A Wigan side lacking three central midfielders and three centre backs eventually succumbed to Manchester City but for seventy minutes Wigan were more than a match for their more illustrious opponents and had Kone shown more composure in front of goal Wigan may have come away from a freezing DW stadium with at least a share […]
Rob Pollard from Man City blog Typical City popped over the other day to ask me some questions ahead of tonight’s game, so I took the opportunity to ask him the six questions that you’re dying to ask the next City fans that you can lay your hands on. Not that there’d be any excuse […]
Injury ravaged Wigan gave Chairman Dave Whelan a birthday present to remember producing an exciting enthralling performance to seal a last gasp victory with Jordi Gomez very much the hero. Roberto Martinez was forced into several changes from the side which started against Liverpool last week with Jones, Gomez and Stam starting for Watson, Di […]
Yes, we promised a regular feature and three weeks on the bounce is not only that, it’s probably some kind of record for us as well. You might notice the change of name, which has come about because yours truly has failed to notice that his newspaper of choice has been running a piece called […]
Wigan suffered their first defeat to Liverpool in six games when Liverpool’s one and only real threat this season, Luis Suarez scored twice within ten second half minutes to kill off a game Wigan very rarely threatened in.
Steven from Red and White Kop popped over to TNS this week, to gather some of our thoughts on tomorrow’s game and discuss the finer points of Louis Suarez’s personality. So we took the opportunity to extend our latest irregular feature to a positively long-running episode #2. Nil points to you all for failing to […]
West Bromwich Albion won their first away game of Steve Clark’s tenure but home manager Roberto Martinez will be left to rue his shot shy charges inability once again to turn possession and dominance into goals.
So with Mark from Albion Til We Die, popping over to ask me 20 questions ahead of today’s game I spied a chance to ask some back and maybe get a regular feature going to boot. So here are his answers to the six questions that I know you’re all dying to ask of Albion […]
Unsurprisingly following last Saturday’s excellent performance against West Ham , followed by the Capitol One cup debacle against Bradford, Roberto Martinez opted to re-instate the eight players rested on Tuesday with James McArthur the odd one out , being replaced by Ben Watson in his more familiar role of central midfield. Wigan’s record defeat was of […]
Wigan Athletic manager made nine changes to the side which performed so well against West Ham at the weekend with only Ramis and Al Habsi retaining their places in the starting line up. In amongst the nine changes there were surprise starts for Redmond and Fyvie with midfielder Ben Watson given the unfamiliar role as […]