Bolton 4-1 Latics Sunday 9th December 2007 You can try to keep the sunny side up as hard as you like, but when you’re faced with the type of situation Latics are in, after the sort of performance they’ve just mustered at their nearest rivals (at kick off – both on and off the pitch) […]

Much of the talk on the terraces and message boards this season has centred around how many fans we get, and how we go about getting more.  Somebody once told Kevin Costner “If you build it; they will come”.  The JJB stadium is Mr Whelan’s (and our) field of dreams.  At the moment they are […]

It’s pretty much universally agreed that our first choice 15 (I’m including Per Frandsen in that) is one of, if not the, best in the division. Behind that there is a group of players who, depending on who you are talking to and what day it is, are either not good enough, or not experienced […]

Despite the discontent that never seems too far away from the minds of some Latics fans, and you’re lying if you say you can’t tell that some people are just waiting for the first slip up to pounce on Jewell or the players, now is a good time to be a blue. I’m still not […]

No 67 Shoddy Kit Syndrome  Precise details escape me but during one game during his time at the club, Peter Houghton went into a challenge that saw him land arse first in a puddle, somewhere, I think, in the Shevy end/popular side corner of Springfield Park.  An unremarkable incident in itself but one that left […]

Latics 1-0 Newcastle Saturday 15th October 2005 I’m not sure whether it’s my ears; the extra crowd noise; the sense of occasion or the sheer softness of the Woo woo.  “Let’s hang on” the anthem of two seasons back seems to have all but disappeared and yet it’s more appropriate this season than any of […]

Come Saturday the town will be ‘flooded’ with people who are, to English football, what the Tartan Army are to the international scene.  The Toon Army probably attract more clichés per capita than any other group anywhere, apart from maybe their team.  Expect plenty of tales of shirt sleeved/bare chested, boisterous but friendly blokes that […]

A hard one this week.  Villa are one of those clubs that I really don’t care about.  That sounds nasty, but it’s not, they just don’t interest me that much.  Despite them being in the top flight for as long as I can remember, they weren’t one of the sides that excited me about being […]

I’m not sure what to make of this game.  Our form is giving me a level of confidence that I don’t trust and whilst Villa are a team that probably think they should be challenging for things, they’ve been well off the mark in recent years and don’t look like changing that this season.  There’s […]

We’ve not said much on Mr Camara’s hissy fit on Saturday.  Really it was something and nothing, but with the promises made by Wolves and Southampton fans, you can understand why it would make people a little twitchy. I don’t think that the issue is that he was pissed off at being substituted.  I would […]