12th Man – The shootout season
Keith Hill eh? When you hear people trot out the line that there’s no characters in the game anymore, they’ve obviously never taken a look at Keith Hill. The man is completely barmy.
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Threes Up
To score three goals away from home would usually be seen as a good day at the office, even more so when you consider Latics were facing a team who were languishing at the bottom of League One. When you see that we also conceded three goals and only got the equaliser in the last […]
Fine Young Gary-balls
Ten games to go, and whereas it shouldn’t be about him, it is perhaps a career defining couple of months for Gary Caldwell above all others. His career at this stage will reflect whatever Wigan Athletic achieve this year. If we go up, then it will be the launchpad to bigger things and he will […]
Firing Bullets – The Wheels on The Bus
Who doesn’t love a three-all draw? Especially one with a last minute equaliser, eh? Me neither, but whilst we’d probably all prefer ten, exceedingly dull but never in doubt, 1-0 wins to see us to the end of the season that would give us nothing to talk about. That would be a shame given that […]
Jukebox Juror – “There’s been an awakening”
The following article first appeared in the January 2016 issue of the Mudhuts Football Express. There was a time where I wasn’t “into” music. That’s not to say I didn’t like music, but with a record collection that mainly consisted of the second two Adam and the Ants LPs, Wham! Fantastic! and a couple […]
The Burnden Park Disaster
Seventy years ago today, n the 9th of March, 1946, 33 people died in an overcrowded Burnden Park. Here, Tony Topping looks at the tragedy and its effects on football On the morning of Saturday the 9th of March 1946, Bill Hughes left his home at 28, Byrom St, Poolstock to attend a football match. […]
Firing Bullets – Pish Posh
About as regular as a Northern Rail service from Layton station, I thought it was about time I got off my proverbial and started spouting off at you all on the internet again. I know you’ve all missed me, maybe. Ok, maybe not, but with such an exciting ninety minutes on Saturday, there’s plenty to […]
Romanzo Criminale
British TV was once the envy of the world. Now it is a mix of reality shows, ageing celebrity comebacks and repeats from yesteryear. That doesn’t leave you, the viewer, with a lot to get excited about does it? In recent years, however, people have turned to subtitled European faire for their fix of fresh, […]
The team no-one likes doesn’t like us
Poor Millwall, you’d almost feel sorry for them if they weren’t Millwall. Despite their habitual strains of “no-one likes us”, they’re none too keen on ourselves either. It’s not that they don’t ever beat us, they do. It’s more that we always beat them when it matters: FA Cup semi final, Autowindscreens final, Play off […]
David Sharpe’s first annniversary as Latics chairman
Being able to communicate on the social media is not a prerequisite for being a chairman of a Football League club. If it were one would wonder how many of them would have a clue about where to start. They could do worse than take some lessons from David Sharpe. Since taking over a Wigan […]