On a rain-drenched pitch, Wigan Athletic’s first half team included no natural strikers, with Cywka acting as a lone up-front man.    It was half an hour before Wigan Athletic created a chance that resulted in a corner, coming from some marvellous work from N’Zogbia who was, in the first half the best man on […]

THAT SUMMER PART OF ME DIED As a Child———-The summer of 1999 was not like any other it was the year we lost Springfield park.———————————————————————————-As a child me and my friend Duncan made a pilgrimage every closed season to both Central park and Springfield Park on our push bikes from Ince we did this for […]

After five years of messing about at this webmaster lark, last season brought me to put up or shut-up time as far as [thas] not a patch on goes.  The intention was always meant to be so much more than the occasional ramblings, with bolted on forum, that I gave out last year and after […]

Or at least it should do, and if Steve Bruce doesn’t get the hint soon then Bobby’s dad might just be knocking on his door making it clear what he can do with his advances and threatening to chop his bid off if he doesn’t keep it to himself.   Yes, I’m talking about Sunderland’s […]

I’ve been a little distracted by other projects recently (of which you’ll be seeing more in the coming weeks) but I’ve had my head dragged out of my backside this week by an issue that’s creating an increasing noise across the Wigan Wide Web, the naming of stands at the JJ… erm DW Stadium.  I’d […]

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Before we get started I should explain a couple of things.  When I refer to ‘this site’ or ‘the site’ or ‘we’ I mean [thas] Not a Patch on Harry Lyon, or any part of it.  When I say content, I mean words, pictures anything that you can see whilst you look at this site.  […]

 The formation and early years   The fifth club to grace Wigan was formed in 1932 after the demise of Wigan Borough. Borough were forced to resign from the Third Division North of the football league on the 26th of October 1931. After the board said funds had ran dry.   A public meeting was […]

Latics 0-0 Fulham Saturday 7th February 2009 What do you expect? It’s Wigan v Fulham, it’s hardly likely that the players will forget where they are and suddenly start off like they’re in a Derby at the San Siro, or somewhere like that. Are they? No, it’s February, it’s snowing and you’ve got two teams […]

If this is what passes for not doing business in the Bruce household then I’d hate to see the credit card bills after Janet has finished in the January sales. Of course being Latics manager doesn’t offer the man of the house quite so many privileges, but given that he started the new year with […]