On Saturday, Wigan Athletic play host to Dundee United at the DW Stadium. It will be their final warm-up fixture before the Championship season starts for the at Barnsley on August 3rd. By the time it gets to the final pre-season game a manager tends to have a good idea of what his first choice […]
Wigan Athletic continued their run of pre-season victories with a win over Atromitos at Leigh Sports Village. The Athens-based team, also competing in Europe, promised to give Wigan a stern test and so it was to prove. Despite standing on a 2-0 lead at half time, Wigan must have been glad to hear the […]
The spectacular fireworks that followed Latics 4-1 win over the Pittsburgh Riverhounds provided a fitting finale for the first phase Owen Coyle’s revolution at Wigan. It is only around five weeks since the effervescent Scotsman took over at the club, but a lot has happened in that time. To be honest, Coyle’s appointment […]
Wigan Athletic got their pre-season match preparations underway with a 2-1 win in Columbus, Ohio. Latics looked in control from the start. After a pedestrian first half in which neither side looked like scoring, Wigan were 2-0 in front when a deflected goal got the home team back in the game after […]
“This year gives us our best opportunity to get back into the Premier League. Financially we have an advantage over the other clubs because it is a significant amount of money. We want to get back first time for a number of reasons. But financially it makes sense.”
Yesterday, a player known in some circles as Perchinho became the latest of Wigan Athletic’s new signings. He could well become a key piece in the jigsaw puzzle that Owen Coyle is putting together to get Latics back into the Premier League. Despite the nickname, Perchinho is not a flamboyant Brazilian who will help Latics maintain […]
What a breath of fresh air Owen Coyle has brought to Wigan. Like him or loathe him he cannot be criticized for sitting on his backside and waiting for things to happen. Within the place of week he has signed two new players who look like a really good fit for the club. At […]
It is time for change at Wigan Athletic with a new manager having come in, with a huge quantity of new players to recruit. It is exactly the situation Latics supporters would have wanted to avoid. There are too many change parameters to cope with at the moment. What is going to happen to […]
Why has there been such an angry backlash from Wigan Athletic supporters on Owen Coyle’s appointment? Well, it seemed to take an eternity for Roberto Martinez to finally go and the recruitment process to begin. Things seemed to be perking up when we heard about a quality field of applicants for the position. Our hopes were […]
“I have tried to stay away from managers who are in work at the moment because there is a fee involved with those.” So said Dave Whelan, according to a report from a national newspaper on Wednesday. It seemed a strange thing to say, but maybe the comment was taken out of context. True that […]