David ELSE

Long suffering Latics and Roughyeds fan, they will be good eventually.

[David ELSE @DavidELSE13]

@OafcPodcast My attempt at a Fan video thought I'd spend my time creating something at least for me, rather than causing twitter fights with two morons like last night. It's from the heart forgive the rambling. #oafc #Abdallahout

https://t.co/PcTTtkKWNv

[Oldham Athletic @OfficialOAFC]

🩹 The club has a new vacancy for a part-time Academy physiotherapist. #oafc

[Oldham Athletic @OfficialOAFC]

🏡 @OAFCAcademy are looking for host families to support our scholars during the new season. #oafc

[David ELSE @DavidELSE13]

@nicktheblue71 @Roughyeds the home ground(s) were never available in June because of pitch maintenance.

[David ELSE @DavidELSE13]

@Tip_Man_Tips Go on tipman

[David ELSE @DavidELSE13]

@TipsterCharlie Thanks Charlie

[Oldham Athletic @OfficialOAFC]

01.06.2025

💙 The day history found its heroes. #oafc

[OAFC26 @oafc24]

One year ago. All timer away game #oafc

[Raja Miah @recusant_raja]

The MEN: Greater Manchester's Ministry of Propaganda

The Manchester Evening News has contacted me with a list of allegations it intends to publish. It is attempting to smear and silence me at the same time as promoting Andy Burnham in his bid to become MP.

https://t.co/0z2GdvbEM0

[Oldham Athletic @OfficialOAFC]

🎙️ "Neil Redfearn can win the title for Oldham..."

💫 A memory that still means everything, #OnThisDay 35 years ago. #oafc

[David ELSE @DavidELSE13]

@razza_699 I support both i want both to prosper really sad the way things have gone over the last 12 months, and I do believe Bill Quinn is quite poorly. New regime desperately needed but do take this report with a pinch of salt think most of his information is of rugby message boards

[David ELSE @DavidELSE13]

@FranceOAFC @oldhamfanmedia Think your being polite Chris won’t forgive him for how he dealt with Hammond dislocating his shoulder at Harrogate in a league of shit refs he’s top of the class

[David ELSE @DavidELSE13]

@AaronDiskin1 I think that gets rescinded on appeal it was just an accidental clash of heads

[David ELSE @DavidELSE13]

I have a spare ticket for tonights game can meet at the ground if anyone wants it, just send us a message #oafc

[Raja Miah @recusant_raja]

A building collapsed in the centre of Oldham on Tuesday. Five people were injured. Two were taken to hospital. Workers were inside when it came down. Members of the public were steps away. It is a miracle no one died. The building owner called the event 'unfortunate'.

The property at 31 King Street is owned by a company whose director is Kamran Ghafoor.

Ghafoor is a serving Oldham councillor, leader of the Oldham Group, officially aligned with @georgegalloway's Workers Party, he sits on the very council that carries enforcement responsibility for dangerous buildings in this borough. He has previously been prosecuted over housing offences connected to properties he owned.

Inside the council chamber, elected members who sit alongside him branded him a slum landlord. He remained in post. Ghafoor's brother appeared on Greater Manchester Police's most wanted list. Cllr Kammy G has yet to condemn him. His Deputy Leader's brother is a convicted international drug runner. Not one councillor in the town dare raise this. No surprise then, that a convicted heroin dealer and getaway driver for a cop killer is now running for election in the town.

Representing one of the poorest wards in the country. Kammy G drives around the town in a supercar. It appears as though he has a fleet of them. Previously, he was criticised for leaving his Rolls Royce parked next to the town's war memorial. He then changed his Rolls for a German Porsche and parked that there instead. No, I'm not making any of this up, he even posed for a picture with it next to the war memorial, such is his power.

The Council Knew This Building Was Dangerous Before It Fell
Works were underway to address structural concerns already identified before Tuesday. A neighbouring property had been demolished years earlier, leaving the exposed wall to deteriorate.

The risk was known before a single worker went inside.

Someone identified it, decided repairs were needed, commissioned them, and sent workers in. While those workers were inside a building already flagged as structurally compromised, it came down.

Someone made a decision about that building and got it catastrophically wrong.

The Law Makes Clear Who Bears Responsibility
The Building Act 1984 requires dangerous structures to be made safe before anyone is put at risk. The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 places explicit legal obligations on those who commission construction works to keep workers and the public safe.

These laws exist because buildings that fall on people tend to kill them. Tuesday was luck. The kind that does not come twice.

Neither the HSE Nor Greater Manchester Police Have Confirmed They Are Investigating. Why?
When a building collapses during active construction works in the UK, the investigation cannot sit with the local authority. The Health and Safety Executive holds primary jurisdiction. If criminal negligence is in question, @gmpolice must be involved.

Neither body has publicly confirmed a formal investigation has been opened.

@OldhamCouncil cannot investigate a collapse involving one of its own sitting councillors. Ghafoor cannot be permitted to shelter behind the protection that holding office in this borough affords him. The bodies with actual teeth must now use them.

If the HSE has not opened a formal investigation, that decision requires a public explanation.

Ghafoor Has Been Protected Long Enough
The people Ghafoor represents live in the kind of housing linked to his property interests. They have no lawyers and no way to force an inquiry. They depend entirely on public institutions to enforce the law without calculating whether Ghafoor is worth protecting.

The enforcement record against him does not suggest those institutions have been rushing.

Prior housing prosecutions are on his record. His brother was named on Greater Manchester Police's published most wanted list. The words slum landlord were put on the public record by his own council colleagues, in his presence, and he carried on regardless. He drives a supercar through streets his constituents cannot afford to heat their homes on.

A building he owns fell in the middle of Oldham and put people in hospital. The local college is yards away.

The HSE and Greater Manchester Police must open formal investigations now. If they do not, the question stops being about Kamran Ghafoor. It becomes about them.
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[David ELSE @DavidELSE13]

@LTBowker @OfficialOAFC @bencourtney77 lol ok pal offended by my opinion then

[David ELSE @DavidELSE13]

@LTBowker @OfficialOAFC @bencourtney77 Yes i was watching

https://t.co/S44YcWEnYH

[Oldham Athletic @OfficialOAFC]

⚡️ In a flash. #oafc

[David ELSE @DavidELSE13]

@LTBowker @OfficialOAFC @bencourtney77 passed him by? most nonesense opinion of the season so you keep to it

[David ELSE @DavidELSE13]

@LTBowker @OfficialOAFC @bencourtney77 take it you didnt go then, brilliant assist for the 1st goal and then was involved in everything else we created.

[Oldham Athletic @OfficialOAFC]

THREE. MASSIVE. POINTS. #oafc

[David ELSE @DavidELSE13]

Wow…. Would love my rugby club back, but all this man needs is a red fleece #oafc

[Oldham RLFC @Roughyeds]

Chairman Bill Quinn has issued an update to supporters.