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 […]
Since that glorious day at Wembley were my club, Wigan Athletic deservedly won the famous old trophy, various fans of other clubs have asked me “have you got over it?” (meaning relegation from the greed league) I rise to my full height, belly in, chest out (no mean feat […]
Wigan Athletic can announce they will take on Scottish Premier League side Dundee United in a pre-season friendly at the DW Stadium on Saturday 27 July with a 3.00pm kick off. The game will see new Manager Owen Coyle take charge of his first home game at the DW Stadium, one week […]
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.
It was billed as the grand finale to a topsy turvy season for Wigan Athletic. The home match with fellow strugglers, Aston Villa, was to be crucial in determining Latics’ future in the Premier League. But sometimes things just don’t work out as you hope they will. Wigan Athletic go into their last match […]
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.
As you may have noticed, keeping the writing going over the last year has been difficult, for reasons both personal and footballing. Hell, the last eight years have been hard if you want to talk football, but that’s just the game we love, isn’t it? It’s like teenage poetry, wave after wave of […]
The day Wigan established themselves among football’s elite When you watch it again on television, it is hard to tell that Ben Watson’s FA Cup winning header actually happened in slow motion. But from my bright red Wembley seat about 15 yards away, I can assure you that the world stopped […]
Last summer Indonesia played a friendly against Inter Milan in the Senayan Stadium in the centre of the city. One expected to see the red and white colours of Indonesia in that ground that holds 65,000 people, but probably around 70% of the crowd wore the blue and black replica shirts of […]
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 […]