For anyone of a certain age, the question “yeah, but which real team do you support?” will have a certain resonance.  Even on those rare occasions that you found someone whose first instinct was to laugh at Latics fans and then rub their faces in trips to Wembley, it used to be difficult to get […]

It would be unfair to single out an individual as the root cause of our recent form, it would also be untrue, but it’s inescapable that the major difference between this season and last is the number of goals we have conceded and we perform worse in that respect when certain players are in the […]

So Paul Jewell’s showdown with the authorities ended without so much as a whimper, let alone a bang.  The manager gets his day in court and a slap on the wrist, the referee an apology and we all get to go through it all again in a week’s time.  Only time will tell whether or […]

Latics 0-0 Fulham Saturday 17th March 2007 A while back, a nil apiece would have been a thing to behold, they have been something of a rarity since Paul Jewell took over the reins at Latics, however there was little in the way of novelty in Saturday’s game.  Weather wise, it was one of those […]

Following the City game, Latics were heading in the right direction and fans were rightly confident that we’d avoid a sticky end of season. Even if the result against Fulham did suggest that the last few games may be more damp squib that big bang. If you left the JJB after that frustrating and, above […]

As a top flight goalkeeper it’s been a case of always the bridesmaid, never the bride for John Filan. Not that the Aussie stopper has the frame for flouncy blancmange dresses in the first place. It’s probably the case that, on his day, he’s good enough to be most team’s first choice between the sticks […]

Manchester City 0-1 Latics Saturday 3rd March 2007 Does that officially make us City’s bogey team? Four games and four victories in the top flight certainly go some way to exorcise the pain of play off defeat back in 1999. Then again we should perhaps be a little more realistic. It was a different century, […]

Latics 1-0 Newcastle Sunday 25th February 2007 Referees, eh?  Don’t they have a hard job?  The way things are going, it looks doubly hard to deal with a game featuring Latics.  If our players aren’t falling over in the box then they’re using karate instead of tackling and if it’s not that then they’re just […]

Watford 1-1 Latics Wednesday 21st February 2007 Whilst the lack of history with Rob Styles and events in Barcelona may have ensured that his sending off of Fitz Hall hasn’t brought the same controversy as the lovely Mr Dowd’s performance at Arsenal it was one that could have mattered a hell of a lot more. […]

If it had been any other referee then you might be prepared to write the decision off as one of those that never go the way of small clubs away from home, but it wasn’t any other referee, it was Phil Dowd (Staffs).  This is the same man that could have cost us a place […]