A welcome (?) return for the feature that looks at the subjects we’ll be talking about in the lead up to the game. This week it’s off to the City of Manchester stadium where I doubt much time will be spent cogitating over the Commonwealth Games or the architecture. There’ll be plenty of back slapping […]
Man City 1-0 Latics Saturday 28th January 2006 Regardless of the context, (cup final place in the bag, a league place to consolidate and an already significant injury list added to by bruised and tired legs after an exhausting run of games, including two sets of extra time) Wigan Athletic are this morning being painted […]
A welcome (?) return for the feature that looks at the subjects we’ll be talking about in the lead up to the game. This week it’s off to the City of Manchester stadium where I doubt much time will be spent cogitating over the Commonwealth Games or the architecture. There’ll be plenty of back slapping […]
From the highlights of a Cup Semi final at Highbury it’s back to the slightly more humdrum matter of this fourth round FA cup trip to Manchester. It’s another new ground to tick of the list, but the fixture has some quite recent history. In reality this tie is just another game but Wiganers have […]
Arsenal 2-1 Latics AET Tuesday 24th January 2006 After the events of Elland Road and the Riverside, you really couldn’t expect another tie quite so dramatic, but then again… After all this is Wigan Athletic and whatever your thoughts on our season so far, we’ve hardly had a dull moment. On hindsight it was a […]
This is the first time that I’ve had more than a passing interest in the African Cup of Nations. It’s surely a sign of our progress that one of our ‘stars’ is featuring in the tournament, a sign of our attitude that our manger isn’t taking the usual line of bemoaning his loss. Henri Camara […]
Wigan Athletic today welcome their fourth signing of the January window as Spurs’ promising Swiss international, Reto Ziegler, joined on loan until the end of the season. This signing provides a double boost for the club as not only does it bring in a bona fide left sided midfielder, it allows Lee McCulloch to undergo […]
Middlesbrough 2-3 Latics Saturday 21st January 2006 David Thompson and Neil Mellor may not agree but Steve Maclaren is almost certainly spending his Sunday contemplating on the cruel nature of football. Not that Latics were lucky to win this neutral pleasing clash in the North East, their first half performance alone was enough to warrant […]
Arsene Wenger has done us the favour of naming his squad for the second leg of the League Cup final a day early. Unsurprisingly it has a little more of a first team flavour about it as Campbell, Lauren, Pires, Bergamp, Reyes and Henry get ready to join the fray. An obvious ploy to get […]
This game between two sides hardly in the best of league form is sure to be haunted by the spectre of another side that will be nowhere near the riverside on Saturday. The fixture, coming as it does, sandwiched between two ties against Arsenal, if not a must-win is definitely a must-perform for both sides. […]