Similar to what he did at Crawley Town, Harry Kewell after a slow start at Oldham Athletic is beginning to get them going despite a shoestring budget there. It's a long time since any manager has had any real success at Oldham (Joe Royle!), but the first baby steps forward are being made.

I thought at the time and I still believe that Alan Hardy's sacking of Kewell after a handful of games was ridiculous even by Notts County's brainless standards, especially given the vague reasoning that he had apparently unsettled some of the players. Quite frankly, that was what was needed after the sloppy habits and attitude that crept in during the latter Nolan days.

I would suggest that we would have been better off keeping Kewell and getting rid of some of those players, because they were the real reason we went down. I know we didn't have much money to replace them, but Kewell would probably have been better served by some of the youth team than the likes of David Vaughan and Noor Husin.