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Celebrating CMS's late winner (copyright S Turner)

With four minutes left it looked like Millwall and MKD were going to close the gap to Posh.  Then, in one of those wonderfully chaotic defensive disasters, Oldham’s right back Eardley and keeper Supple couldn’t work out who should deal with an aimless punt and Craig Mackail-Smith simply waltzed around them both to tap the ball into an unguarded net.

Joe Royle thought the result was unfair.  Posh had dominated the first half and CMS’s first goal on 26 minutes should have been followed by two or three more.  Oldham’s equaliser by Taylor two minutes before half time was immediately followed by another ‘goal’ from Allesandra, but the ref saw a foul in the build up and Posh fans could breathe again.

Meanwhile Leicester came from behind to lead Carlisle briefly at the Walkers Stadium only for Dobie to equalise two minutes into injury time.  Posh need 11 points to clinch automatic promotion.

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Almost 80 years to the day, in a small terraced house on the outskirts of Oldham, Bernard Cribbins was born. Famous for narrating The Wombles, Cribbins would have been amused to see the rubbish on display at London Road today.  Posh have a reputation now for making good use of the things that we find, and on 12 minutes a McLean cross found and made good use of opposition defender Stefan Stam, who put the ball in his own net to leave Oldham behind.  Posh were then given 2 penalties, the first taken by McLean was saved then Mackail-Smith took the second, hitting the post before McLean slotted home the rebound.  Lee Hughes has previously spent 3 years in prison, dreaming of wombling free, and it was he that scored twice to level the match. After 70 minutes or so Shaun Batt, son of the legendary Mike Batt, was replaced by Green who later on cleared the ball off the line to prevent Oldham winning it at the death.  The game disappointingly finished at 2-2, although even more disappointing was my inability to find puns or analogies for Tobermory, Orinoco and Madame Cholet. Anyway, I hope you all have a Wombling Merry Christmas.