Wigan opened their Championship league campaign in sun kissed Barnsley with a comfortable four nil victory , a result that in truth flattered Barnsley, so dominant was Wigan’s performance with Ben Watson the stand out performer.[PPD_PAYTOREADMORE] Owen Coyle went for a mix of the old and the new with his team selection with five of […]
Barnsley 0 – 4 Wigan Athletic Oakwell Ref Geoff Eltrigham Attendance 13,096 Wigan started life in the championship with an impressive win at Oakwell. Yes a solid 4-0 win, with also a good start for their defence with Scott Carson keeping a clean sheet, an area Wigan’s Owen Coyle would be happy with. Another plus […]
Wigan’s pre season preparations ended in defeat following an entertaining game against Dundee Untied, a game which enabled Owen Coyle to assess the strengths and weakness of his new charges against a combative Scottish outfit.
Wigan fans who made the short trip to the sun kissed Lancashire coastal town of Morecambe were rewarded with a fine performance from Owen Coyles charges as the new manager seeks to identify his best starting eleven prior to the advent of the new season in less than two weeks time. Owen Coyle once […]
Wigan Athletic continued their run of pre-season victories with a win over Atromitos at Leigh Sports Village. The Athens-based team, also competing in Europe, promised to give Wigan a stern test and so it was to prove. Despite standing on a 2-0 lead at half time, Wigan must have been glad to hear the […]
Wigan Athletic got their pre-season match preparations underway with a 2-1 win in Columbus, Ohio. Latics looked in control from the start. After a pedestrian first half in which neither side looked like scoring, Wigan were 2-0 in front when a deflected goal got the home team back in the game after […]
In a game which meant nothing to either side in terms of league status, Wigan and Villa fought out an entertaining draw in front of a noisy crowd determined to see their respective heroes off in style.
Harold Wilson once opined ,”A week is a along time in politics,” Roberto Martinez could be forgiven for thinking the same about football as Wigan went from the unbounded joy of winning the F.A. Cup final to the abject misery of relegation from the cash cow that is the Premier League.
There’s an old adage in football that on any given day a good little ‘un can beat a good big ‘un. Yesterday that happened as Wigan Athletic with a team that cost eleven million pounds and due to injury virtually picked itself beat a Manchester City team valued at 0ne hundred and fifty million and […]
A poor performance with too many players performing below their normal levels saw Wigan lose at home to Swansea and lose the opportunity to move out of the bottom three. Roberto Martinez made three changes from the side which performed credibly at West Bromwich, Espinoza replacing the injured Beausejour and two tactical changes the re-introduction […]