Steve McMillan’s Latics career has been one spent in the shadows; the hotly tipped left back’s signing was almost missed due to Lee McCulloch’s record transfer fee. Much of his time since has been spent on the sidelines, either in the company of Alex Cribley or watching the rise of Leighton Baines. With McCulloch set […]
Latics 0-2 Portsmouth Saturday 20th October 2005 I’m not quite sure why I did it, but just before I left for the ground I checked on http://www.liveonsat.com/ to see which foreign channel the game was on. I should have taken more notice of the result. It was no surprise to see that, yet again, we […]
You can tell when things are looking desperate on the ticket front with Latics; they roll out the special offers. You might like to think that £15 a ticket was enough to draw the punters in, but no, Wiganers need more than that to get them off the couch. We’ve already seen the ‘ever popular’ […]
Manchester United 4-0 Latics Saturday 6th October 2007 I spent most of the last week telling people that this game didn’t matter, that there was no chance of Latics getting anything, and that the international break might as well have started a week early for us. I did believe it, but that was before Chris […]
So, you’ll be dead pleased to know that Paul Scharner is one appearance off his half century for the club. It’s good to see the Official website making more out of these milestones as they show us that Scharner now sits fifth in the appearances table for the club. I’m sure that I wasn’t the […]
Latics 0-1 Liverpool Saturday 29th September 2007 I’m never quite sure whether my lackadaisical approach to deadlines is a good thing or not. As far as match reports are concerned, it often gets to the stage where I wonder whether it’s worth it at all. By the time Wednesday comes around, I’ve forgotten the finer […]
Reading’s early season form may have lulled you into a false sense of expectancy but Latics have hardly been sparkling over recent weeks and were looking for a result here to get their season back on track. In realistic terms this was another game against a team who will be one of our rivals at […]
Latics travel to the Madjeski Stadium this weekend, on that back of a performance against Fulham that was hardly inspiring, but at least provided an improvement on similar games last season. It leaves Chris Hutchings with plenty of room for improvement but still with something to build on. Not that he’s got many bricks. The […]
Latics 1-1 Fulham Saturday, 15th September 2007 However you take your media, you’ll have gathered that the most important part of Saturday’s game was the injury to Emile Heskey. Excusable, I suppose, if you’re tucked away in your Southern home with only Monday’s commute on the M25 and the next England get together to worry […]
Latics res. 0-3 Liverpool res. Wednesday 19th September 2007 The last time I remember watching the reserves, I was still in full time education and Phil Neale was in the Bolton side. I’d gone because a) it was Bolton, b) I fancied seeing what the view was like from the Phoenix Stand and c) I’d […]