IN MY EYES HE DID ——————- I am sitting here watching the BBC tribute programme on Saturday night for the man that was Sir Bobby Robson and it nearly had me in tears so much I felt I had to write this blog. In my youth which seems so long ago I grew to admire […]
Wigan Athletic’s new orange away kit seems to have split opinions amongst the club’s fanbase, but at least the new ‘Tangerine Dream’, as I like to call it, has been Christened with a stomping 4-1 victory over Preston. There now follows a very cheesy lineup of songs which will no doubt be heard blasting out […]
Sexy Football it really is Sexy Football———————————————— Hi again Had a great time on tuesday at Deepdale on a wet Summers night the Latics knocked the Northenders into tomorrow with a display of Sexy football thats never been seen before in a Wigan kit. Me and my family arrived at the ground 15mins before ko […]
The purpose of this article is threefold. Firstly, to try and identify the cyclist in the photographs who are all believed to have competed at Springfield Park in the early 1900’s. So if anyone out there can assist in naming any of them I would be very grateful if you would let me know. […]
Indeed, ’tis true. Take a gander at the website of any moderately successful football club and you ‘ll find a whole plethora of other naff items for sale, ranging from the standard mugs and window stickers to the more unusual team branded undercrackers and even flavoured condoms. Probably. When Uncle Dave decided to cut the […]
Next month brings the start of my 50th season as a Laticsmon – let me indulge myself and select a team of my favourite players – not the best players, but ones that have stuck in my Latics subconcious all these years. First, I’ll just twang my braces and put my toes in my cosiest pair […]
There’s a temptation to sneer at the signing of James McCarthy. He may be the hottest prospect in Scottish football; he’s only 18 and being anything in Scottish football doesn’t really equate to anything anywhere else. But there’s another take on this, and the targeting of the likes of Victor Moses, Roman Golobart and Curtis […]
Do you feel pleased with yourselves? Well you should do, because, as far as supporting Latics goes, no victory is too small and when an initiative that started in the fanbase with and was whole heartedly backed by fans achieves something then it’s jolly well time to jump up and down and make it known. And […]
It has been ‘Latics’ Home on the Telly’ for many years, but from January 2010, it shall be no more. 517, the number so embedded in the brain of many a Wigan fan, shall soon be forgotten like a bad season or ill-informed Dave Whelan rant, consigned to the bin of history as but a […]
Trotting When Springfield Park was built in 1897 the architect ‘s plans show it had a trotting track skirting its perimeter. As well as the football pitch it was also used by the local athletics club as it also had a concrete cycle track and a half mile running track. In its early years Springfield […]