Well, I got it wrong again. After writing off any possibility of Latics deciding their own destiny they returned from Villa Park not only with safety confirmed but with three points, enough to take them to the magical forty point mark, and a performance that, notwithstanding next week, could rank up there as the best […]
With the finish line in sight, it’s almost as if Latics’ own results don’t matter. I doubt I’d be saying that if we were playing Newcastle and Sunderland over the next two weeks, but instead we’ve got one of the form teams in the division and the team with poll position but plenty to do […]
You could almost hear the orgasm in Clive Tyldesley’s voice as he announced, without any sense of irony the biggest game ever between two English club sides, the ultimate vindication of the media fallacy that the Premier League is the biggest and best footballing arena in the whole wide universe. Yes, it’s great, but in reality […]
Latics 0-0 Reading Saturday 26th April 2008 Well, my head is fairly battered after that one. A game that was, at best, 75 minutes too long and a good chunk of mental arithmetic, that turned out to be wasted when I finally got around to checking the fixtures and realised that it was Fulham and […]
Whilst the January window may not have brought the shopping spree that many expected, this summer looks set to be an interesting time for both Latics fans and Dave Whelan’s accountant. The club posting an £8m loss isn’t the best omen for those hoping that we’ll finally see some squad strengthening, rather than rebuilding, but […]
Latics 1-1 Spurs Saturday 19th April 2008 This time two years ago, I wasn’t watching Latics, aided by a superb Bullard volley, beat Aston Villa as that fantastic first top flight season wound to a close. Despite my best efforts to convince Mrs Perm otherwise, it will be a couple of years yet before the […]
I’ve just sat down to throw together a half cocked preview of tonight’s game at Stamford Bridge and, to my dismay, the first phrase that came to mind was ‘this is another one of those games’. It should hardly come as a surprise to find myself thinking that way, and I wouldn’t be the only […]
Latics 2-0 Birmingham Saturday 5th April 2008 I’ve spent most of the last week trying to piece together a catch up of events over the last two months, but as the conclusion that it was leading to was that, after the Blackburn and Portsmouth games, nothing had changed, this weekend seems the right time to […]
You close your eyes for a, erm… seven weeks or so, and look what happens. The last time I wrote, Latics had just beaten West Ham but things were still more than a little ropey, certainly according to Robert Green anyway. In reality (and in hindsight) the worm had probably already started to turn and […]
Wigan Athletic and officialdom have always had their problems. Jump back to 1932 and Wigan Borough failing to fulfil their fixtures. Nothing to do with Wigan Athletic? Well it effectively stopped us getting into the league for 40 odd years. Draw Leeds United in the quarter finals of the FA Cup? Good for the club […]