Well, what can you say?  Allegedly the best strike force in the division and 45 goals between our front line strikers. Sounds good doesn’t it?  Then again, we’ve spent all season worried that the Duke would get (more) injured and that Roberts’ mouth would get the better of him and he’d get suspended.  The Duke’s […]

The third part of our season review looks at the most heavily loaded part of our squad.  The midfield is also the part of the team that Jewell has chopped and changed the most the season, often causing confusion amongst fans, and in Mr Teale contains the one player in the squad guaranteed to cause […]

Continuing the players’ end of season reports we now move on to the defence.  We’ve hardly struggled for good defenders in recent times, and our record backs that up.  Let’s have a look at how this year’s batch measured up.

As a football website it’s fairly obligatory for us to knock out some kind of season review.  Being lazy gets it’s probably going to be one that’s spread all across the summer.  There’ll be other bits to follow (probably, maybe, if we get round to it) but we’ll start off with the players that took […]

We would have liked to hold a glittering award ceremony with 5 courses from Marco Pierre White, free booze and a trophy as big as your house, and as much as we know that the players would like to have attended, we didn’t think it fair to make them cancel their little jaunt to Barbados, […]

Latics 3-1 Reading 8th May 2005 One day, hopefully soon, it will happen.  I’ll wake up and realise what exactly occurred on Sunday 8th May 2005 and you’ll have a job getting me down off the ceiling.  At least until Christmas time, when we should have a pretty good idea just how realistic Mr Whelan’s […]

In a move that can only add to the frustration, nervousness and panic that is spreading amongst all Latics fans, Southampton have today recall Brett Ormerod to cover for a potential injury to **lanky streak of** (cough, sorry…) striker Peter Crouch.  Whilst conspiracy theorists will no doubt be searching for Harry nJim’s connections with Billy […]

Preston North End 1-1 Latics Saturday 30th April 2005 You can put the calculators away now.  The position at one o’clock on Sunday is simple.  A victory against Reading takes us to the Premier League regardless of what happens elsewhere.  This point, obtained despite yet another disappointing performance was enough to keep the club’s destiny […]

This weekend gone saw the PFA Player’s Player of the Year awards.  These awards carry the kudos of being voted for by fellow professionals, who would in no way be swayed by lazy journalism.  So it must be nice to have your standing in the game recognised by people who allegedly know something about playing […]

Wigan Athletic 0-0 QPR Saturday 23rd April 2005 With enough plot twists to keep even the most demanding Eastenders fan interested, the battle for promotion is finally coming to the end of its convoluted journey.  It could be over next weekend, but chances are it’ll go down to the last day of the season, again!  […]