Wow, what a week.  Three of the most pathetic capitulations you could ever wish to see, an argument between the manager and fans and then instead of the usual “if he goes then I do” schtick, Chairman Dave tag teams with the East Stand and body slams Owen Coyle into next season.

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. 

  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: […]

I tell you what, I’m feeling right miserable with this football malarkey at the minute.  Good performances against Watford, Maribor and Blackburn are currently looking like blots on the Coyle landscape after performances against Blackpool and Rubin Kazan that suggest that playing ping-pong and practising ways to “hit the front man early” really are the […]

No, not even we’re that obvious, but hey, let’s hope we’ve a few ‘Wild Rovers’ on our hands come tea time (note – our political correctness department have insisted I point out they’d be wild because they’re  cross at losing, not because we’re encouraging hooliganism or casting aspersions about people from East Lancashire).  No, today’s […]

The first time I remember watching Latics play “European” opposition was in February 1990 when Torpedo Moscow came to town.  I doubt that I’d had any thoughts of us playing competitive European games before that stage but, after a frozen ninety minutes of with both teams turning out turgid football and serving up a nil-nil, […]

We’ve saved a special occasion to get around to our first Sixy Talk of the season.  Thursday’s trip to Bruge isn’t Latics’ first competitive game off these shores, but as no one is likely to give any credence to the Manx cup then we’re happy to go with the flow.  The game against Zulte Waregem […]

Wow, who would have thought we could stick at this long enough to deal with interviewing someone twice?  I was thinking of ducking the challenge and finding a different Reading fan this time around, but then I remembered that the last time I chatted with Dan from The Tilehurst End coincided with the last time […]

Another game, another adopted Wiganer struggling to cling on to their home town and accent.  This week it’s Tim McGrath, now of this Parrish but latter of that place that’s on the way to Leeds where loads of people always get on the train, but no one ever seems to get off.  He’s nothing to […]

Whichever way you want to look at this week, it’s a blue one.  Latics v Chelsea, the blues versus the blues, finished with a defeat that might have felt worse than it was, but was still enough to leave the DW faithful with the blues.  Tomorrow, the blues of Leicester take on the blue & […]