Uwe Rosler picks his team out of a hat doesn’t he? This slightly disparaging remark seems to have been a staple of his early time here. However, if as ludicrous as it may seem the manager really does spend all week on the training field, assessing players’ form, running tactical routines and then at noon […]

Wigan Athletic travel to Portman Road tomorrow to play their third game in six days. They will face an Ipswich Town side currently sitting in 9th place, with ambitions of reaching the play-offs. On Wednesday Latics scraped out a win against a physical Sheffield Wednesday outfit, courtesy of an 88th minute penalty. However, that victory means […]

The dream continued to come true on Sunday as Latics grafted out a win that took them into the FA Cup semi-finals. Apart from a few glimpses in the first half we did not see the kind of flowing football that won them the FA Cup in May. But we did witness once again the […]

  I don’t know if I will ever tire of watching the highlights of that FA Cup Final. I continue to be in love with the flowing football played by Roberto Martinez’s team and Ben Watson’s goal still brings tears to my eyes. It really was a dream come true. Highlights can so often paint […]

The present FA Cup holders Wigan Athletic now also have the  Sky Bet Championship Manager of the Month for February Uwe Rosler. A much deserved accolade as Dave Bassett  who chairs the Sky Bet Manager of the Month judging panel  said . . . . . “Uwe has moved his side firmly into play-off contention as […]

Is it a false dawn? Or are the dark days well and truly behind us now? Has Uwe Rosler really cleared the rubble left behind by his predecessor? Will the German become a long-standing Premier League manager with Wigan Athletic? A mood of optimism is sweeping through the Wigan Athletic fold as Rosler has become […]

“I always compare myself to the best and the best was Alex Ferguson” – Uwe Rosler is nothing if not confident. I have been impressed with what the East German has had to say since the day he took over at the DW but as we learned with Owen Coyle talk can be cheap. The […]

We beat Man City, we beat Man City with a Watson goal! In the drunken haze of the away end in Bruges, I recall a handful of lads stubbornly singing this on their own urging others to join in. Of course our little gang did out of pure amusement, indeed we were still singing it […]

I’m having a bit of a barren spell at the moment so it seems a good time to dredge up this blast from the notapatchon past. This article first appeared on the site in January 2011 when, ironically, I used it to cover up the fact I was having a barren spell on the writing […]

Can they do it again? Win the FA Cup? Little has been mentioned about it in the media but Wigan Athletic are in the last 16. It is only the third time in their history that they have done that. This time last year Latics went to Huddersfield and beat them 4-1. With his team […]