Excuses? There are none. I read somewhere once that football is a game of mistakes, and that’s about right. Rarely is it a moment of brilliance that takes home the points and whilst it happens more frequently, well worked moves finishing in goals are few and far between. Just look at how many goals come […]
I reckon it would be easier to break the Enigma Code than it would to understand the inner workings of the minds of our team. 2 nil down and still playing the ball beautifully across the back line. If you asked anyone to predict the likely outcome from the Hull game on Saturday I […]
There’s more to come on Saturday’s game, but until then, a little bit of slightly smug reminiscing. It was January 1980 and an eight year old Perm was woken in what felt like the middle of the night by a Perm snr, smelling of ale, and telling him that Latics had beaten Chelsea. What was […]
Sit there for a moment and take a deep breath. Smell that? That’s the sweet aroma of victory. Okay, you can breathe out again if you want. Now, like the vast majority of Latics supporters at the DW Stadium today, I fully expected to be expelling my fair share of oxygen to the point I […]
The attitude of a number of Latics’ wonderful keyboard warriors has really got on my wick this week, so much that I nearly couldn’t be bothered writing this preview, but hey, I’m on a train and I’ve nothing else to do, so let’s go, and to start with, let’s get a couple of things out […]
Anyone reading some of the irrational comments on some Latic message boards you would think we’d already been relegated but there is a different way of looking at matters in a more logical manner. At present it is wrong to look at the results for the early part of last season and compare them […]
We’ve done ‘woe is me’, we’ve done “don’t panic” and we’ve done “there once was a girl who had a little curl”, now I’m stumped. There isn’t much you can say about a performance like this one. I attempted to recall ghosts of Christmases past in my match preview by mentioning the Carling Cup semi […]
This article was going to start “I don’t hate Arsenal. I don’t really hate any Premier League sides”. But as I typed, I realised that time and progress has caught up with me and I now have a distinct animosity towards at least three of the current batch. I’ve joked in the past about how […]
This will hoprfully end up being a proper series of blogs, but for now I haven’t got time so this brain dump will do for starters. The idea is that I’ll pick the best of the week’s ‘new’ releases and share them with you. You then get to slag me off or throw up your […]
Latics 1-0 West HamSaturday 12th September 2009 It’s a bit late to be writing the match report for Saturday’s game, but I guess that’s the price of having a life too deal with. To cut a long story after the horse has bolted, massive hangovers, a dinner party that I’m not even invited to, first […]