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 […]
Arsenal 3-0 LaticsTuesday 11th November 2008 Is there only me that reckons there’s something bordering on indecent in how giddy the press got over this game? I don’t remember the League Cup Final getting this much attention three years back, let alone the game against Arsenal, and why? Because i) the French Dario Gradi sent […]
Latics 0-0 StokeSaturday 8th November 2008 I’m not about to jump on the ‘Stoke are ugly but it works’ bandwagon that seems to be doing the circuit at the moment, but you have to some credit to any side that is prepared to work so hard for each other and get their bodies in front […]
Pompey 1-2 LaticsSaturday 1st November 2008As Jonathan Ross has recently found out, you should never underestimate the ability of the media to twist things to suit their own narrow minded agendas. Ross, through his sadly lacking attempts at comedy, stumbled into the Mail’s anti-Beeb (or anti-auntie) crusade and their quest to crush all things Guardian […]
Fulham 2-0 LaticsWednesday 29th October 2008 How do you want to play this? Would you lead with “devastating loss sees relegation rivals leapfrog Latics”? Or maybe you’d prefer, “fourth defeat on bounce has Bruce’s men reeling”? Then again, the best bet might be an all encompassing “repent all ye who enter here, the end of […]
Latics 0 -4 Villa Sunday 26th October 2008 Aren’t football fans great? All it takes is a solid thumping from the alleged ‘next best team’ in the division and “oh, my god, we’re all doomed!” has replaced “we didn’t deserve that result” as the phrase de jour on the Latics wide web. Not that it’s […]
Liverpool 3-2 Latics Saturday 18th October 2008 It’s somebody else’s turn to apologise, this week; I’m just not certain whose it is. According to Rafa Benitez, there’s nothing to apologise for, his team were the better one, they were never in trouble and the sending off didn’t change things, la la la la [fingers in […]
This week’s excuse? Well, this result was obviously too gut wrenching for me to even think about it until I was 100% certain I was on emotionally solid ground again (ok – solid is perhaps too strong a term, but you get my gist). Seriously though, this was one of those games that make it […]
Bang up to date, as always, but my excuse is this that is about the fourth time of asking for this match report. In the main that’s because of my terminal laziness, but on top of that, I’ve found myself hampered by a certain amount of frustration at both a lack of insight from Sky’s […]
It’s going to be difficult, but I’m going to try writing this match preview without slipping in any sort of cynicism about City’s situation. As strange as it might be that a club who, not that long ago, did us out of a chance of promotion to the second flight are now able to spend […]