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Sometimes, the thoughts of Chairman Dave are cringe worthy, at others they’re honest and brutal.  Sometimes he tells you things you’d rather not listen to, others he tells you exactly what you wanted to know.  Whether he’s in mouthpiece or car crash mode he always gives good interview and he always gives interviews.  As a […]

Mike Phelan is the bookmakers’ current favourite for the vacant manager’s job at Wigan Athletic.

  Losing three home matches in a little over a week would put huge pressure on any manager, let alone one whose initial appointment did not go down well with so many of the fans. The media say it is the fans who ended Owen Coyle’s tenure at Wigan. The more rational argument is that […]

So he’s gone.  I’m not celebrating mind, the only good thing about Owen Coyle’s reign at Wigan Athletic was that it was short.  Ignoring any debates about events on the pitch it feels like his appointment saw principles that we had thrown out of the window and lost us six months that set us back […]

MC Owen Coyle has left the building   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0fmAzAOFE8

    I got a letter from the chairman Earlier today I Opened and read it It said I’m a sucker They wanted me to pass the ball or whatever Picture me given’ a damn — I said never Here is a team that never gave a damn About playing ping pong with me Because […]

Somewhere deep within the bowels of my hard drive I possess a 10,000 word article entitled the football club which ate itself. One night, full of ale (probably) maybe five or even ten years ago I decided to document the rise and fall of Wigan Athletic. A lot of the in the future stuff was […]

Now is the winter of our discontent, well let’s hope not. There did seem to be a bit of an over-reaction in some quarters to Saturday’s result, mainly on the internet – where else? I have concerns myself, hopefully of a more measured variety but first I think there is a fairly simple equation to […]

If you’ve had your eyes on the Latics Wide Web since the last issue of the mag then you might have spotted a bit of a kerfuffle over our current manager.  I didn’t help, publishing an article that got lumped in with all the noblot bashing that’s been rumbling on since the Latics job went […]