Latics 1-1 Spurs Saturday 19th April 2008 This time two years ago, I wasn’t watching Latics, aided by a superb Bullard volley, beat Aston Villa as that fantastic first top flight season wound to a close. Despite my best efforts to convince Mrs Perm otherwise, it will be a couple of years yet before the […]
I’ve just sat down to throw together a half cocked preview of tonight’s game at Stamford Bridge and, to my dismay, the first phrase that came to mind was ‘this is another one of those games’. It should hardly come as a surprise to find myself thinking that way, and I wouldn’t be the only […]
Latics 2-0 Birmingham Saturday 5th April 2008 I’ve spent most of the last week trying to piece together a catch up of events over the last two months, but as the conclusion that it was leading to was that, after the Blackburn and Portsmouth games, nothing had changed, this weekend seems the right time to […]
You close your eyes for a, erm… seven weeks or so, and look what happens. The last time I wrote, Latics had just beaten West Ham but things were still more than a little ropey, certainly according to Robert Green anyway. In reality (and in hindsight) the worm had probably already started to turn and […]
Wigan Athletic and officialdom have always had their problems. Jump back to 1932 and Wigan Borough failing to fulfil their fixtures. Nothing to do with Wigan Athletic? Well it effectively stopped us getting into the league for 40 odd years. Draw Leeds United in the quarter finals of the FA Cup? Good for the club […]
As Hearts are finding out, it’s better to let things be. Their appeal regarding the £600k compensation set for the shonky Andy Webster deal has resulted in that figure being quartered, a potentially massive precedent being set and us football fans being subjected to the barely comprehensible ramblings of Sep Blatter. The ruling by the […]
Oooh! Latics player lifts lid on cold shoulder from manager shocker. Well, not so much of a shock, mind, but it’s unusual to see a Latics player saying anything interesting these days so one that calls the pitch embarrassing and sticks the boot in to a previous manager is a refreshing change. Not sure what […]
In some ways it was a fairly dull transfer deadline day, the usual suspects and ITK journos were rolled out on Sky Sport News to keep the interest going but with the Alves deal being more a rubber stamp than last minute negotiations it was left to the Pompey/City/Defoe/Benjani farce to keep things ticking over […]
‘The pitch was a great leveller’ is basically one of those great football come phrases. It translates roughly into ‘the away team, full of fancy Dans and prima donnas are looking for an excuse to explain their poor performance against a team they should be beating easily’. Surprisingly, despite the difference in league position between […]
Apologies if this comes as a surprise to any of you, but the JJB stadium is built next to the River Douglas. Further shocks may lie in the fact that, with it being in Marsh Green it is probably built on… wait for it … a marsh. For good measure, and just in case it […]