In early April the doom and gloom that was prevailing at Wigan Athletic was suddenly lifted. For so many months Wigan Athletic seemingly had no direction and leadership. But within a short amount of time Latics had a new chairman and a new manager, both young and hungry for success. Even if relegation were to […]
“Even with five changes from Saturday, the team played the same way – they had the same control of possession, they attacked with a real threat. It’s good to know you’ve got that back up sitting waiting to come on when necessary.” Gary Caldwell quoted on Wigan Today regarding the 3-2 victory at Crewe on […]
Wigan Athletic signed 23 year old winger Yanic Wildschut from Middlesbrough on a three month loan. Wildschut had made 11 appearances for Boro, including two this season. He has represented the Netherlands 10 times at under-21 level. Gary Caldwell told the official Latics website that: “He’s something we definitely haven’t got at the moment. We’ve […]
Synergy is the creation of a whole that is greater than the simple sum of its parts. It is something that can help football teams achieve way beyond what people would expect. In the 1980-81 season Aston Villa broke Liverpool’s stranglehold on English football by winning the First Division. Villa had finished seventh in the […]
“There’s signs it’s coming together, then it’s maybe one step forward and two steps back.” Gary Caldwell was right about that. In reality Latics were lucky to scrape a point out of a game that Doncaster dominated, even if they were denied what Caldwell called a “stonewall” penalty in the final minute of the match. […]
Two defeats in the first two games have tested the resolve of the long-suffering Wigan Athletic following. Defeat is something that supporters had to learn to live with last year, when team lost 25 of the 46 league matches they played. Just a week ago there was an almost tangible wave of optimism as fans […]
He’s a big, strong boy who is also quick. He is different to what we’ve got and he’ll certainly cause defences some problems.” The words of Mickey Adams, who certainly had some belief in Craig Davies as a footballer. He had signed the big man for Brighton in February 2009. Some 11 months later, after […]
A bad start to the season is not uncommon for Wigan Athletic. The beginning of the 2011-12 season was no exception. A 3-1 home loss to Wolves in early November was their eighth consecutive defeat and Roberto Martinez clearly had to look at changing something. The changes he made took some time to take effect, […]
My aim as I set off on the Scottish leg of Latics’ preseason tour was to produce two mach reports, one per game very much in the mould of my normal match reports. However as the games unfolded with multiple changes, loanees and trialists, it became apparent that a road trip blog would probably reflect […]
What an enjoyable night it was at Firhill. The pleasant and friendly atmosphere at the stadium was lifted even further by a bright performance from a young Latics team. They played not only with organisation and enterprise, but with no mean level of skill. The last time I went to watch a football match in […]