Aston Villa’s amazing 6-1 scoreline against Sunderland was certainly unexpected. One single result has lifted the midland club level on points with both Newcastle and Sunderland, only one point behind Norwich who they play on Saturday. Moreover their previously poor record for goal difference has been transformed by the +5 they got last night. […]
‘Remember that our last game is against Aston Villa at home. It could easily go to the last day of the season.’ These were the words of Roberto Martinez in a recent interview. Wigan Athletic are not strangers to the concept of surviving on the last day of the season. They have done it […]
I suspect this advice is going to go above everyone’s head but I’ll say it anyway: KEEP CALM! No need for any big blue poster or catchy soundbite afterwards just a requirement to sit on the unprecedented giddiness witnessed before Wigan Athletic play a game where the stakes are massive and expectations are high. I […]
Anyone know how Mauro Boselli is getting on at Palermo? More to the point does anyone care? It’s still a subject of considerable consternation amongst most Wigan Athletic fans that we paid a reputed £6.5m for an Argentinian who has barely played for the club. It wasn’t exactly Roberto Martinez’s finest ever piece of business […]
The full Premier League debut of a young man who has come through the Wigan Athletic ranks and if the week before was anything to go by looked every bit like it was his time to shine. Sadly, as is often the case with Wigan Athletic the only way we seem to make the […]
We could do with a hum wun, hyem wyn err. Let me start again, I mean we could do with a home win today….it’s been so long I forgot how to say it; that much is evident. But instead of deliberating over our dreadful home record or analysing the reasons why, let’s take this […]
What follows is possibly* a conversation that was overheard coming away from the DW Stadium last Saturday…
1. Buy 94 pies from the Pound Bakery 2. Or 34 Galloways meat and tater if you’re a fussy bugger 3. Drive too fast, get done and use the £47 to pay off your fine. Or get your wife to if you’re a Lib Dem MP 4. Get 282 Wagon Wheels (6 for a £1) […]
Last night I came off a freezing cold football field and checked the scores and then went on to Twitter only to find a load of bells, Aston Villa fans most of them propagating a story that Wigan has taken 25 fans to Bournemouth away on a Tuesday night. It was actually 237 but […]
As is customary here is the totally unofficial half term report and pupil ratings for the Wigan Athletic Premier League Academy.The first half of this term has been particulary difficult for the headmaster Mr Martinez and his teaching staff as illness plus some questionable test marking by the examination baord has seen the school underperform compared to […]