I told you last week that I wouldn’t be at this one, nor was I able to watch it live on TV. I managed better than the Likely Lads though and avoided any info on the game until I was able to sit down with my Sky+ about 7pm. There was certainly enough about the […]

As transfer windows go, this one has been fairly quiet for the boys and girls that cover Wigan Athletic. The brief flurry of speculation that is the hallmark of football’s New Year aside, Latics have kept out of the gossip columns and there’s a growing feeling that Bruce may be saving his spending money for […]

Chris Hutchings yesterday ended his enforced sabbatical by stepping in to help his old mucker, and caretaker manager, Chris Brass, at Bury.  The manager’s post in currently vacant following the sacking of Chris Casper and speculation is rife that Hutchings is attempting to get his feet under the table at Gigg Land, stealing a march […]

Sometimes you spend the days leading up to a game in eager anticipation, thinking about little else and desperate for kick off.  Other times games creep up on you and with ne’er a thought, you’re sat in your seat and there’s a quarter of the game gone.  The funny thing is it’s not always the […]

With fortunes on the pitch improving, you’d be excused for thinking we’d be let off from our helping of relegation threat fuelled transfer speculation.  Things may have been a little bit slower than in previous Januaries, but the gossip columns are still more than happy to waste their ink on wild speculation as to where […]

Of course, you’d start to worry if I started reporting the news when it happened, but it’s never great when you miss your chance to say goodbye  The beauty of having your own blog is that it’s never really too late for such things  so here goes.

Derby 0-1 Latics Saturday 12th January 2008 With half his team making their debuts, facing a team without an away win all reason and the added bonus of a visit from his old club, Paul Jewell will have been hoping for a much needed sea-change in Derby’s fortunes. Instead he got pretty much more of […]

If it’s been a while since the Fulham game then it feels like an absolute age.  Football and all that goes with it has taken a back seat to the chaos that is Christmas with two young kids leaving us with a fair bit of action, on and off the pitch, to catch up on.  […]

We can’t really talk about Fulham without bringing up everyone’s favourite cockney larrikin.  No matter what you thought of his footballing ability, the loss of his personality left a gaping hole in the Latics squad.  He as much as anyone personified what made Latics successful in those crazy first four months in this division and […]

Latics 5-3 Blackburn Saturday 15th December 2007 Steve Bruce would probably have preferred a 1-0 win, but this game gave the fans exactly what they want from a derby(ish) game. The cockles of Wiganers, frozen by the weather, 13 games without a win and last week’s thumping at the Reebok, will have thawed some following […]