Having come through a run of games where his squad’s shortcomings have been laid bare for all to see, Paul Jewell is expected to be busy during the January transfer window.  If tales are to believed, the manager’s shopping has started early with moves for two players being strongly touted in the press.

After last Wednesday’s performance against Arsenal, you wouldn’t have thought that Latics were capable of producing another game containing two halves of such different energy, commitment and skill that you’d swear that they were played by different sides, but here it was.  Throughout the first forty-five minutes you’d have been excused for thinking that a […]

Indifferent form, picking up wins where we can, upsetting the odds occasionally whilst getting beat by teams that we should be doing better against.  Keeping one eye on the top six but being more concerned about avoiding relegation.  Worrying about losing our best players and the clubs inability in the transfer market.  Watching good players […]

It’s Christmas, everyone is drinking too much and the paranoia and conspiracy theories are kicking in.  In the Mourinho spirit, I was all ready to apologise to Paul Jewell after my criticism of him subbing Henri Camara at half time last week.  More fool me eh?  After a quick scoot around the Message Boards I […]

In the return of our version of the ubiquitous ‘list of stuff’ feature, Things That Make You Go mmm… looks at the fixture that welcomed a good proportion of our current fanbase into the fold.  Chelsea come into town on Saturday and whilst the game might not carry the same romance that it did last […]

I finished the Arsenal report with a glib line about saving performances like that one for games like Sheffield United.  As it was it was almost poetic in its tragedy as in the very next game Latics turn out their single most abject performance since joining this merry band of robbers thieves and vagabonds that […]

I had to check twice when I saw the crowd for the Arsenal game, even after satisfying myself that it did start with 15 I had to check the video before I believed it.  All I can say in my defence was the action was fairly engrossing and pretty much every seat around me was […]

Being such a clever bloke the irony will not have been lost on Arsene Wenger.  After a few days where if and his players had all but compared us to one of John Beck’s masterpieces, the long ball over the top proved the only way that Arsenal could break down a side that for long […]

If anyone knows the formula for closing games down when you go in front, away from home, could they please forward answers on a postcard to Paul Jewell, c/o Wigan Athletic Football Club, Christopher Park, Wigan?  First prize is the golden chalice of a victory against one of last season’s top five.

The last nil all draw in the league came in the promotion season at home to Burnley, it was the sort of game that the phrase bore draw was made for.  This one may not have been a thriller but it was far from boring.  Jewell had it down as the best we’ve played this […]