It was easy to dismiss the stories earlier in the season that linked Lee McCulloch with a move to Charlton. Based on the fact that he hadn’t featured in the first eleven for a few games, they never really rang true not least because his absence was due to injury. In any case, if we […]

It could be the lack of information from the club or the headless chicken effect of blind panic, but the accusations have started to fly again. They’re doing it on the cheap! Loads of players would sign if they’d only pay the going rate! Why aren’t they spending our money?

Of the sixteen players that were selected in the squad for Latics’ first Premier League game five of them had been in the dressing room on the 3rd May 2003 for the fixture that saw Jason De Vos lift the Second Division Championship trophy. Another two players that had featured against Barnsley weren’t available for […]

With relegation looming large on the JJB horizon fingers are starting to point in every, and any, direction to find the root of Latics’ current predicament.  On one end of the scale there’s the ‘we’re doomed’ camp, resigned to our fate and on the other, either eternally optimistic or in denial, are those who are […]

Chelsea 4-0 Latics Saturday 13th January 2007 Twenty-seven years today, Wigan Athletic travelled to Stamford Bridge for an FA Cup third round tie. It was halfway through their second season in the league. Massively the underdogs, Latics put in a spirited display, snatching victory through a single Tommy Gore goal. Yesterday the team made another […]

So then Jose, do you still think that you’ve got problems?  Would you rather be going into the game worrying about how your second set of expensive internationals will fit together or with only 17 fit players, 3 of whom are not realistic starters?  Would you rather be trying to get goals from Shevchenko or […]

Paul Jewell’s attempts to bolster the beleaguered Latics front line were boosted this afternoon as West Brom accepted a transfer request from Nathan Ellington. The midlands club may be hoping this move will spark a bidding war for the striker but their open willingness to sell can only be good news for Latics.

In a week where a much misunderstood interview led to suspicions that Kristofer Haestad was after a pay rise before he’d kicked a ball for Latics, you’d think that his more experienced colleagues would be wary of what they said to the press.  Not so Denny Landzaat and readers of today’s Daily Mail will be […]

It would be folly to suggest that either Andreas Granqvist or Kristofer Haestad would be at Latics if the rumoured interest from top four clubs had ever materialised.  Equally the cynics will be quick to tell you that they are only here to put themselves in the shop window.  Either way it is refreshing to […]

Let’s face it, this game was written off by the majority of fans, most of all we didn’t want a draw, but given the choice of a replay at the JJB or losing to yet another injury time goal you’d have taken the draw every time.  No matter how much there was to take away […]