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Stranded in the Atlantic Ocean 400 miles off the Antigua coast isn’t exactly where you would expect to find a football club chairman – but then there’s no-one quite like Oldham Athletic’s Frank Rothwell.
Pride of

By Matthew Luddington

ABLE SEAMAN: Oldham Athletic owner Frank Rothwell checks out his boat for size ahead of his latest Atlantic row

STRANDED in the Atlantic Ocean 400 miles off the Antigua coast isn’t exactly where you would expect to find a football club chairman – but then there’s no-one quite like Oldham Athletic’s Frank Rothwell.
The 73-year-old Latics owner made history as the oldest man to row across the Atlantic unassisted threee years ago, covering a remarkable 3,000 miles from the Canary Islands to Antigua
and raising an impressive £1.1 million for Alzheimer Research. And n...

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