Latics’s first signings of the summer look to have added to the frustration of fans new and old, as none of them are players and an old ‘friend’ returns. John Benson, Mark Seagraves and Neil Fitzhenry all join the backroom team in some capacity although stories that Benson is to be the youth team feng […]
So silly season is fully underway and the press are doing a good job of painting Paul Jewell as a man in the throws of panic switching from one unsuccessful transfer target to the next. Today’s choice is Emile Heskey, the oft-maligned Birmingham City front man being tipped to be the subject of a £3m […]
Stories coming out of Merseyside this morning are suggesting that Everton are the third club to have a bid accepted for Crystal Palace striker Andy Johnson. The suggestion is that Everton’s bid meets the £8.5 million bid that Latics and Bolton made, but has more similarity to the Bolton deal as the money will not […]
We’re certainly taking a step up in the transfer market this season market. Last year it was a mixture of unknowns, lower division players and pie in the sky attempts. We now seem to be pitching at players that you’ve heard of and that will probably improve the team. The latest example of that is […]
Autumn 1960, Springfield Park (in the pouring rain). Wigan Athletic (mid-table) 0, Nelson (league leaders) 0, not a bad result I suppose but otherwise a fairly mundane occasion. Wrong – not mundane for me anyway. I’d been to a few Latics games during the previous couple of years with my Dad and Grandad but this […]
1st November 2003, a sunny Saturday lunchtime, in the posh seats and a full day and night’s drinking ahead. It was one of those “second stag dos”, you know the sort of thing organised for those cheapskates and not quite friends who didn’t go away with you. A select few at the game, making our […]
What’s your take on Jimmy Bullard? Was he the laugh a minute ball of energy, the beating heart of the team that made easy work of rising from the 3rd flight to the top level? Or was he the limited player who had started to believe the hype (or his agent) and was showing more […]
Who should we blame this time? Is it the player’s fault? His agent’s? The club’s? Whilst Chimbonda’s transfer request was, at best, ill timed it was hardly unexpected. The way this has gone down has done no one any favours. At a time when he should have been taking a moment’s reflection on the season’s […]
What has arguably been the most successful season the Latics have ever had is going to end with a party, yet another where you get the impression that everyone would much prefer us not to turn up. Then again this is nearly as important a game for us as it is for Arsenal, not least […]
Like so many of our recent games, this one is being billed as the biggest one in the club’s history. Promotion to the Premier League means that much for some people. There remains a sneaky feeling that there might be at least two more ‘biggest games’ yet to come. Whatever the reality it’s certainly a […]