Yesterday could well have been the day. The day Latics fans have been dreaming of for so many years, the day we finally put one over on the ‘mighty’ Manchester United, the day people actually sit up and take notice of Little Wigan as a real threat in the top flight of English football. It […]
There’s not much I’d take from Blackpool fans and I’m particularly loving how they’re getting all that “plucky little…” stuff they used to rip shreds off us for, but there is something that I am envious of and that’s the gidiness of those first flushes of top flight football. Walking into Old Trafford, 70,000 people, […]
Latics 1-0 West Brom Saturday 13th November 2010 What do Wigan Athletic have in common with John Sargeant, Ann Widdecombe, and that Wagner off the X-factor? No, it’s not that we’re rubbish, it’s that we’ve developed a habit of sticking about a lot longer than the establishment want us to, it’s getting to the stage […]
Latics 1-1 Liverpool Wednesday 10th November 2010 Which idiot wrote that match preview? A resurgent Liverpool heading in the right direction, undoubtedly a better team than Latics who will be chasing a European place come May? I thought I was kidding myself by weakly talking up Latics’ chances but who’d have thought it would turn […]
We’re a quarter of the way in now and reaching a stage where the table should begin to take shape, there are signs already that the remarkable tightness that has fogged early impressions of this season for everyone has started to relax. Unfortunately that has coincided with Latics losing two games that we might have […]
It wasn’t meant to work out this way, but an over-riding period of lethargy sandwiched between a bout of manflu and another of lurgy mean that it’s been almost a month since we talked football. Yes, we’ve pretty much missed all of October, a month which (co-incidentally) I wrote about in the current issue of […]
I might be too busy to say anything on the newcastle game, but there’s always time to remind you of a good night out: LATICS UNITED LOOK FORWARD TO SOUL EVENT This Friday sees the long awaited inaugural First Avenue Soul Night event and all Latics fans still have an opportunity to be part of […]
Let me start by congratulating the town’s other professional sporting team on their success the other week. Yes it’s belated, yes it’s done through clenched teeth but sporting success deserves a pat on the back. The buzz of achieving something like a Super League title must be great after so long without and the style […]
I know this is going to be about the fourth time you’ve read this, but some things are worth saying more than once (or more than four times in fact). Whether you want to contribute to an excellent cause, show that Latics fans are the disparate bunch of bickering bods, that everyone thinks we are, […]
Latics 2-0 Wolves Saturday 2nd October 2010 Honestly, I’m struggling with this one. Not because I don’t know how to describe the game or how I feel about the result. Not because I’m unhappy about the team or uninspired by the performance. It’s not even got anything to with the Second Division standard drinking session […]