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 […]

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 […]