Wigan Athletic are to formally ask the FA to rescind the ludicrous red card that Conor Sammon picked up for shielding the ball against Manchester United on Boxing Day. Match referee Phil Dowd, forty yards from the incident, decided that Conor had fouled Michael Carrick as the United star hit the ground as if pole […]
Wigan Athletic midfielder Mohamed Diame is set to play for Senegal in the upcoming Africa Cup of Nations tournament. Diame, who has already represented his country on five occasions will hopefully play his first game for Senegal in Equatorial Guinea, Bata against Zambia on 21st January 2012. The length of his absence from first team […]
Probably, possibly some of you Latics lads & lasses would have received a book or two from Santa, Our Lass sorted a weighty tomb “The Images of Football” for me (Kindles don’t count) so have a peruse of these covers of WAFC literature. I don’t […]
Following the confirmation of Michael O’Neill being appointed the new manager of Northern Ireland, here is a brief resume of his time at Wigan Athletic and beyond… Mike was born in Portadown on 5th July 1969 His other clubs include, Coleraine, Newcastle United, Dundee United, Hibernian, Coventry City, Aberdeen, Reading, St Johnstone, Clydebank, Portland Timbers, […]
Inverness Caledonian Thistle manager Terry Butcher is keen to extend the loan arrangement of Roman Golobart. Butcher is expected to contact Roberto Martinez shortly asking for the central defender’s loan spell to be extended until the end of the season. Golobart, who scored his first career goal on Saturday during a 2-1 victory over Aberdeen […]
As per usual a New Year brings along hope and expectation along with the traditional Honours List, However in this modern era which we all reside this time honoured tradition is not as prestigious as it was once with a lot of celebs getting medals and sword placed about […]
DAVIDS, Neil DOB: 22nd September 1955 Other clubs: Leeds United, Norwich City, Northampton Town, Stockport County, Swansea City, Bromsgrove Rovers Neil, a former England Youth International, was signed by Ian McNeill from Swansea City prior to Latics’ first season as a Football League club and he proved a huge hit with fans for his ‘no […]
And so as we reach the pinnacle of the Wigan sporting civil war as Wigan’s three favourite football teams come head to head in the space of six days. These really are the games I cannot stand above any other and they are the games we, as Wigan Athletic fans dreamt of watching many years […]
This is the article that I wasn’t going to write. I’d picked up my keyboard yesterday to tell the world how much I objected to our ground being used as the backdrop to Liverpool’s show of collective injustice, only to decide that I probably wasn’t good enough to pull off the article that I had […]