Latics legend Roy is back with more incredible Boundary Park memories
Roy Butterworth, an 85-year-old stalwart volunteer and press officer for Oldham Athletic, has released a new book titled "Straight Outta Crompton – Memories from Boundary Park," chronicling his 60+ years with the club. The book covers key eras, figures, and events in the club's history, from the 1950s to the present, including highs like promotions and cup runs, and lows like relegations. All profits from the book will go to Maggie’s cancer charity.
Straight Outta Crompton: Roy Butterworth’s 60-Year Love Letter to Oldham Athletic
Oldham Athletic may have spent recent seasons in the National League, but one man has never dropped out of the top flight of club devotion.
Roy Butterworth, who turned 85 earlier this month, has served Oldham as volunteer, press officer, historian and match-day voice for more than six decades. His new book, Straight Outta Crompton - Memories from Boundary Park, distils that lifetime into 160 anecdote-packed pages.
Butterworth first watched the Latics demolish Chester 11-2 in the 1950s and joined the club in 1963 under chairman Harry Massey. He charts the technicolour Bates era - tangerine-and-blue shirts, the pioneering Boundary Bulletin programme and a club shop that opened long before merchandising became routine - and recalls launching Radio Latics from a broom-cupboard studio.
The 1970s brought Jimmy Frizzell, promotion to Division Two and, under Joe Royle, the pinnacle: a League Cup final appearance, an FA Cup semi-final and entry to the inaugural Premier League. Butterworth records each chairman with equal fairness, naming Ian Stott “probably the most successful” and praising current owner Frank Rothwell for restoring transparency: “What you see is what you get.”
Proceeds from the £10 volume, on sale at Boundary Park, go entirely to Maggie’s cancer charity - a final, selfless chapter from the club’s longest-serving storyteller.
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