I can't say I remember. I was but a twinkle in Pon Senior's eye at the time.
I do remember, though, exactly where I was and what I was doing when the Bahraini takeover was announced. I imagine I felt something similar on hearing that news... the certainty that our club really was still going to exist next season, after almost a year of that being at some points a pretty forlorn hope rather than a likely outcome... that feeling was as good as anything I've ever felt as a Latics fan.