I had never been to Southend before. I was looking forward to seeing the town, at the same time keeping my fingers crossed that Latics could perform against the local football team. Walking around the English seaside in the off-season was always going to be anti-climactic, but the amusement arcades were still open even if […]
Time is marching on and the January transfer window is creeping up on us. Gary Caldwell has worked wonders so far in the transfer market, his dealings having kept Latics balance sheet out of the red. Moreover he has put together a squad strong enough to reach a playoff position by early November, despite their […]
“I want to smash the division with 100 points”. They could have been the words of Dave Whelan prior to the opening of the 2002-03 season. But they weren’t. The comment, or something close to it, was made by his grandson thirteen years later. Wigan Athletic did smash the third tier – then known as […]
‘You were a bit harsh’, that’s the feedback I got on my article about Gary Caldwell’s tenure to date, in the current issue of the Mudhutter (available in all good stockists and internets near you), ‘harsh’ indeed!!! Ok, it wasn’t especially complementary, but I like to think of myself as reasonable, and measured, and being […]
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 […]