In Sky’s football ‘drama’ Dream Team, a player has just gone off on one because the press managed to convince him he was eligible to play for Australia when he quite blatantly wasn’t (if you don’t know the detail then you probably don’t want to). It’s the sort of thing that you look at and […]
I sat down thinking I was going to write a cautionary tale about the dangers of playing weakened teams and then I realised that the example I was basing this on was more than a little flawed. Manchester City, despite making eight changes for our league game on Saturday still managed to lose their FA […]
Man City 0-1 Latics Saturday 18th March 2003 The last time these two sides met it was Latics who had other things on their minds. Paul Jewell naming a much changed line up for the FA cup tie to protect the pursuit of the points required to ensure safety. This time around it was City, […]
Latics fans have always had mixed opinions of our current chairman. In one corner there’s the fans who look at what he’s put into the club and feel he can do no wrong, in the other there’s those who, for whatever reason, wait for him to slip up so that they can lay into him. […]
Latics 1-2 Man Utd Monday 6th March 2006 If luck is one of those things that balances itself over the season then Latics have either had or are due a massive slice of it. The headline over this result is that nobody deserved what they got or indeed how they got it. After two lukewarm […]
It’s hard to work out what exactly will give us a good result tonight. Obviously a win, or even a draw, would fall into that category, but after 2 consecutive 4-0 drubbings those two outcomes may be setting our sights too high. As with all these games, against the top few sides, it’s more a […]
Saturday 26th Feb 2006 – 22:25 “I think I’ve hit the wall again. Earlier in the season I really struggled to come around to how well the season was going, but after a bit of acclimatisation and a couple of defeats things started to look a bit more reasonable. Even when the momentum was at […]
Josip Skoko and Emerson Thome left the club today, and it is rumoured that Damian Francis could have been close behind them. Meanwhile defeat for Senegal means that Henri Camera could be back in the country by Friday. Skoko has popped off to Stoke in a move surely designed to boost his chances of making […]
Man United 4-0 Latics Sunday 26th February 2006 To be honest it’s probably too early to work out how best to feel about this game. Expectations were never that high but after a performance that could best be described as disappointing, you would be excused for wondering if that bitter aftertaste had nothing to do […]
A busy week at the JJB? It may well have been, but as we have come accustomed there’s been little in the way of news coming out of the club. There’s no doubting that the real story of the week is the extra days off Henri Camara managed to pick up by not turning up […]