Latics 3-1 St MirrenSaturday 8th August 2009 A fiver is not that much for 90 minutes of football, but for a week’s worth of mental turmoil trying to pick through proceedings and their relevance for the real stuff that starts in a week’s time? They probably owe me. You’d think I’d have learned my lesson […]
For a side who have consistently struggled on the goal scoring front it’s a bit worrying. We’re a week away from the start of the season and Roberto Martinez’s first team squad looks like it will contain a grand total of, erm, two strikers. At the same time Latics seem to be collecting midfielders like […]
For the first time since promotion to the Premier League we have only lost one first team player in the summer transfer market, that was the lost of Luis Valencia to Manchester United for a rumoured fee of £16 Milllion. The other players to go Camara, Siberski, and Montrose will not affect us greatly but […]
IN MY EYES HE DID ——————- I am sitting here watching the BBC tribute programme on Saturday night for the man that was Sir Bobby Robson and it nearly had me in tears so much I felt I had to write this blog. In my youth which seems so long ago I grew to admire […]
Wigan Athletic’s new orange away kit seems to have split opinions amongst the club’s fanbase, but at least the new ‘Tangerine Dream’, as I like to call it, has been Christened with a stomping 4-1 victory over Preston. There now follows a very cheesy lineup of songs which will no doubt be heard blasting out […]
Sexy Football it really is Sexy Football———————————————— Hi again Had a great time on tuesday at Deepdale on a wet Summers night the Latics knocked the Northenders into tomorrow with a display of Sexy football thats never been seen before in a Wigan kit. Me and my family arrived at the ground 15mins before ko […]
The purpose of this article is threefold. Firstly, to try and identify the cyclist in the photographs who are all believed to have competed at Springfield Park in the early 1900’s. So if anyone out there can assist in naming any of them I would be very grateful if you would let me know. […]
Indeed, ’tis true. Take a gander at the website of any moderately successful football club and you ‘ll find a whole plethora of other naff items for sale, ranging from the standard mugs and window stickers to the more unusual team branded undercrackers and even flavoured condoms. Probably. When Uncle Dave decided to cut the […]
Next month brings the start of my 50th season as a Laticsmon – let me indulge myself and select a team of my favourite players – not the best players, but ones that have stuck in my Latics subconcious all these years. First, I’ll just twang my braces and put my toes in my cosiest pair […]
There’s a temptation to sneer at the signing of James McCarthy. He may be the hottest prospect in Scottish football; he’s only 18 and being anything in Scottish football doesn’t really equate to anything anywhere else. But there’s another take on this, and the targeting of the likes of Victor Moses, Roman Golobart and Curtis […]