I do like getting stuck into a good blog and it’s fortunate that there are a myriad of great football blogs out there. One of the blogs I’ve picked up recently is the 72, which for those of you with a rudimentary mathematical brain may recognise is geared up to the seventy-two Football League clubs […]

I’ll never forget him, though I’ve long since forgotten his surname, to me he’ll always be known as “Ted the Football Man” I first met Ted in the early 70’s when I started working at Ashton’s the town’s premier tobacconists. He worked in the warehouse and was a supervisor for a team of packers. My […]

  Almost a century after their advance into ‘Devil’s Wood’ began, The Football League has erected a permanent memorial to the men of the 17th and 23rd Middlesex Regiments – the Footballers’ Battalions.

1. Jordi is not an Argie 2. Jordi takes better free kicks 3. Jordi isn’t a greedy bugger 4. Jordi has a fitter bird (probably) 5. Lionel is a stupid name, last seen being used by some dancing bloke on Give Us a Clue

TALKSPORT SPEAK SENSE SHOCKER I had a tip off last night that Collymore was talking sense on Talksport, this to me was kind of like a Halley’s comet sighting, so I tuned in and indeed he was talking sense.

Yesterday could well have been the day. The day Latics fans have been dreaming of for so many years, the day we finally put one over on the ‘mighty’ Manchester United, the day people actually sit up and take notice of Little Wigan as a real threat in the top flight of English football. It […]