Having spent the day being bombarded with adverts telling me that Derren Brown was capable of winning the lottery every week but didn’t (or something) it occurred to me that I’d completely forgotten the more serious business of our own little prediction league.  Which was supposed to be all ready and raring to go for […]

Last Season If we break down last seasons results into four sections showing the results for games 1-10, 11-19, 20-28 and 29-38 they are quite revealing.   Games 1-10 So even with the likes of Zaki, Heskey, Valencia, Palacios and Cattermole in the side we still struggled to gain points.  So Zaki’s goals from open […]

I couldn’t focus on the task at hand long enough to write a match preview and I doubt that I’ll do any better with the match report, so I’ll give you my conclusions to start off with.  This was a game played between two sides suffering for confidence one who deserved the win, the other […]

Oh dear! Things seem to have gone a bit pear-shaped over the last few weeks. After 14 years of onwards and upwards we now appear to have reached a crossroad in Latics modern history. In some quarters Bobby is being referred to as Martinez (always a bad sign) and DW seems to have even less […]

There may be trouble ahead… And listening to the aftermath of yesterday’s blank transfer deadline day, there aint going to be any moonlight or music or romance.  It’s not quite time for anyone to be facing the music just yet mind, after all the bulk of this squad is that which finished last season in […]

My friend’s sister ‘s cousin ‘s boyfriend ‘s auntie cuts Gareth Southgate’s nasal hair and she’s heard that Bruce knew that he was leaving Latics in January which was why he tried to scupper the Palacios deal with talk of Man City so he could buy him for his new club. He tapped Cattermole up […]

Blackpool 4-1 LaticsWednesday 26th August 2009You can take positives from any game?  Well to sum this one up, I stayed dry and warm, didn’t have to dash for the train and didn’t have to be in Blackpool for any period where I wasn’t being paid.  I don’t think I’ve ever been really glad that I […]

I’m trying hard to imagine what I would have wrote back in 2005, no doubt I would have tried to tie the fortunes of Latics to those of the victorious Ashes team tried to point to lessons in the way that England approached that series for the way that Latics should approach their first tilt […]

Everton will give you Dixie Dean, Newcastle Jackie Milburn.  You’ve got Jimmy Greaves, Rodger Hunt, Geoff Hurst and I guess, more recently, the likes of Lineker, Fowler and Shearer.  These are strikers whose abilities have faded into the mists of time and become mere myth and legend.  The men who become the stopping off points […]

Are we really going to pretend that we didn’t expect that to happen, or that losing 5-0 to United is more disastrous than being beaten by Wolves?  The Champions coming to town, stung by their own ‘end of the world’ midweek defeat was never going to that enjoyable an experience and with so many points […]