Yesterday afternoon results elsewhere conspired to ensure that Roberto Martinez’s under achievers were in the lowest possible league position available.

Bear with me on this but ….. if and I know it is a big if ….. by some means and it is not impossible, improbable yes but not utterly & totally beyond achievable if our club Wigan Athletic actually qualified for the Champions League.

Its half term at the Wigan Athletic Premier Academy and so its time to review the progress so far. Headmaster Roberto Martinez has drastically revamped the curriculum with several new boys coming into the school and this coincided with several new lessons. The term started off well with the pupils performing well in lessons both […]

Some of you may know Dave Hodgson, some of you may not, some of you may have got to know him over the past 12-18 months or so. If you’ve got to know him through the internet, then you’re probably a user of the social networking site, Twitter. Some of you may use it, some […]

Okay December was always going to be a killer month, in the end we came out of it with 6 points with unlikely points against Chelsea & Liverpool.  As TNS’ Bernard said on November’s Brewery Trip, “why can’t we get points in December?” & well Bernard we did, 6 in all. So to January, another […]

24th August 2012 The BBC this evening was responding to many viewers complaining about the after match report on their UEFA Super Cup MOTD special. The match was between Barcelona who in May beat Real Madrid to win their 5th Champions League & Manchester United who in May also beat Valencia to win the Europa […]

1….Number of games won at home, a two nil win over QPR in August. 1 is also the number of strikers who have scored this season; Franco Di Santo. 2….Number of away games won this season,West Brom and Sunderland away. Also 2 is the number of red cards this season, Gohuri and Sammon 3…. The number […]

                    Probably, possibly some of you Latics lads & lasses would have received a book or two from Santa, Our Lass sorted a weighty tomb “The Images of Football” for me (Kindles don’t count) so have a peruse of these covers of WAFC literature. I don’t […]

DAVIDS, Neil DOB: 22nd September 1955 Other clubs: Leeds United, Norwich City, Northampton Town, Stockport County, Swansea City, Bromsgrove Rovers Neil, a former England Youth International, was signed by Ian McNeill from Swansea City prior to Latics’ first season as a Football League club and he proved a huge hit with fans for his ‘no […]

Tis the season to be jolly and clearly the FA were having a laugh when they served up Wigan Athletic’s Christmas fixture list. Nevertheless, we sometimes need to take a step back and realise what it means for a club like ours to be facing three of the biggest clubs in the world. So let’s […]