I know that I was supposed to be embarrassed by all those defeats over the last four seasons, the 9-1, all those drubbings against United and Arsenal and the countless cup exits to lower division sides.  I know I was supposed to be but, by-and-large, I wasn’t.  Just as I wasn’t when Paul Jewell was […]

As history making years go 2013 will certainly go down as the biggest of the lot for Wigan Athletic. The first FA Cup Quarter-final appearance in 26 years was closely followed by the clubs first ever FA Cup semi-final and you know the rest. Another landmark moment takes place later this week as Wigan Athletic […]

Whenever you read this, I’m writing it before the Leicester game. So basically I’m in the same frame of mind as I was when I wrote part 1 of this little catch up, which covered what I’ve been doing instead of paying attention to goings-on at Latics (playing Cricket) and my thoughts on the sh… […]

Or “Wot I done on mi summer holidays” I left things somewhere between the FA Cup final and the game at the Emirates that sealed our Premier League fate. Somewhere between the happiest times and, what some would have you believe was, the worst. I get that for some, experiencing their first relegation, it will […]

There’s a chap I know whose name I can’t mention who always tells me the answer on Latics related movements even though he always puts the words “I think” in front of it, presumably to stop me blabbing about it. He told me that Coyle would be our new manager and he told me which […]

Mexico had an amazing record in World Cup qualifying matches until a week ago. Invariably playing their home matches in front of 100,000 fans at the magnificent Aztec Stadium in Mexico City they had lost only one out of 77 such matches. The ‘Catrachos’ of Honduras were to pull off the shock result of the CONCACAF […]

The fans at Norwich loved Grant Holt. They did not want him to leave. Owen Coyle’s signing of the big centre forward in July looked like the bargain buy of the summer. But why had Holt left a Premier League club where he was idolised to join an outfit that had been relegated to the […]

  Callum McManaman  deservedly won the  ‘Man of the Match’ award at the FA Cup Final, after a scintillating display.  He had run the expensively-assembled Manchester City defence ragged and in doing so he won over many of the armchair critics who had condemned him following the “Horror Tackle” episode. When McManaman walked onto the Wembley turf he […]

There’s no place like home is there? Unfortunately we seem to have continued our home form of last year but instead of scrambling 2-2 draws against Tottenham and Everton now we’re doing the same against Middlesbrough and Doncaster. However, I’ve been pleased to see that the home crowds have held up quite well in terms […]

  Famously and deservedly against Manchester City Wigan Athletic won the FA. Cup at Wembley and a few short days later were heartbreakingly relegated from the “greatest league in the world” ©   The Europa League is rearing it’s cosmopolitan head with Thursday 19th September the date for another history making day of our club. […]