A notapatchon playlist #7. There’s not much for me to waffle on about with the seventh of our playlists.  There’s no theme or even any point in me trying to draw the most shaky of lines between the songs other than them being what I’ve been listening to over the last couple of weeks as […]

Wow, I’ve managed to keep a feature running for three games on the bounce.  That’s got to be some kind of record.  Not quite up there with a -10 goal difference or the number of people who are wondering whether they’ll be able to get a stream for tonight’s game, but it’s impressive for me.  […]

Thanks to this morning’s Autotune scandal, today’s post match blog is brought to you by the letter X, the number 6 and some, frankly, crap pop music. “Do you believe in life after love?” might have been a poignant for Cher, or whoever penned Believe for her, but it’s hardly up there with “To be, […]

No faffing about this week.  I’m hungover and you’ve already got two articles out of me, but as people have been busy shooting their mouths off all week about one thing or another it would be a missed opportunity if I didn’t run you through the 5 subjects I expect to overhear this afternoon (or […]

After being sooooo cross on Saturday and Sunday it only took until Monday lunchtime for me to get over losing to Blackpool (around about the same time I realised that the only crap I was going to get was from people who I’m sure were Liverpool or United fans back in May, it’s not just […]

After last season’s prediction league debacle, I’ve gone for the simple option of setting up your bog-standard fantasy football league. To be precise I’ve set up 2. They’re both on http://fantasy.premierleague.com and I’ve set up a traditional league (they who get most points wins) and a head to head league (teams are drawn against each other […]

The age old question of whether the football supporters of Wigan deserve a Premier League football team had an answer yesterday.  If what we saw was the real Wigan Athletic team, then it doesn’t deserve a premier league support.  In fact it probably didn’t deserve the proverbial one man and his dog.  Woeful, chaotic, disastrous, […]

As I type this, I’m making my daily journey from Blackpool to Wigan (thankfully that’s the home leg of my working day), I’ve been doing the trip for over eleven years and I’ve even been arsed enough to travel to watch the Tangerines when they weren’t playing Latics, so surely I can come up with […]

…but it’s filled full of hope. No, I’ve not left this to the last minute, I’ve spent all summer mulling over the permutations, probabilities and player movements in order to put this season preview together.  Despite rumours to the contrary, there is absolutely no way that I’m working on a three day plan to get […]

Scott from The Republick of Mancunia dropped into Notapatchon Towers over the summer with some questions about Latics, United and Latics vs United.  He seemed a nice chap so I let him in and had a chat.  You can read more about it here: http://therepublikofmancunia.com/view-from-the-enemy-wigan-fan-on-valencia-stealing-liverpools-song-and-bobby/#respond