Bloody away fans in our end, grrrrr, Greater Manchester Police, &^&*%!!$, Wigan Council, pah!  Although I’ve had my beefs with all of them in recent times*, it’s been restricted to grumbles because, when it comes down to it things have been more “us against the world” rather than things that have directly affected me.  As […]

Let’s start off honestly; I’m a lazy sod, especially when it comes to writing.  I have hard drives littered with the openings to a sketches of countless, no doubt brilliant, articles that I never finished before the moment had been lost and even more ideas that stayed in my brain after not even making it […]

The Lottery Winners – The Standard Mower – Saturday 16th January So, Thawday is here. Latics get back on track with a 2-0 win at Wolves and The Pie At Night (or should it be Late Night Lobby for this edition) celebrates by slutchin’ it’s or his way to that big white pub on Chapel […]

I ‘ve never been an advocate of technology in football, or any sport really, I ‘m not a Luddite but I am a great believer in the view that its simplicity is a large part of what makes the game beautiful. In more than essence the game that ‘s played in a games lesson is […]

I ‘m sure I ‘ve gone through this before, but just so you know, a ‘first listen review ‘ is what it says on the tin. Each of the reviews that follow are based on first impressions from a single listen (or attempt to listen). That way you don ‘t get me waffling on for […]

Honestly, I published Friday’s match preview about ten minutes before I found out about the pitch inspection scheduled for this morning.  I was quite chuffed at the time, what with all the stuff and nonsense about lil ole Wigan this week it would have been nice to see us pull off a coup and be […]

Sloblocks! As Sir Stephen Fry once put it. Time which should be spent on the 658 from sub-tropical Leigh to the match-fit environs of the DW stadium shall now be otherwise filled. An 8:30am inspection of an un-heated pitch in minus daft conditions revealed , wait for it, yep , frozen, bugger me , never […]

Happy New Year, all the best for 2010 and all that… Let’s face it, on the Latics front; it would struggle to be worse than 2009 could it?  After two half seasons that saw Latics scrape just over the magic 40 point per season mark, sell the core of the best team that we may […]

… And thinner, faster, didn’t drink as much and was better at football. You know the debate about how past heroes would have fared in the modern game (let’s call it the Campbell conundrum)?  Or the one about whether more recently departed players would have coped with stepping up a division or two (the Ellington […]

Have I been saved from an evening freezing my balls off worried that Bolton were going to get one over on us or robbed of my pre-Christmas dose of football?  Have Latics been robbed of a chance to get their season rolling or have they handily had an important game moved until after they’ve had […]