Wigan Athletic 1-1 Middlesbrough Sunday 18th September 2005 The Boro game was a perfect example of how ‘THE MOST EXCITING LEAGUE IN THE WORLD’ can just as easily be seen as ‘the league where everyone fears defeat more than they want to win’. Early signs were promising, but once they’d got the early goal Yakubu […]

There’s only one thing that anyone is talking about today, the start of Series 4 of Spooks has been completely overwhelmed by one of the biggest sporting contests around the prize for which has to be the smallest trophy going.  Bizarrely on a day where the country is united in sickies and duvet days, I […]

The reserves managed their first point of the season last night. On promotion, the club were given the choice of stepping the reserve team up to a similar level or remaining in their old set up. They took the opportunity, and thus far it has been these games more than any that have shown us […]

West Brom 1 – 2 Wigan Athletic Saturday 10th September 2005 On day of debuts for strikers all across the Premier League it could be argued that David Connolly’s had the lowest profile.  Yet come 4:45 he was the only one that had the immediate impact that fans look for.  Elsewhere Owen’s first start for […]

Another Saturday, another ‘relegation battle’.  In any other division it would be too early in the season to start deciding who’s going to finish where, but it seems that the big bad world of top flight football is one place where your destiny is predetermined.  Of course the media are going to believe that the […]

Well you’d think a week off work would actually give more time to keep this up to date, but no.  Between trips to the zoo (South Lakes – give it a go if you’re up there), the Farm (Farmer Ted’s – kick the kids off the go karts and have a race round yourselves), other […]

Now I’ve checked with the lawyers and I’ll probably be alright with this one and five seems like a nice round number.  A list of 10 things is too many and even 7 would probably be weak, 3 would definitely be too short and 1 would just be an article by itself.  So here it […]

Well, we thought it was all over, but it’s not.  Latics are now looking to sign ex-Barcelona player and Spanish international Pep Guardiola.  He’s not contracted to anyone at the moment which means that his signing wouldn’t be affected by the transfer window.  Now I remember him as a class act, but he’s been awfully […]

I’ve just found the source for the recent spate of comments from Chairman Dave.  It would appear that he’s keeping a Premier League diary for the Manchester Evening News.  Yesterdays offering was the gospel relating to Michael Owen.  We did make a bid, we spoke to is agent and it wasn’t a publicity stunt.  Owen […]

It’s just like the end of March used to be but in summertime. Transfer deadline day was one of the more exciting days in the football calendar. The difference is that this season, regardless of where we finished up, would be our first operating within transfer windows. Now I’m not about to debate the pros […]