Latics fans have always had mixed opinions of our current chairman. In one corner there’s the fans who look at what he’s put into the club and feel he can do no wrong, in the other there’s those who, for whatever reason, wait for him to slip up so that they can lay into him. […]
Latics 1-2 Man Utd Monday 6th March 2006 If luck is one of those things that balances itself over the season then Latics have either had or are due a massive slice of it. The headline over this result is that nobody deserved what they got or indeed how they got it. After two lukewarm […]
It’s hard to work out what exactly will give us a good result tonight. Obviously a win, or even a draw, would fall into that category, but after 2 consecutive 4-0 drubbings those two outcomes may be setting our sights too high. As with all these games, against the top few sides, it’s more a […]
Saturday 26th Feb 2006 – 22:25 “I think I’ve hit the wall again. Earlier in the season I really struggled to come around to how well the season was going, but after a bit of acclimatisation and a couple of defeats things started to look a bit more reasonable. Even when the momentum was at […]
Josip Skoko and Emerson Thome left the club today, and it is rumoured that Damian Francis could have been close behind them. Meanwhile defeat for Senegal means that Henri Camera could be back in the country by Friday. Skoko has popped off to Stoke in a move surely designed to boost his chances of making […]
Man United 4-0 Latics Sunday 26th February 2006 To be honest it’s probably too early to work out how best to feel about this game. Expectations were never that high but after a performance that could best be described as disappointing, you would be excused for wondering if that bitter aftertaste had nothing to do […]
A busy week at the JJB? It may well have been, but as we have come accustomed there’s been little in the way of news coming out of the club. There’s no doubting that the real story of the week is the extra days off Henri Camara managed to pick up by not turning up […]
Spurs 2- 2 Latics Sunday 19th February 2006 A impressive performance and a brace of nicely taken goals from Andreas Johansson were not enough to win this game, but the Swede will be hoping it was enough to give Paul Jewell a selection headache for next week’s League Cup final. The makeshift forward’s second and […]
The consensus this season seems to be that Spurs are a club reborn. Previously considered one of the ‘Big 5’ they had spent a considerable period in the doldrums under a series of either staid (Goss) or over enthusiastic (Ardilles) managers. However the affable Dutchman Martin Jol seems to have achieved something that no one […]
Latics 0-1 Liverpool Saturday 11th February 2006 The headlines for this one will no doubt concentrate on that unused plane ticket, but Henri Camara wasn’t the only player who didn’t turn up yesterday. The game was rumoured to be between the European Champions and the Premier League’s fairytale team, but what we got were two […]