may recall a story we published about a pair of Californian cheerleaders, who traded the elegance of Beverly Hills for the inelegance of Greater Manchester, flying 11,000 miles to watch Oldham Athletic.

Sara Mathew, one half of the intrepid globe travelling team, read our piece and emailed us (and if you think that’s the first time an attractive Californian cheerleader has tried to get our attention with unsolicited emails you’d be, er, quite right). Sara rose above our immature scathing tone, and as a sign of what a good sport she is, agreed to write us an account of how she met The Latics’ finest and ended up standing outside Boundary Park in the pouring rain…

The question I get asked most often, one that seems to be solicited by a broad range of individuals - spanning from 13-year-olds who collect football cards on the playground to 45-year-olds who collect football cards in their mother’s basement - is what happened with the Oldham footballers on holiday that propelled my friend and I to make the transatlantic voyage to watch them play. I was recently asked about this on talkSPORT, and did a sort of lyrical ballet around the question. This is partially because I’m shy and guarded and part because I take mild offense to spoofs of myself on football blogs where I am replaced in pictures by Sacramento Cheerleaders downing cheap crystal [we have literally no idea what she’s referring to here - Ed.].

I first met the boys at “The Palms,” a beach bar