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 […]

Villa 0-0 LaticsSaturday 31st January 2009Let’s face it, Villa are a pretty good side this year. Ok so their top 4 aspirations depend as much on whether Arsenal get their backsides in gear as they do Martin O’Neil’s ability to get the best out of Emile Heskey, but they’re easy favourites to win ‘the rest […]

Latics 1-1 LiverpoolWednesday 28th January 2009Is the day where we’ll finally beat one of the big four any closer after this one? Well, I’m not going to pretend that this was as good as the one at Old Trafford a week ago, but in some ways that makes this a more satisfying performance. The result […]

Latics 1-0 SpursSunday 11th January 2009 I’m not going to pretend that the last, nearly, two months haven’t happened, the catch up articles are on the way, it’s just that, beset with technical issues as I have, it’s sometimes better to focus on those things closest to home and fresher in the mind. My brain […]

Thanks to United’s trip to the Far East, December didn’t look the hardest of months, but before we could get into the potential point-fest there was a return to North London to get out of the way. Unsurprisingly this one was a different kettle of jellied eels than we got a month before. It’s always […]