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 […]

  He wrote his name into history with a brilliant last-minute header that won the FA Cup. If you were in a room full of football fans from all over the world and asked them to name a Wigan Athletic player, you can guess whose name would be most likely to come up.  That would […]

What a difference a couple of months makes. Whereas one or two social commentators have opined that we seem no better off under Rosler than we were Coyle, the facts tell a very different story.

In mid-December a Wigan Athletic team in transition traveled to Hillsborough to play Sheffield Wednesday. Uwe Rosler had just won his opening Championship match, with a tight 3-2 win over Bolton, following an unfortunate dismissal from the Europa League at Maribor. I noted in my match preview of the time that  “..not only will it […]

  Mark the kitchen calendar, put into the diary, either hardback or onto your phone Friday March 28th   The venue … Brocstedes Park   The event . . . Ashton Athletic vs Wigan Athletic Past Players XI   More news about this grand event will follow as soon as it arrives at the TNS […]

Another defeat to a mediocre team, say the cynics. They say that Latics don’t really want promotion this year – they are not ready. Give it another year and Rosler will have his own players playing in the style he seeks. Better to build up a nucleus of players who can serve us for years […]

  “He should have scored.”   “He should have done better.” How many times have we heard comments like that coming from our television football match commentaries? Typically it is the ‘expert’ who makes the comment, an ex-player who through his prior experience is assumed to have a grasp of the tactical and analytical side of […]

If Sky Sports decided to re-write Aesop’s Fables, I suspect one of the moral lessons would involve a football team that travels away from home, scores an early goal and then spends 85 minutes with the bus well and truly parked only to come unstuck right at the end. So you’ll have to forgive me […]

As part of our continuing effort to keep Latics supporters informed about new recruits, we have invited a New York Red Bulls supporter to guest write an article about new centre-half Markus Holgersson.