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 […]

Apologies in advance if you’ve turned up expecting the usual dose of balanced, insightful analysis, some thoughts on how Latics might go about beating Blackburn or just a general, upbeat ‘we’ll be right’ kind of missive. There’s not so much of that around here, not this week anyway.

Bolton 4-1 Latics Sunday 9th December 2007 You can try to keep the sunny side up as hard as you like, but when you’re faced with the type of situation Latics are in, after the sort of performance they’ve just mustered at their nearest rivals (at kick off – both on and off the pitch) […]

It didn’t take long did it?  With ink barely dry on the contracts at their respective new clubs, both Steve Bruce and Paul Jewell wasted no time in getting their mates on board and cutting out the old King’s Men from the backroom staff at both Latics and Derby.  Jewell’s team contains one interesting omission […]

How long does it actually take foreign players to learn that a) the British press will take any opportunity to twist whatever you say to their own benefit and b) that it’s not acceptable in this game to openly discuss any doubts or concerns that you may have about your colleagues or manager?  Denny Landzaat […]