I’m bored of talking about the Andy Johnson saga (ok then, I’m really a bit pissed off we missed out) and today’s rumours aren’t exactly the type to get the blood flowing. So it’s time to cast the net a little bit wider and delve into the murky Welsh underworld (Swansea?) for news on a […]

You take a bit of time off and all hell breaks loose.  It’s over a month since we last spoke and a mixed bag of results have finally seen Latics creep past the 50 point marker but at the same time fall away from the race for a European place.  As we approach the final […]

He was the missing link in the promotion plans, the scorer of the club’s debut goal in the top flight and the man who dragged the team to the League Cup final. But before that he was the Judas who did a (I assume metaphorical) u-turn on the M6 when Harry have him a ring, […]

Let’s get the obvious things out of the way first. Yes, everyone expected this to be a relegation battle; yes, both teams have done really well this season and yes, it’s refreshing to see freshly promoted teams ‘challenging’ for Europe. Tomorrow’s game was always likely to be a key game for both teams and the […]

The Football League managed to sneak in some exceptions to the transfer rules that mean loan moves are ok. So with no chance of anyone coming the other way, it’s time to say goodbye to three of the players on the fringes of the first team. Admittedly the chances of either Luke Joyce or Kevin […]

In Sky’s football ‘drama’ Dream Team, a player has just gone off on one because the press managed to convince him he was eligible to play for Australia when he quite blatantly wasn’t (if you don’t know the detail then you probably don’t want to). It’s the sort of thing that you look at and […]

I sat down thinking I was going to write a cautionary tale about the dangers of playing weakened teams and then I realised that the example I was basing this on was more than a little flawed. Manchester City, despite making eight changes for our league game on Saturday still managed to lose their FA […]

Man City 0-1 Latics Saturday 18th March 2003 The last time these two sides met it was Latics who had other things on their minds. Paul Jewell naming a much changed line up for the FA cup tie to protect the pursuit of the points required to ensure safety. This time around it was City, […]

Latics fans have always had mixed opinions of our current chairman. In one corner there’s the fans who look at what he’s put into the club and feel he can do no wrong, in the other there’s those who, for whatever reason, wait for him to slip up so that they can lay into him. […]

Latics 1-2 Man Utd Monday 6th March 2006 If luck is one of those things that balances itself over the season then Latics have either had or are due a massive slice of it. The headline over this result is that nobody deserved what they got or indeed how they got it. After two lukewarm […]