Latics 0 -4 Villa Sunday 26th October 2008 Aren’t football fans great?  All it takes is a solid thumping from the alleged ‘next best team’ in the division and “oh, my god, we’re all doomed!” has replaced “we didn’t deserve that result” as the phrase de jour on the Latics wide web.  Not that it’s […]

Liverpool 3-2 Latics Saturday 18th October 2008 It’s somebody else’s turn to apologise, this week; I’m just not certain whose it is.  According to Rafa Benitez, there’s nothing to apologise for, his team were the better one, they were never in trouble and the sending off didn’t change things, la la la la [fingers in […]

This week’s excuse?  Well, this result was obviously too gut wrenching for me to even think about it until I was 100% certain I was on emotionally solid ground again (ok – solid is perhaps too strong a term, but you get my gist).  Seriously though, this was one of those games that make it […]

Bang up to date, as always, but my excuse is this that is about the fourth time of asking for this match report. In the main that’s because of my terminal laziness, but on top of that, I’ve found myself hampered by a certain amount of frustration at both a lack of insight from Sky’s […]

It’s going to be difficult, but I’m going to try writing this match preview without slipping in any sort of cynicism about City’s situation. As strange as it might be that a club who, not that long ago, did us out of a chance of promotion to the second flight are now able to spend […]

Spurs 0-0 LaticsSunday 21st September 2008Just incase you missed it, Spurs needed to win this game to stop themselves having their worse start to a season since Jeff Stelling invented football one Saturday in 1992. Perhaps more interesting is the fact that if Spurs managed to get their result then Steve Bruce would have overseen […]

{mosimage}So, the season has been up and running for over a month and, strangely, most top flight clubs have managed to squeeze in four league games in-between the shabby internationals, pointless (but potentially fruitful) trips to Europe and general silliness that accompanies the start of any season these days. There may have been a fair […]

I’m guessing that it’s got something to do with the European Championships taking up most of the media and players’ attention for the first part of the summer, but silly season hasn’t really got going as far as Latics are concerned. Links to a league of nations of strikers aside, there appears to have been […]

{mosimage}We’ve been here before, and in a summer where poaching and tapping up have enjoyed more than their fair share of discussion it could only be a matter of time before the spotlight turned on Latics and their shopping at the St Andrews superstore.  Only it’s not the signings of Palacios, Kapo and De Ridder […]

… feel the quality. I think I’ve written before about the difficulties that clubs like Latics face when trying to achieve that poisoned chalice that is supposedly essential to get anywhere in football these days, strength in depth.  Not only do they have the financial problems of balancing the wage bill, but there’s another set […]