A lovely trip to Leeds today, well I suppose it makes a change from Blackpool, but as per usual it’s not an afternoon round the shops or sat outside of a pub. Instead it’s the 07:06 from Wigan North Western so that I can sit in a hotel conference room for nigh on 5 hours, […]
I’ve started three times on this subject already and stopped. I don’t want it to be a rant against players who did, for the most part, fantastically last season. Equally I don’t want it to be a potentially libelous meandering about the nature and role of football agents in the modern game. The one thing […]
Latics are currently rewriting this one at the moment. You unhappy about the appointment of Maurice Lindsay? Here you go; John Benson is bound to cheer you up. You not sure whether to renew your season ticket yet? We’ll let you decide, no rush like. Whilst they’re not making great steps in the fan relations […]
Latics’s first signings of the summer look to have added to the frustration of fans new and old, as none of them are players and an old ‘friend’ returns. John Benson, Mark Seagraves and Neil Fitzhenry all join the backroom team in some capacity although stories that Benson is to be the youth team feng […]
So silly season is fully underway and the press are doing a good job of painting Paul Jewell as a man in the throws of panic switching from one unsuccessful transfer target to the next. Today’s choice is Emile Heskey, the oft-maligned Birmingham City front man being tipped to be the subject of a £3m […]
Stories coming out of Merseyside this morning are suggesting that Everton are the third club to have a bid accepted for Crystal Palace striker Andy Johnson. The suggestion is that Everton’s bid meets the £8.5 million bid that Latics and Bolton made, but has more similarity to the Bolton deal as the money will not […]
We’re certainly taking a step up in the transfer market this season market. Last year it was a mixture of unknowns, lower division players and pie in the sky attempts. We now seem to be pitching at players that you’ve heard of and that will probably improve the team. The latest example of that is […]
Autumn 1960, Springfield Park (in the pouring rain). Wigan Athletic (mid-table) 0, Nelson (league leaders) 0, not a bad result I suppose but otherwise a fairly mundane occasion. Wrong – not mundane for me anyway. I’d been to a few Latics games during the previous couple of years with my Dad and Grandad but this […]
1st November 2003, a sunny Saturday lunchtime, in the posh seats and a full day and night’s drinking ahead. It was one of those “second stag dos”, you know the sort of thing organised for those cheapskates and not quite friends who didn’t go away with you. A select few at the game, making our […]
What’s your take on Jimmy Bullard? Was he the laugh a minute ball of energy, the beating heart of the team that made easy work of rising from the 3rd flight to the top level? Or was he the limited player who had started to believe the hype (or his agent) and was showing more […]