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 […]

ALI HABSI BACKS THE BIG FLAG! The BIG flag campaigns final collection is hitting the DW this weekend. Fans are gunning too get the funds raised and get the flag manufacture for the Televised Home Liverpool fixture. The Latics fans have shown a massive backing to the flag campaign, with over 900 supporters voicing their […]

The waiting game   Good things certainly come to those who wait don’t they? And for those travelling faithful up at the Stadium of Light it was one of those manic, jump up, fall over and on your knees raising your hands to the heavens type celebrations. Come on, if it happened every week, it […]

It’s not big, it’s not clever. I’m not telling you this to show off or anything like that, it’s more of a confessional, but I snapped on Saturday. Now people will tell you that I’m a fairly argumentative bloke, I prefer to see myself as debat-umentative, but I tend to keep it amongst friends. Rightly […]

I’ve got off to a bad start this season, I’m offering no reasons or excuses, just laying on the line that I’ve not been as energetic or prolific on the writing front as I’d like to be.  Probably not as much as I should be given my supposed role round here, if a blogger doesn’t […]

Many of you will have read comments attributed to Dave Whelan in recent weeks about his retirement from football and ultimate exit of Wigan Athletic. It has become clear to all but the most insistent in the last few years that Wigan Athletic will always struggle to financially survive in the Premier League over the […]

Aren’t we all feeling refreshed after the break and raring to go then? We have to be really. Every week in the previous four was perceived as make or break but if we don’t manage to get 4 points out of our next two games then staying in the Premier League will be a very […]

Some of you may recall a blog I did a couple of months ago under the above title. We all know what has happened in the last couple of months and it somehow feels even more difficult to introduce such a concept when we’re rooted to the bottom of the table. But you know what, […]

Lack of hope leads to despair until ultimately there is hope and defiance. The sooner we get out of the desperation stage the better for all concerned, whether that is by virtue of a miraculous climb up the table or a general consensus that we are adrift and it is best to start planning for […]