Fans don't like one another. People are protesting. The results got worse. The Football League lasted 116 years. The League Two season will be remembered for the wrong things.
It was the culmination of years of decline when the club was demoted for the second season in a row.
The Latics became the first ex-PL club to drop out of the league after being demoted.
They got to the lowest point in their history. What went wrong at the club was the subject of a conversation with those who know the club best.
The way in which they were demoted was particularly upsetting to their supporters.
The Latics needed to win to boost their chances of survival. The minimum requirement was to avoid defeat.
Fans went on the pitch in protest at the owner of the team. He has been at the club for close to five years.
The rest of the match was decided behind closed doors after the referee took the players off the pitch. Boundary Park was empty when the final whistle blew.
The league beckoned. It is possible to end more than a century in football.
When asked if he was worried about the future of the club, Andy said he was. Someone needs to put a small amount of money into the club. When the owner came in, the club needed more guidance and stability.
It makes me sad. It will be difficult to get back out of there.
The Latics were demoted to the National League. They were founding members of the League Cup finalist in 1990 and the Wembley FA Cup semi-finalists in 1994.
Thirty years after the formation of the top flight, Oldham will play football outside of the English top flight.
They have not fallen suddenly. They haven't finished in the top half of a division since 2009, and have been in the third tier for 21 years.
The board said they were devastated and that their immediate goal was to get back into the league.
At the first attempt, the club's manager will oversee the bid to return to League Two.
There were financial challenges before Lemsagam arrived.
The importance of winning an FA Cup replay against Mansfield was stressed by Lee Johnson.
He said that he was told that the club could go under if they did not win the game.
It was worth about £300,000 to $400,000 in revenue to get to that game and I'm not sure if that was a motivational technique or not.
The responsibility for that team talking at half-time was on my shoulders. We won the game and went to Anfield and had a great time.
The transfer fee for me was one of the reasons why I left the football club. These kinds of things don't come out often. It was important for the club to get the cash injection, even though you can be vilified.
Over the past couple of years, Lemsagam has faced a lot of protests from fans over his running of the club.
One of the recurring themes has been suggestions of interference with recruitment and team selection by the club's sporting director and Lemsagam's brother.
At the time of Lemsagam's arrival, Wellens was the manager, but he left at the end of the season.
"You have to give managers time, allow them to do the recruitment, allow managers to have the say on who's playing and not always have a pressure from above on who to pick or what system to pick," said Wellens.
Even if it's not a "you have to sign him", you don't need that as a manager.
You don't need the little comments or visits to your office every two minutes as a manager.
The Lemsagam brothers have made a lot of managerial appointments in a short period of time.
Paul was in charge for just 31 days. Banide left after the 11th game. The club announced Kewell's departure on a Sunday evening.
When they have a history of firing managers and bringing in new ones, it might work atChelsea. They have got a head of recruitment that stays the same.
It is not possible to do the job. There is only one way the club will go and that is on a downward spiral if you consistently have this.
The last day of January was when we went down. We tried to sign a few people that didn't come off.
"I'm going to the training ground the next day and I've heard that we've signed someone called Wilfried," he said. I'm not sure if I went to France to scout him. I've never heard of him. He is playing in a game in my first team.
Lemsagam's time as owner of Oldham Athletic has been plagued by a number of other issues.
A dispute over player wages during the coronavirus pandemic and an ongoing strained relationship with former player David Wheater overshadowed a stagnant few years for the club on the pitch.
Lemsagam and the club's previous owners have been at odds over the ownership of Boundary Park and the North Stand.
When Simon Corney took sole ownership of the Latics, his former co-owners issued a lease on the ground to the club.
The North Stand has been closed and re-opened over the past few years due to safety concerns, as well as legal issues, due to the fact that large parts of the ground are empty on match days.
Football has to stay at Boundary Park if Simon Corney stays or sells on, which was the topic of discussion when we were leaving.
The ground was up for sale at that point in time. It would be great if the owner bought the stadium at the same time.
Anyone who wants to buy the football club who wants to buy the stadium is welcome.
The row between Lemsagam and the club's former owners came to a head in 2020, with the club making an official complaint to Greater Manchester Police, revolving around funds supplied to build the North Stand.
The issue has been going on for two years and has led to the stand being closed.
Barry Owen is an advisor to the board and a former board member.
Owen said that the club was showing that the stand belonged to the football club. It's up to the courts to make a decision with the evidence.
We are not satisfied with the way that they operate.
We can't compromise that situation anymore. We don't need to use four sides of the ground because we have to save money.
It won't work in the National League as we did in the English League.
Three fans were banned from the club for promoting their dislike of the club, with one of them branding it a "dictatorship".
Football banning orders were not issued by the court. The damage was done after they were overturned.
Lemsagam said he would be willing to sell the club four months later.
The club is for sale. How did the relationship between the owners and supporters go from good to bad?
He decided not to listen to the supporters. He needed to hear what the people who were going in told him, not what the people who were not going in told him.
When he ignored that kind of advice, it turned into resentment and anger from the fans. You're done for when you lose the fans.
He had to listen. Any business is the same. What's going on to get your customers back is what you need to address.
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