I ‘ve never been an advocate of technology in football, or any sport really, I ‘m not a Luddite but I am a great believer in the view that its simplicity is a large part of what makes the game beautiful. In more than essence the game that ‘s played in a games lesson is […]
Back to work this week and I ‘ve not really had chance to think to think about the Wolves game other than a vague intention to email my wolves supporting mate to get a deserved winding up over Latics ‘ chances. Of course I didn ‘t get around to it and now I ‘m left […]
I ‘m sure I ‘ve gone through this before, but just so you know, a ‘first listen review ‘ is what it says on the tin. Each of the reviews that follow are based on first impressions from a single listen (or attempt to listen). That way you don ‘t get me waffling on for […]
One I remember as a hot prospect who couldn ‘t break into Newcastle ‘s defence (!!?!?!) the other I have vague recollections of being linked with a year or so back. Both of Latics ‘ latest signings might come with unknown quantity labels but equally both bring competition to what, so far, has probably been […]
Honestly, I published Friday’s match preview about ten minutes before I found out about the pitch inspection scheduled for this morning. I was quite chuffed at the time, what with all the stuff and nonsense about lil ole Wigan this week it would have been nice to see us pull off a coup and be […]
Sloblocks! As Sir Stephen Fry once put it. Time which should be spent on the 658 from sub-tropical Leigh to the match-fit environs of the DW stadium shall now be otherwise filled. An 8:30am inspection of an un-heated pitch in minus daft conditions revealed , wait for it, yep , frozen, bugger me , never […]
League positions, form and just sheer gut reaction tell you that this game is more likely to hinge on how Latics cope with Villa’s attacking threat than how much they threat they pose themselves and you can currently get 13-1 for a 2-0 away win against 20-1 for the reverse score over on Betfair. Things […]
Happy New Year, all the best for 2010 and all that… Let’s face it, on the Latics front; it would struggle to be worse than 2009 could it? After two half seasons that saw Latics scrape just over the magic 40 point per season mark, sell the core of the best team that we may […]
I realise that this is a bit on the late side, but it’s not only the team that have been suffering for form of late and a bout of some kind of lurgy or other, in top of the chaos that is Christmas with two young kids has pretty much done for any festive plans […]
Less than 2,000 people cared one way or the other whether the club folded or not. But, this dedicated Latics ‘journo’ was there at a time when it was most certainly fashionable to be elsewhere. That man was Ed Jones. Ed’s two passions in life (apart, I sense, from his wife and family), are music […]