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?
Owen Coyle surely knows that the npower Championship is not an easy place for a football manager. He has been there twice before. In the 2008-09 season he was successful, taking Burnley back to the top tier of English football for the first time since 1976. Just over three years later his inability to halt […]
Ryan Shotton has made a promising start to his career at Wigan Athletic. The big 24 year old defender arrived at Wigan only three weeks ago, on loan from Stoke City until January. We reached out to a father and son team who are lifelong Stoke City fanatics for their views on the player. Our thanks go to Will Condliffe, and […]
I know that I was supposed to be embarrassed by all those defeats over the last four seasons, the 9-1, all those drubbings against United and Arsenal and the countless cup exits to lower division sides. I know I was supposed to be but, by-and-large, I wasn’t. Just as I wasn’t when Paul Jewell was […]
As history making years go 2013 will certainly go down as the biggest of the lot for Wigan Athletic. The first FA Cup Quarter-final appearance in 26 years was closely followed by the clubs first ever FA Cup semi-final and you know the rest. Another landmark moment takes place later this week as Wigan Athletic […]