HOME KIT Manufacturer: Ellgren Badge: Tree & Crown Shirt Sponsor: Heinz Comments: Fairly radical new design by local firm Ellgren, not everyones cup of tea, but at least the club badge returned and the home kit was more pleasing to the eye than the away one. 6/10 AWAY KIT 1986-87 Manufacturer: Ellgren Badge: Tree […]
HOME KIT Manufacturer: Ellgren Badge: Tree & Crown Shirt Sponsor: Heinz Comments: Nice enough design but was scrapped after just one season, slowly but surely we’re heading back for an all blue top. 7/10 AWAY KIT 88-91 Manufacturer: Ellgren Badge: Tree & Crown/Coat of Arms Shirt Sponsor: Heinz Comments: Third return to yellow in ten […]
Home Kit Manufacturer: Ellgren Badge: Coat of Arms Shirt Sponsor: Heinz Comments: Intrdouction of the all blue top coincided with the first use of the Wigan Coat of Arms as the club motif. Socks and shorts stayed the same as the previous season. 7/10 Home 1989 Identical kit to the 89-91 above, but worn with […]
HOME KIT Manufacturer: Matchwinner Badge: Coat of Arms Shirt Sponsor: Heinz Comments: Unfortunate that such a decent kit will be best remembered for an influx of crap players and our first ever relegation. 8/10 AWAY KIT Manufacturer: Matchwinner Badge: Coat of Arms Shirt Sponsor: Heinz Comments: Identical to the home strip but with a change […]
HOME KIT Manufacturer: Matchwinner Badge: Coat of Arms Shirt Sponsor: Heinz/JJB Sports Comments: Almost eight years on from its introduction and still the topic of great debate with fans either loving it or loathing it. Pity it was designed like the Inter Milan kit when most of the players were Inter CableTel level. 2/10 AWAY […]
Gomes Saves Thwart Dominant Wigan The famous English Victorian poet Robert Browning wrote in his poem, Home thoughts from abroad, “Oh, to be in England now that April ’s there
I guess the rest of the season starts here, eight games, eight weeks and a tilt at recovering a year that’s never really got going. It’s going to be a rollercoaster, for sure and it’s not always going to be easy to keep the faith, but you definitely should and you should definitely enjoy yourselves […]
HOME KIT Manufacturer: Puma Badge: Tree & Crown Shirt Sponsor: JJB Sports Comments: No one will need reminding of this extremely popular kit from an exciting chapter in Latics history. Even the introduction of green onto the home kit was forgiven by most people. 8/10 AWAY KIT Manufacturer: Puma Badge: Tree & Crown Shirt Sponsor: […]
HOME KIT Manufacturer: Adidas Badge: Coat of Arms Shirt Sponsor: JJB Sports Comments: Only down side to this strip was at first it brought back memories of Argentina beating England in the World Cup. Last shirt to be worn at Springfield before the move to the JJB. AWAY KITs Manufacturer: Adidas Badge: Coat of […]
HOME KIT Manufacturer: Adidas Badge: Coat of Arms Shirt Sponsor: JJB Sports Comments: The last of the Adidas kits. It was based on the World Cup strips supplied by the company and introduced a thin green horizontal stripe to break up what would have been similar shirt to the last one. Worn at Wembley […]