What a breath of fresh air Owen Coyle has brought to Wigan. Like him or loathe him he cannot be criticized for sitting on his backside and waiting for things to happen. Within the place of week he has signed two new players who look like a really good fit for the club. At […]
A good friend of mine, Chris Marsh, sent me a message a few weeks ago telling me that there was a lecture on at the National Football Museum with the aforementioned title. Luckily enough the date of the lecture fell on the same […]
It is time for change at Wigan Athletic with a new manager having come in, with a huge quantity of new players to recruit. It is exactly the situation Latics supporters would have wanted to avoid. There are too many change parameters to cope with at the moment. What is going to happen to […]
Why has there been such an angry backlash from Wigan Athletic supporters on Owen Coyle’s appointment? Well, it seemed to take an eternity for Roberto Martinez to finally go and the recruitment process to begin. Things seemed to be perking up when we heard about a quality field of applicants for the position. Our hopes were […]
“I have tried to stay away from managers who are in work at the moment because there is a fee involved with those.” So said Dave Whelan, according to a report from a national newspaper on Wednesday. It seemed a strange thing to say, but maybe the comment was taken out of context. True that […]
The latest bookmakers’odds for the vacant Wigan Athletic manager position put Karl Robinson and Gus Poyet neck to neck. One never knows how much inside information the bookmakers can get their hands on, but you can bet your bottom dollar they have something to go on. When I first […]
It’s amazing how the fickle lose faith. The exhileration of that epic cup victory has worn off and the grumblers have already started to stick their knives in the back of Roberto Martinez. What a transformation in a couple of weeks. Martinez always had his critics. But then again his self belief and resilience made […]
In 1964 non-league Wigan Athletic did so well to reach the big round of the FA Youth Cup and were drawn away at Everton. It was a wonderful achievement for Latics’ youth team to get to that stage and it captured my interest. My friend, Melvyn, knew Vic Gaskell, Latics youth team goalkeeper, and badgered […]
If a week is a long time in politics, this month has been an eternity in Wigan Athletic’s corner of football history. From that magical day at Wembley to the exhaustion and despair of relegation three days later, to the joy of the victory parade at which 30,000 Wiganers sang for Roberto Martinez to stay. Ten or […]
The classic double act was that of Brian Clough and Peter Taylor working in tandem. Together they won the First Division and two European Cups with an unfashionable club. What a duo! As expected Roberto Martinez’s move to Everton grows closer and closer, despite the denials of the Liverpool club. Rene Meulensteen and Karl […]