The full Premier League debut of a young man who has come through the Wigan Athletic ranks and if the week before was anything to go by looked every bit like it was his time to shine. Sadly, as is often the case with Wigan Athletic the only way we seem to make the […]
We could do with a hum wun, hyem wyn err. Let me start again, I mean we could do with a home win today….it’s been so long I forgot how to say it; that much is evident. But instead of deliberating over our dreadful home record or analysing the reasons why, let’s take this […]
What follows is possibly* a conversation that was overheard coming away from the DW Stadium last Saturday…
1. Buy 94 pies from the Pound Bakery 2. Or 34 Galloways meat and tater if you’re a fussy bugger 3. Drive too fast, get done and use the £47 to pay off your fine. Or get your wife to if you’re a Lib Dem MP 4. Get 282 Wagon Wheels (6 for a £1) […]
Last night I came off a freezing cold football field and checked the scores and then went on to Twitter only to find a load of bells, Aston Villa fans most of them propagating a story that Wigan has taken 25 fans to Bournemouth away on a Tuesday night. It was actually 237 but […]
Empty seats. They’re the hottest topic in the world of football right now, and for once Latics are coming out on the good side of the equation. Mainly because it’s not any empty seat that we’re talking about, it’s 900 of them in a particular corner of North London, with an alleged combined value of […]
As is customary here is the totally unofficial half term report and pupil ratings for the Wigan Athletic Premier League Academy.The first half of this term has been particulary difficult for the headmaster Mr Martinez and his teaching staff as illness plus some questionable test marking by the examination baord has seen the school underperform compared to […]
Oh no he didn’t…oh yes he did…well it is the panto season after all!! Anyway, here we go again. The worms are turning. He promised us top ten this season didn’t he Roberto Martinez? Well, no he didn’t actually he said that as an aspirational target, just as maybe in many other interviews he […]
Allow me to digress for a moment today rather than cast my opinion of another frustrating Saturday afternoon and take a look forward to the festive period by pulling out five Christmas crackers of days gone by: 1. Wigan Athletic 4 Man City 3 Boxing Day 2005. 25,000+ on at a furiously […]