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 […]

Whenever you read this, I’m writing it before the Leicester game. So basically I’m in the same frame of mind as I was when I wrote part 1 of this little catch up, which covered what I’ve been doing instead of paying attention to goings-on at Latics (playing Cricket) and my thoughts on the sh… […]

Or “Wot I done on mi summer holidays” I left things somewhere between the FA Cup final and the game at the Emirates that sealed our Premier League fate. Somewhere between the happiest times and, what some would have you believe was, the worst. I get that for some, experiencing their first relegation, it will […]

There’s a chap I know whose name I can’t mention who always tells me the answer on Latics related movements even though he always puts the words “I think” in front of it, presumably to stop me blabbing about it. He told me that Coyle would be our new manager and he told me which […]

Mexico had an amazing record in World Cup qualifying matches until a week ago. Invariably playing their home matches in front of 100,000 fans at the magnificent Aztec Stadium in Mexico City they had lost only one out of 77 such matches. The ‘Catrachos’ of Honduras were to pull off the shock result of the CONCACAF […]

The fans at Norwich loved Grant Holt. They did not want him to leave. Owen Coyle’s signing of the big centre forward in July looked like the bargain buy of the summer. But why had Holt left a Premier League club where he was idolised to join an outfit that had been relegated to the […]

  Callum McManaman  deservedly won the  ‘Man of the Match’ award at the FA Cup Final, after a scintillating display.  He had run the expensively-assembled Manchester City defence ragged and in doing so he won over many of the armchair critics who had condemned him following the “Horror Tackle” episode. When McManaman walked onto the Wembley turf he […]