Wigan Athletic 1964-65.Back row, Wilf Birkett (Trainer), Les Jackson (Chairman), Alan Halsall, Roy Wilkinson, Alf Craig, Ralph Gubbins, Derek Houghton, Derek Crompton, Frank Latham.Front Row: Les Campbell, Carl Davenport, Harry Lyon, Allan Brown (Player Manager), Walter Stanley.Thanks to WiganWorld for the photo. A couple of weeks ago at Blackpool with Latics a goal behind, […]

Never one’s to stay behind the trends, last night saw the first TNS foray into minute-by-minute match reporting.  Well, if I’m honest, it wasn’t a foray into anything, my mate @tallkenny had made the choice to go and watch the consistently depressing Nick Cave over the increasingly depressing Latics and keeping him updated was more […]

  Marc Albrighton could be thrust into the crunch match with Queens Park Rangers at the DW Stadium tonight. The 23 year old has been  signed from Aston Villa on what must be one of the shortest of loan periods –  reported to be just 28 days. However, the winger  has had injury problems and has […]

  He was lauded as the best of Owen Coyle’s new signings. But if you were ask a room of Latics supporters which of the twelve new players brought in by Coyle has been the most disappointing – the name of Grant Holt would be the one which comes up most. What has happened to […]

Anyone else see a pattern emerging? I think it’s important that we have decent home form as those are the games which most Latics fans turn up to see, even though we have been less than convincing at times. Yet away from home, we seem to be somewhat disjointed and are struggling to either play […]

“It’s not great. The manager’s just not given me any chance at all. Of course it’s demoralising. You go down there and a manager (Martinez) buys you and tries to mould you into the player that he wants you to be and then of course he went to Everton. The new manager (Owen Coyle) has […]

Ben Watson’s great run into the penalty box in the 34th minute of the recent Maribor match enabled him to put Latics into the driving seat with a 2-0 lead. Watson’s header was spot-on, but would not have been possible without a wonderful cross from Jean Beausejour on the left. One of the features of Latics’ […]

Sometimes you don’t have to be good, you just have to be lucky. Or in the case of Blackburn’s Grant Hanley, a little bit stupid. I’m not sure how that game would have gone had it remained 11 v 11 but it was a highly fatigued looking Wigan Athletic which took to the field on […]

The rumours are that Gus Poyet is lined up for the vacant position of Sunderland manager. A few months ago Dave Whelan was looking for a new manager, but Poyet was still involved in wranglings over his controversial dismissal at Brighton. Where would Wigan Athletic be now if Poyet had taken over at the DW?