So, where did it all go wrong?  Two teams spend a season battling for European qualification; one of them makes it and then, POP!  All that hard work goes to waste and you spend your next season scraping around the bottom half of the table.  Should either (or both of) Latics or West Ham go […]

Liverpool 2-0 Latics Saturday 21st April 2007 In realistic terms, this was a game that Latics couldn’t really expect anything from.  If you had any doubt about it then there was a cavalcade of people waiting to remind you.  At the front of the queue was the manager, as always, ready to tell us how […]

With their inability to hold onto a lead, Latics are developing a bit of a reputation as one of the bikes of this division.  There appears to be little chance of them keeping their legs together so the trick is going to be making sure that they give as much as they receive and of […]

Latics 3-3 Spurs Sunday 15th April 2007 If you’re still wondering what’s gone wrong with Latics’ season then the 90 minutes against Spurs summed it up nicely.  A game where Paul Jewell’s men showed that they can match most teams in this division going forward whilst at the same time failing to capitalise on their […]

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 […]