I’m running late and, to be honest, I don’t have very much to take the Micky out of Southampton for, so I’ll keep this short.  This week’s visitor is Chris Rann, owner of the excellently named (and well written) blog George Weah’s Cousin, he also writes for Betfair and ESPN.   Like my good self, he’s […]

I was tempted to start this Sixy Talk off all bolshy and claim that I didn’t do it because there’s no way I’m talking to one of them Stoke types, what with their coming in our end, singing their songs and spoiling the BarclaysPremierLeague with their second division football. I was tempted, but then you […]

I’ve been ill this week, I’m still ill in fact, I’ve spent most of the week in a daze but don’t worry about it.  I’m not after sympathy, I just want you to know how committed I am to the cause of giving you pop pickers the chance to get my view on the weeks […]

  First, empty seats at Arsenal cause debate and consternation, then empty seats at Bournemouth lead to derision, but no matter which way you want to look at it empty seats, and ticket prices have been the talk if the town this week and whenever they come into debate people always point in the direction […]

The thing about regular features is that you have to do them regulalrly, or else they’re just… irregular.  And no one wants irregular features, well maybe not no one, but we don’t really get many Mansons or Gagas down at the DW.  Anyway I digress… it’s time for another perfect hat-trick and as it’s January […]

  OK, I know you’re not going to remember this, but it was (almost) a regular thing back in my Not A Patch On days and Jordi’s three goals the other week got me thinking about it again.  You get the “Left foot, right foot, head” thing already; it’s a perfect hattrick, right?   To be […]

You’ll have to excuse me if my spelling and punctuation isn’t up to scratch at the minute. It’s because I still have my hands over my eyes as I can’t bear to look at our defence. I suppose we should give them a little bit of a pat on the back for keeping the defeats […]

And so to Villa Park, where the Roberto Martinez adventure began, where he nearly ended up plying his trade this summer and where our bargain basket Messi now resides.  It’s a fixture that has been notoriously kind to Latics, not least in that first game for Bobby when the sun shone and we all thought […]

Well, it’s back. The regular feature that you didn’t know you’d missed and it’s a been a bit difficult what with very little going on, well at least very little on the Latics side of the fence. Today’s opponents have been a bit busier so with ne’er a do let’s get straight on with it.

It doesn’t seem like a week since I last did one of these (it’s not), but with literally one person pestering me about what was going to be in this week’s perfect hat-trick I’ve decided to keep to something like a deadline and get the Everton one out ahead of the game. Ahead of Saturday […]