Wigan Athletic have nine games left in which to secure a seventh successive top flight season. Four of these games are at home, and put in the simplest terms possible all of them have got to result in victory, starting with Saturdays crucial ‘six pointer’ with relegation rivals Birmingham City. Latics sit rock bottom of […]
Come on put that league table away, you’ve been looking at it for long enough. It’s nearly twenty years since Wigan Athletic last got relegated and we’ve still only been relegated once since we became a Football League team. I’m sure a few others reading were there but let me tell you how it was. […]
Well it only took nearly twenty years but Mudhutter is now proud to present the digitally re-mastered Bryan Griffiths/Rude Kid classic t-shirt first launched in 1991.
The Mudhutter sold out again at the last home game but we have however kept some back to deal with online sales, many of which have been posted around the world already: New York, Sweden, WN5, you name it.
The ever popular Ray Mathias has swapped jobs with Peter Ward & has become the latest manager @ Edgeley Park, their forty fourth since 1894 The former Latics boss took the reigns after being a technical advisor to Ward, his first game in that role was a surprise 2-1 win over near neighbours Bury. […]
Is 42 the new 40? & will it be the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything? Listening to 5Live tonight prior to the Blackpool Chelsea game. There is a new belief that with the Premier League being so open @ the Top & the bottom of the league, 40 points […]
Almost a century after their advance into ‘Devil’s Wood’ began, The Football League has erected a permanent memorial to the men of the 17th and 23rd Middlesex Regiments – the Footballers’ Battalions.
From the archives by ‘Orrible Ives Ere listen!! I’ve been meaning to put this bit together for quite a while now but never got round to it. So when I heard Terry Thomas’ tale about his walk over The Gant at the Mudhuts Nostalgia night I thought I’d have a go. And before any of […]
This photograph is the perfect keepsake of a unique game played at Springfield Park. The crowd, as you can see was rammed, and so it should have been because the game in question provided Wigan Athletic’s largest ever crowd to witness a non competitive match whilst they were based at their old home. Just for […]
SPRINGFIELD PARK Biggest victories in every competition, Cheshire League 12-1 v Congleton Town – 1937/38 Cheshire League Cup 7-0 v Frickley Colliery – 1964/65 Lancashire Combination 9-0 v Blackpool ‘B’ – 1952/53 9-0 v Prescot Cables – 1953/54 Lancs Combination Cup 12-0 v Stubshaw Cross – 1954/55 Lancashire Junior Cup 10-1 v Earlstown – 1953/54 […]