I’m not usually in the business of making public predictions, but then again I’ve never been asked before.  This season Square Football have asked your humble correspondent to take place in their prediction competition so, breaking with tradition, I’ve said yes.  It should be a bit of fun, and if nothing else it’ll give me […]

You’ll be surprised to hear that, thanks to the chaps at 188Bet, we’ve got a pair of free tickets for Saturday’s game with Blackpool to give away.  What do you have to do it return?  It’s as simple as bobbing over to our facebook page, clicking on the “like” button and leaving us a message […]

Well you may not Mr Costello, but the strange truth is, I bloody well did. After a couple of years without a season ticket today became the day I did as I was asked by Dave Whelan’s mailing and re-joined the family.  Of course we all know what a costly business following a football team […]

It’s funny how different people hear things differently isn’t it?  Sky must have been pestering the club today for a line on the rumours that Sunderland are about to whisk Charles N’Zogbia away for ten bob and a bag of grapes.  Eventually they get rentaquote on the line, but there’s obviously no story in the […]

“A laughing stock”, “you’re a bloody joke Wigan”, “we need to sign some proper quality”.   If I’d had a quid every time I’d heard those sentiments over the last six years then I’d have a few quid in the bank, or I might have pissed it all up the wall.  No, I’d almost definitely have […]

I suppose the time has come to give up on thoughts of last season’s end of term review (with apologies to Charles N’Zogbia, Maynor Figueroa, James McCarthy and the teams that beat Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool).  It might only seem like a week or so since the World Cup final, but with the season breathing […]

The notapatchon playlist #6 It’s been a while since the last notapatchon playlist predominately, as with most things around here, because I’m lazy.  I was thinking about that after the little perm dragged me out of bed at way too early o’clock this morning when I was trying to put a plan of attack together […]

…and then Juve start sniffing around your best player. So there you have it, 1st June, contracts are ending and the window is thrown open (found yourself a club yet, Paul?).  Latics jumped the gun a bit, announcing the signing of Mauro Boselli from Argentine giants Estudientes or Boca Juniors, one or the other, or […]

Before we start, I’ve a burning desire to justify why it’s taken me a month to get a start on the season review.  The end if the season did coincide with a period where I’ve just had better things to do, but there’s more to it than that.  Sat at home, with an 8-0 defeat […]

We’ve had our own mini-break over at “Patch Towers” what with getting over end of season thrashings, having loads of stuff on and falling in love with the world of Panini again there just hasn’t been much time. No you’re never to old, and filling those albums remains the single-most relaxingly retro past-time in the world ever, probably. We’ve […]