If this is what passes for not doing business in the Bruce household then I’d hate to see the credit card bills after Janet has finished in the January sales. Of course being Latics manager doesn’t offer the man of the house quite so many privileges, but given that he started the new year with […]

Villa 0-0 LaticsSaturday 31st January 2009Let’s face it, Villa are a pretty good side this year. Ok so their top 4 aspirations depend as much on whether Arsenal get their backsides in gear as they do Martin O’Neil’s ability to get the best out of Emile Heskey, but they’re easy favourites to win ‘the rest […]

Latics 1-1 LiverpoolWednesday 28th January 2009Is the day where we’ll finally beat one of the big four any closer after this one? Well, I’m not going to pretend that this was as good as the one at Old Trafford a week ago, but in some ways that makes this a more satisfying performance. The result […]

Latics 1-0 SpursSunday 11th January 2009 I’m not going to pretend that the last, nearly, two months haven’t happened, the catch up articles are on the way, it’s just that, beset with technical issues as I have, it’s sometimes better to focus on those things closest to home and fresher in the mind. My brain […]

Thanks to United’s trip to the Far East, December didn’t look the hardest of months, but before we could get into the potential point-fest there was a return to North London to get out of the way. Unsurprisingly this one was a different kettle of jellied eels than we got a month before. It’s always […]

I’ve been busy, that’s the be all and end all of the matter. Sometimes things have to give, and just like a hundred times before it’s the website that takes the hit. Well, I’m back, for today at least, and there’s a fair bit of catching up to do. I suppose the best place to […]

Arsenal 3-0 LaticsTuesday 11th November 2008 Is there only me that reckons there’s something bordering on indecent in how giddy the press got over this game?  I don’t remember the League Cup Final getting this much attention three years back, let alone the game against Arsenal, and why?  Because i) the French Dario Gradi sent […]

Latics 0-0 StokeSaturday 8th November 2008 I’m not about to jump on the ‘Stoke are ugly but it works’ bandwagon that seems to be doing the circuit at the moment, but you have to some credit to any side that is prepared to work so hard for each other and get their bodies in front […]

Pompey 1-2 LaticsSaturday 1st November 2008As Jonathan Ross has recently found out, you should never underestimate the ability of the media to twist things to suit their own narrow minded agendas.  Ross, through his sadly lacking attempts at comedy, stumbled into the Mail’s anti-Beeb (or anti-auntie) crusade and their quest to crush all things Guardian […]

Fulham 2-0 LaticsWednesday 29th October 2008 How do you want to play this?  Would you lead with “devastating loss sees relegation rivals leapfrog Latics”?  Or maybe you’d prefer, “fourth defeat on bounce has Bruce’s men reeling”?  Then again, the best bet might be an all encompassing “repent all ye who enter here, the end of […]