In the return of our version of the ubiquitous ‘list of stuff’ feature, Things That Make You Go mmm… looks at the fixture that welcomed a good proportion of our current fanbase into the fold.  Chelsea come into town on Saturday and whilst the game might not carry the same romance that it did last […]

I finished the Arsenal report with a glib line about saving performances like that one for games like Sheffield United.  As it was it was almost poetic in its tragedy as in the very next game Latics turn out their single most abject performance since joining this merry band of robbers thieves and vagabonds that […]

I had to check twice when I saw the crowd for the Arsenal game, even after satisfying myself that it did start with 15 I had to check the video before I believed it.  All I can say in my defence was the action was fairly engrossing and pretty much every seat around me was […]

Being such a clever bloke the irony will not have been lost on Arsene Wenger.  After a few days where if and his players had all but compared us to one of John Beck’s masterpieces, the long ball over the top proved the only way that Arsenal could break down a side that for long […]

If anyone knows the formula for closing games down when you go in front, away from home, could they please forward answers on a postcard to Paul Jewell, c/o Wigan Athletic Football Club, Christopher Park, Wigan?  First prize is the golden chalice of a victory against one of last season’s top five.

The last nil all draw in the league came in the promotion season at home to Burnley, it was the sort of game that the phrase bore draw was made for.  This one may not have been a thriller but it was far from boring.  Jewell had it down as the best we’ve played this […]

“You’re in rubbish form, not won away all season, only scored one goal, a penalty at that.  It’s a certainty that you’ll win 4-0.”  I’m not a betting man, but based on that text message, sent at 11am on the day of this game, perhaps I should be.  Then again it hardly takes a genius […]

For Paul Jewell it was a freak result -one of those things that happens in football, if he spent time with any of the 12,000 (ish) home fans on Monday evening he’d have heard plenty of other descriptions, none of them delivered with the shrug of the shoulders that the manager’s comment implies.  Once the […]

The Premiership really is a funny old league.  A few sides apart, no one seems to have the recipe for continued ‘success’.  Whether success means, challenging for Europe, mid-table mediocrity or avoiding relegation it’s hard enough to keep it going over the course of 38 games, let alone for the season after as well.

With Bolton on the rebound from a thrashing from United and Latics still fighting to establish their season this was never going to be a classic.  As it turned out, it wasn’t even a game for the die-hard.  Whether the few who made the trip paid the £36 out of habit or nostalgia is anyone’s […]