They reckon that good things come to those who wait, well so do half-cocked internet interviews with away fans. Derby are in town tomorrow and that give us the chance to grab long term County sufferer supporter Ollie Wright and ask him the usual stuff, you know about football, rampant ex-managers, money and pies.
Anyone for an Austrian barmpot? Go on then! They say there’s no characters in football any more, well the mad Austrian is the exception to that particular rule.
Let’s be perfectly honest here, this man should be number one in many people’s eyes. Indeed if we’d done this poll 40 years ago he clearly would have been. The internet hadn’t been invented then though and TV cameras at a game was a rarity, let alone filming a clip of a goal on your […]
Let’s get this show moving again then with another entry into the Wigan Athletic hall of fame. This time it’s another custodian up on the podium and one of long-standing at that. Anyway, by now some folk might be getting sick of my prose dare I say so it’s time to hand over to one […]
I think it might be time to don my trusty tin hat again. Just to remind you dear reader, this poll was produce using the votes of hundreds of Latics fans, so please stop shouting at us via social media “WHO THE F***ING HELL VOTED FOR THAT USELESS T***!!” You did the voting not us! […]
Sometimes you don’t have to hang around a long time to earn yourself legendary status. Some footballers just produce one season or even half season of absolute genius that defines their career or at least their stay at one club during a definitive season. Clearly, the part Eamon O’Keefe played in Wigan Athletic’s first […]
Time for another entry into our hall of fame, the last one for today and we stretch back to a player who served Wigan Athletic in both the Northern Premier League and our early league campaigns. Fondly remembered by older fans, scorer of Wigan Athletic’s first ever league goal and one of the early pioneers […]
England was a troubled and turbulent place in 1942; the 2nd World War overshadowed everything, well nearly everything. Life went on as best it could around the terraced streets of Wigan. I dare say the children of the day would have been quite pleased that soap rationing meant that Mam could only use one bar […]
So we’ve had a little dalliance with the present and recent past there in the high forties entries and now as we enter the part of the contest where the Top 40 Wigan Athletic players start to be revealed, we cast our eyes back a little bit further to a player who was a firm […]
So Brighton are at the DW today and after a few weeks off and with ne’er a Skint joke it seems a good excuse to do a Perfect Hat-Trick on a Norman Cook tip. Although when I tried it all sounded a bit, you know, like a Zoe Ball link on “Strictly Come Dancing: […]