‘The pitch was a great leveller’ is basically one of those great football come phrases. It translates roughly into ‘the away team, full of fancy Dans and prima donnas are looking for an excuse to explain their poor performance against a team they should be beating easily’. Surprisingly, despite the difference in league position between […]
Apologies if this comes as a surprise to any of you, but the JJB stadium is built next to the River Douglas. Further shocks may lie in the fact that, with it being in Marsh Green it is probably built on… wait for it … a marsh. For good measure, and just in case it […]
That will teach me to be all optimistic, won’t it? On a night where the pundits would have you believe that 18 points were at stake, Latics ended up bottom of the pile, giving Boro a leg-up on the way and leaving the fans with very little to smile about. That Steve Bruce can point […]
With NRP missing the Chelsea game, he passed on reporting responsibilities to my good self, sorry for the delay but my busy life , lazy attitude and addiction to online poker has slowed me up a bit. More attempts on goal , more on target , territorial advantage, caught offside less, less fouls committed… Well […]
Well that was horrible, but at least it’s over and done with. No, I’m not talking about playing against a team whose modus operadum is to wait for the other team to make a mistake, no matter how dull it makes it for the fans. What I’m talking about is that, for the first time […]
You’d have thought that the mad panic to squeeze games in before the international/European break finishes would have reminded me but I’m obviously still not used to this Premier League malarkey. Looking at the table yesterday I noticed that the majority of teams had 23 games behind them and thought, ’20 points at the half […]
On a day that will do nothing to dissuade the persistent one in, one out theorists Steve Bruce has allowed Denny Landzaat to leave the club and signed Marlon King. The moves will probably stop us being linked with any more strikers, but open us up to a deluge of ‘bolstering midfield’ rumours over the […]
This morning, I expressed the views that a) Latics were unlikely to sign any one else and b) there was a fair chance that Jason Koumas would be out of the door before the transfer window closed. If he hadn’t taken the time out of his busy schedule to ring me last week, I’d now […]
I told you last week that I wouldn’t be at this one, nor was I able to watch it live on TV. I managed better than the Likely Lads though and avoided any info on the game until I was able to sit down with my Sky+ about 7pm. There was certainly enough about the […]
As transfer windows go, this one has been fairly quiet for the boys and girls that cover Wigan Athletic. The brief flurry of speculation that is the hallmark of football’s New Year aside, Latics have kept out of the gossip columns and there’s a growing feeling that Bruce may be saving his spending money for […]