The club’s silence on Jason Roberts has finally been broken, perhaps unsurprisingly, by the chairman, and even less surprisingly in a way that basically says sod him. Desperate to prove that there’s no man (except him perhaps) bigger than the club, Mr. Whelan has pointed out that it’s he and not the player who decides […]

It’s time to welcome our first signing of the summer. One that might stem the flow of people ready to tell us that Latics will never sign anyone, but will just as quickly dredge up the old ‘no ambition’ versus ‘Jewell’s never done us wrong’ arguments. One thing we won’t hear about this signing is […]

Wow, two signings in two days. Forgive me if you think I’m getting over excited but keeping Leighton Baines on for another three years is, especially in these times of ‘mass exodus’, a real boost, just as long as there are no clauses or gentleman’s agreements to cause problems further down the line that is. […]

According to Birmingham chairman David Sullivan that pleasure falls to one and all at Wigan Athletic. In a ‘Sir! Sir! Sir! They’re looking at my dinner funny sir!’ moment worthy of Walter softie Chris Hutchings’ comments about Emile Heskey last week are being described as an illegal approach. I suppose there’s a chance that Heskey […]

The latest blow in what will be recorded in Latics’ history as the “Great battle of gloves in April” has been struck. Not surprisingly it’s come from the player’s (well his agent’s) corner, with that bastion of loyalty Henri Camara being linked with a move to Portsmouth. Not only that he’s had the cheek to […]

A lovely trip to Leeds today, well I suppose it makes a change from Blackpool, but as per usual it’s not an afternoon round the shops or sat outside of a pub. Instead it’s the 07:06 from Wigan North Western so that I can sit in a hotel conference room for nigh on 5 hours, […]

I’ve started three times on this subject already and stopped. I don’t want it to be a rant against players who did, for the most part, fantastically last season. Equally I don’t want it to be a potentially libelous meandering about the nature and role of football agents in the modern game. The one thing […]

Latics are currently rewriting this one at the moment. You unhappy about the appointment of Maurice Lindsay? Here you go; John Benson is bound to cheer you up. You not sure whether to renew your season ticket yet? We’ll let you decide, no rush like. Whilst they’re not making great steps in the fan relations […]

Latics’s first signings of the summer look to have added to the frustration of fans new and old, as none of them are players and an old ‘friend’ returns. John Benson, Mark Seagraves and Neil Fitzhenry all join the backroom team in some capacity although stories that Benson is to be the youth team feng […]

So silly season is fully underway and the press are doing a good job of painting Paul Jewell as a man in the throws of panic switching from one unsuccessful transfer target to the next. Today’s choice is Emile Heskey, the oft-maligned Birmingham City front man being tipped to be the subject of a £3m […]