It is getting increasingly obvious that it’s just me. Not that long ago it looked likely that we’d be spending the summer reading about which clubs were about to put bids in for Valencia and Palacios. Both players have their qualities and it’s fairly easy to see why someone might want to buy them, maybe […]
There’s one simple thing that separates good teams from bad ones. No scratch that, there are plenty of benchmarks to measure how good a side is, but there’s just the one deciding factor in deciding how successful a team is. Whether it’s about stopping them or scoring them, football is all about goals. The last […]
Paul Jewell’s departure from Wigan Athletic was never going to end happily for all concerned. There had been debate, throughout the seven year success story, about whether Latics had been successful because of the man at the helm or he had managed what he had because of the club he was at. In the end, […]
I normally save the announcement of the ‘Not a patch on…’ player of the season until later in the review process, but it can’t wait this year because I’ve got something to get off my chest. What on earth are you thinking people? Paul Scharner? Paul Bloody Scharner? Ok, so he throws himself about, strut […]
Despite the season turning into one of relative success and Latics finishing off with a run of form that would do for 80% of the division, I’m struggling to motivate myself to pull together a review of what hopefully will prove a real watershed for the club. In fact the whole nine months has been […]
How do you want to play this? Shall we ignore the fact that there were two teams on the pitch and focus on United’s success or shall we give condescending praise to Latics for bothering to turn up? Well, the media seem to have both those angles covered well enough without me having to bother. […]
With draws against Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea in the bag, Steve Bruce may already have thought his side had already had their say in the title race and would be looking forward to a nice final afternoon in the sun, helping his old gaffer celebrate the close of another successful league season. Instead it will […]
Well, I got it wrong again. After writing off any possibility of Latics deciding their own destiny they returned from Villa Park not only with safety confirmed but with three points, enough to take them to the magical forty point mark, and a performance that, notwithstanding next week, could rank up there as the best […]
With the finish line in sight, it’s almost as if Latics’ own results don’t matter. I doubt I’d be saying that if we were playing Newcastle and Sunderland over the next two weeks, but instead we’ve got one of the form teams in the division and the team with poll position but plenty to do […]
You could almost hear the orgasm in Clive Tyldesley’s voice as he announced, without any sense of irony the biggest game ever between two English club sides, the ultimate vindication of the media fallacy that the Premier League is the biggest and best footballing arena in the whole wide universe. Yes, it’s great, but in reality […]