The Premiership really is a funny old league. A few sides apart, no one seems to have the recipe for continued ‘success’. Whether success means, challenging for Europe, mid-table mediocrity or avoiding relegation it’s hard enough to keep it going over the course of 38 games, let alone for the season after as well.
With Bolton on the rebound from a thrashing from United and Latics still fighting to establish their season this was never going to be a classic. As it turned out, it wasn’t even a game for the die-hard. Whether the few who made the trip paid the £36 out of habit or nostalgia is anyone’s […]
Fulham 0-1 Latics Saturday 28th October 2006 Last season, both the games between these sides went the wrong way. Fulham had the better of their defeat at the JJB whilst Steed Malbranque’s goal at Craven Cottage cruelly snatched the points away from a Latics side that had dominated the game. The only injustice yesterday was […]
With the combination of bad form and bad temper that has beset the Anfield goalkeeping fraternity over recent weeks you must have started to wonder what would happen with Chris Kirkland. Here is a keeper on top of his game, officially a Liverpool player and only a recall clause away from being whisked off back […]
The doctor is about to cut a hole in your neck and root around in there for a few minutes whilst he tries to clean out a cyst. The nurse warns you it’s going to hurt like hell and offers you the choice of a general or local aesthetic. Having a general means that you’ll […]
Whilst the low turn outs against Watford and Reading were no surprise to anyone, the attendances for the visits of the two Manchester clubs must have come as a shock to the system. For the club that is, anyone who knows more than two Latics fans will know someone who has taken the “I’m not […]
He was only being honest, what young Premier League regular wouldn’t harbour hopes of an international call up. With Ashley Cole banned there’s an opening at left back, and Baines’ form over the last two years warrants a look. That’s it, nothing more, nothing less. So how do we get from he wants to/should […]
Latics 4-0 Manchester City Saturday 21st October 2006 You’d be excused for believing that Latics didn’t show up for the game yesterday, that City merely came to the JJB, flapped about a bit and, just to really upset the travelling faithful, put 4 goals in their own net. However understandable City’s failure being a bigger […]
Latics 1-2 Manchester United Saturday 14th October 2006 For the first 15 minutes of this game Paul Jewell must have been pleased. His side looked like they finally understood what he’d been trying to tell them for the last 3 months. They pushed and pressured United in every part of the pitch, were direct without […]
After a staccato first couple of months, Saturday presents the first real chance for Latics’ new team to start to build some momentum. The six league games that Latics have featured in thus far are just the appetiser as they are followed by more than twice as many between now and the turn of the […]