I reckon that just about now the rats will be considering their next move, do they jump back onto the sinking ship and wait for their next chance to stamp their feet and tell us that they’re not coming again, again or do they stay where they are, prodding us with pointed sticks, telling us […]

In all my years watching Wigan Athletic, and they’re not insubstantial, I’ve never been so cross, I’ve never been so frustrated and I’ve never been so close to chucking it all in and starting all over again.  This business with Charles N’Zogbia has just gone too far, it’s pushed me over the edge, I’m sick […]

aka, Blackpool seafront So what with all the clichéd stereotypical nonsense that will be floating around under the guise of match previews and predictions this weekend, notapatchon decided to make a good use of NRP’s dinner break and send him down to see Gypsy Sammy Lee down on Blackpool prom to see if she’d get […]

aka, Blackpool seafront So what with all the clichéd stereotypical nonsense that will be floating around under the guise of match previews and predictions this weekend, notapatchon decided to make a good use of NRP’s dinner break and send him down to see Gypsy Sammy Lee down on Blackpool prom to see if she’d get […]

Around this time of year I would normally write a piece bemoaning the death of the League Cup maybe suggesting some ways in which it could be improved, how we could get away from the position where the competition simply doesn’t matter any more.  It’s all nonsense of course because all you need to do […]

A notapatchon playlist #7. There’s not much for me to waffle on about with the seventh of our playlists.  There’s no theme or even any point in me trying to draw the most shaky of lines between the songs other than them being what I’ve been listening to over the last couple of weeks as […]

Wow, I’ve managed to keep a feature running for three games on the bounce.  That’s got to be some kind of record.  Not quite up there with a -10 goal difference or the number of people who are wondering whether they’ll be able to get a stream for tonight’s game, but it’s impressive for me.  […]

Thanks to this morning’s Autotune scandal, today’s post match blog is brought to you by the letter X, the number 6 and some, frankly, crap pop music. “Do you believe in life after love?” might have been a poignant for Cher, or whoever penned Believe for her, but it’s hardly up there with “To be, […]

No faffing about this week.  I’m hungover and you’ve already got two articles out of me, but as people have been busy shooting their mouths off all week about one thing or another it would be a missed opportunity if I didn’t run you through the 5 subjects I expect to overhear this afternoon (or […]