I play poker, or at least I do if it’s still called poker when you play as badly as I do. It’s probably just called “slow money transfer” or “pissing your disposable income up the wall”. It’s not that I don’t know how to play poker, at least at a basic level, it’s just that […]

There’s more to come on Saturday’s game, but until then, a little bit of slightly smug reminiscing.  It was January 1980 and an eight year old Perm was woken in what felt like the middle of the night by a Perm snr, smelling of ale, and telling him that Latics had beaten Chelsea.  What was […]

Sit there for a moment and take a deep breath. Smell that? That’s the sweet aroma of victory. Okay, you can breathe out again if you want. Now, like the vast majority of Latics supporters at the DW Stadium today, I fully expected to be expelling my fair share of oxygen to the point I […]

The attitude of a number of Latics’ wonderful keyboard warriors has really got on my wick this week, so much that I nearly couldn’t be bothered writing this preview, but hey, I’m on a train and I’ve nothing else to do, so let’s go, and to start with, let’s get a couple of things out […]

Anyone reading some of the irrational comments on some Latic message boards you would think we’d already been relegated but there is a different way of looking at matters in a more logical manner.   At present it is wrong to look at the results for the early part of last season and compare them […]

We’ve done ‘woe is me’, we’ve done “don’t panic” and we’ve done “there once was a girl who had a little curl”, now I’m stumped.  There isn’t much you can say about a performance like this one.  I attempted to recall ghosts of Christmases past in my match preview by mentioning the Carling Cup semi […]

This article was going to start “I don’t hate Arsenal.  I don’t really hate any Premier League sides”.  But as I typed, I realised that time and progress has caught up with me and I now have a distinct animosity towards at least three of the current batch.  I’ve joked in the past about how […]

This will hoprfully end up being a proper series of blogs, but for now I haven’t got time so this brain dump will do for starters. The idea is that I’ll pick the best of the week’s ‘new’ releases and share them with you. You then get to slag me off or throw up your […]

Latics 1-0 West HamSaturday 12th September 2009 It’s a bit late to be writing the match report for Saturday’s game, but I guess that’s the price of having a life too deal with.  To cut a long story after the horse has bolted, massive hangovers, a dinner party that I’m not even invited to, first […]

Back in the Eighties i was a little bit younger and was having the time of my life Depeche Mode were saying that People were People and Wigans own were being a bit “too shy” It was a great time for Music and Football, Football in those days was in the lower divisions but it […]