Are we really going to pretend that we didn’t expect that to happen, or that losing 5-0 to United is more disastrous than being beaten by Wolves? The Champions coming to town, stung by their own ‘end of the world’ midweek defeat was never going to that enjoyable an experience and with so many points […]
Latics 0-5 Manchester UnitedSaturday 22nd August 2009 Is that it? Is it time to sack the manager, bin the game plan get back to lumping long balls and running around in circles? If you were even thinking of thinking yes to any of those questions then you’ve obviously forgotten what happened the last time Arsenal […]
The Arndale, Aflecks, Aspecto. The Smiths, The Roses, The Mondays. The Ritz, The Hacienda, The Roadhouse. These are the things that come to my mind when I cast it eastward up the East Lancs. It occasionally drags up images of goalposts, crowds and sky blue shirts, but always sky blue, never red. Is it strange […]
Latics 0-1 WolvesTuesday 18th August 2009 It’s hard to comment on a performance like this one without ending up sounding like a right old whinger “Oooh, they bullied us, but… But…”, “The referee was terrible”, “sob, we were tired”. You’ve heard it all before, in fact I’ll guarantee that you’ve been there. The short and […]
… and she had a little curl, right in the middle of her forehead. When she was good, she was very, very good and when she was bad, she was horrid. It struck me on Tuesday that this little rhyme from my childhood described how this season’s total football experiment might end up looking. However […]
Oh my god, what have I turned into. I used to call myself a football fan and pride myself on what was going on elsewhere. I followed the careers of such luminaries as Jermaine McSporron and Danny Schofield. These days I’m so insular that I’ve just realised I know nowt about Wolves and if I […]
Or Please Release Me, Let Me Go. If it were another player then I’d be tempted to ignore it. But it’s not another player and they probably wouldn’t have done it anyway. Earlier in the week, I labelled Lee Cattermole guilty on the basis that he’d taken the 5th, there’s no chance of the same […]
…it’s losing with style. “If we’re going to lose, we’re going to lose in style. You have to be brave” What more could you want from a manager coming out of his first Premier League in charge? You might be ready with the accusations of naivety, no one gets anywhere in this division without a […]
By now, you’ll pretty much know it all. Latics battered Villa who never really turned up. The top six side looked rigid and limited in their play whilst the rookie manager’s style of play lived up to its promise. The home side really missed the players that moved on this summer whilst Latics fans were […]
I’m sticking to my theory that it’s better to leave your pre-season review until a couple of weeks in and no doubt I’ll be regaling you some time around the end of the month with my thoughts and feelings about how things might pan out. Of course, it’s cheating but I have the privilege of […]