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 […]
If I’m honest, this selection was picked as a pre-Sunderland trio, but then my laptop blew up and… well it didn’t happen. I’ve got back online (sort of) today and reflecting back all three songs still work, albeit in different ways than they would have done on Friday. So, to save me thinking too hard […]
So, a quick return to something that I started off back on notapatchon, but didn’t quite carry through, hopefully we can turn it into a bit of a regular feature here on This Northern Soul, but it wouldn’t be the first time that I’ve said that and failed. Anyway, so you get the Left Foot, […]
I guess the rest of the season starts here, eight games, eight weeks and a tilt at recovering a year that’s never really got going. It’s going to be a rollercoaster, for sure and it’s not always going to be easy to keep the faith, but you definitely should and you should definitely enjoy yourselves […]
No match previews this week, I just can’t be doing with the clash of complexes that has become the build up to any Latics v Sunderland game. I’ll leave the reasoning behind that superiority/inferiority divide for when I finally get around to sitting that psychology ‘A’-Level and try and get on with what will hopefully […]
It’s been a fair old week. Battered by Chelsea, professional at Hartlepool fingers pointing and backs being whispered behind; no fear though because we’re only going to visit the fourth best team in the country last season. Still, instead of throwing yourself off the nearest “reply to thread” button maybe you should watch some cricket […]