Arsenal 2 -1 Latics Sunday 11th January 2007 It’s at this point that the rule of cliché dictates that you must be told that Latics have never beaten any of the ‘top four’ since gaining promotion to the Premier League. Of course, like all good clichés that’s not actually true. Not only did we knock […]
Latics 1-0 Portsmouth 3rd February 2007 If a week is a long time in politics, it’s an age in football. These seven days may have started with concerns about how a striker from the fourth division could be expected to turn the season around but they finished with discussion about how our four strikers could […]
Reading 3-2 Latics Tuesday 30th January 2007 Another game, another defeat and, most disappointingly, another set of stupid errors that led to goals. Whilst anyone predicting a win ahead of this game was likely to have been laughed out of Goose Green Labour Club, the final whistle had everyone wondering what exactly we’ve done to […]
The deadline has passed for any new signings to feature in the Reading game so despite the anticipation of the last two days of the transfer window it’s time to put all the speculation to one side and concentrate on that rarest of things in the Premier League, an actual bone fide football match this […]
Stories are breaking tonight that Shakhtar Donetsk forward, Julius Aghahowa has been in Wigan since Wednesday ironing out his ‘dream’ move to the Premier League. The Nigerian international has apparently agreed to join Latics with only the need for a work permit holding up the deal. The 25 year old travelled about a bit in […]
After much wailing and gnashing of teeth on message boards across the borough, Latics have finally made their fourth signing of the January transfer window as Chesterfield’s Caleb Folan joins the cause. It would be easy to be cynical about his past record but at least we’ve got a striker in which gives us at […]
Another day, another batch of players linked with moves to Latics. The only strange thing is that they seem a little more realistic this time around. Whilst Jewell may have been looking for players across the globe, it appears that the latest additions to his shopping list are a little closer to home than South […]
…or one football man’s inability to set up a coffee morning. Things have apparently been moving slowly on the transfer front over the last week or so, but there’s still been plenty to keep the massed ranks of keyboard worriers occupied. From Norway, via Chile and ending up in Moscow, and with no kind of […]
How hard can it be for 20 odd grown men to present a united front? Numerous players have been in the press lately telling us that spirit in the Latics camp is high and yet Paul Jewell tells us that the silly errors at the back and lack of impetus up front are due […]
Latics 0-2 Everton Sunday 21st January 2007 As sixteen games turns into fifteen and the search for forty points becomes more and more forlorn, Paul Jewell must be pulling what little hair he’s got left out of his increasingly scarlet head. Only he knows if yesterday’s flush was due to frustration or embarrassment, but with […]