Oh my god, what have I turned into.  I used to call myself a football fan and pride myself on what was going on elsewhere.  I followed the careers of such luminaries as Jermaine McSporron and Danny Schofield.  These days I’m so insular that I’ve just realised I know nowt about Wolves and if I […]

Or Please Release Me, Let Me Go. If it were another player then I’d be tempted to ignore it.  But it’s not another player and they probably wouldn’t have done it anyway.  Earlier in the week, I labelled Lee Cattermole guilty on the basis that he’d taken the 5th, there’s no chance of the same […]

…it’s losing with style. “If we’re going to lose, we’re going to lose in style.  You have to be brave” What more could you want from a manager coming out of his first Premier League in charge?   You might be ready with the accusations of naivety, no one gets anywhere in this division without a […]

By now, you’ll pretty much know it all.  Latics battered Villa who never really turned up.  The top six side looked rigid and limited in their play whilst the rookie manager’s style of play lived up to its promise.  The home side really missed the players that moved on this summer whilst Latics fans were […]

I’m sticking to my theory that it’s better to leave your pre-season review until a couple of weeks in and no doubt I’ll be regaling you some time around the end of the month with my thoughts and feelings about how things might pan out.  Of course, it’s cheating but I have the privilege of […]

Righteous indignation. It’s worth writing just for the sound of it, but it pretty much sums up the feeling following Sunderland’s snatching of Lee Cattermole from Latics’ care yesterday. By any measure, and barring the Leaving Latics Curse striking next on Teesside, Steve Bruce has got himself a bargain. At the lower end of the […]

So that ‘s it. Before we know it, the time for experimenting has ended and it ‘s down to business on Saturday as the Latics bandwagon rolls south to Birmingham for the clash with Aston Villa. So what have we learned from the pre-season campaign? Well, mostly that Northern Rail is still as incompetent as […]

What does Paul Merson Know, eh?  It’s not like he’s ever achieved anything in the game, is it?   Everyone, I’ve spoken to since Merse’s prediction that Latics would surprise people this year, by struggling, has focussed on the negatives in the statement.  In fact it’s put the right Rodney Marshes up some people but […]

As of Saturday we now have a full house, yes everyone of the Perm family have wasted a Saturday afternoon staring at a piece  of grass, waiting for the men in blue and white to do something interesting.  The first little perm went to the last pre-season game when she was three, so same age, […]

At ‘popular request’ and to keep in with the in crowd, [thas] Not a Patch on Harry Lyon will be running a prediction league for the 2009/10 season. Each week, we will select four fixtures and ask members to predict the score for each of them.  Points will be awarded based on how close your […]