Important point in the season? Pah!  Game where it all sinks in? Pah!  Now I’ll admit to writing this under the influence, but what if… … our team is better than we think it is.  After all we have the pace and the power and we’re quite tidy when we put our minds to it. […]

Tomorrow could turn out to be an important point in our season.  Newcastle are considered one of those sides that should be in and about the top 5.  In Shearer and Owen they have a top strike force and with the likes of Parker, Emre, Bowyer and Solano behind them they should have no problems […]

It’s catch up time again.  I’ve been having ‘technical problems’, between sorting them out, working every hour going blah, blah, yadda yadda…  I guess I’m not just not cut out for this Diary business. Thankfully it’s been an international week and there’s been little to talk about.  Congratulations to Ryan Taylor on his impressive debut […]

Latics 2 – 1 Bolton Wanderers Sunday 2nd October 2005 It’s 12:20 and I’m still in Orrell.  Those of you who recall my first foray into the world of published writing (what you don’t remember the ‘famous’ Cockney Latic article?  Well here it is for you delight and delectation.) will already be aware of my […]

Now you’re talking.  Last Saturday may have been the first of the 12 local Derbies we’ll play this season, but this one has got to be the most eagerly anticipated.  It’s been a good few years since the teams have locked horns enough time for Bolton to have put what at times seemed like an […]

So the ‘old firm’ are interested in Lee McCulloch?  I’m not sure what to make of it though.  If you look at the lad in isolation, as a striker who doesn’t get many goals or as a right footed left winger who doesn’t create much, then the £3million that they are reportedly ready to spend […]

There are always going to be exceptions to the “if you’ve earned the shirt, you keep it” ruling that Jewell insists that he works on.  Lee McCulloch, more lucky talisman than incisive left winger seems to be one, Jimmy Bullard another.  When a keeper is out injured you can almost guarantee that he’ll be back […]

Everton 0-1 Wigan Saturday 24th September 2005 How many of us are now reappraising our chances for the season?  Expectations of struggle may have, so far, failed to materialise but does that mean that the rest of the season will be plain sailing?  Look at the season so far and there’s plenty of evidence to […]

It’s a good job I don’t take too much notice of the media.  A quick scan around the offerings on Saturday’s game would have you believe that Everton are/were terrible and Latics, well, they turned up.  I’m not sure that many Everton fans noticed our part in their downfall either.  Unless you keep in mind […]

It’s always grand to hear our away crowd in full song.  The post goal celebration rendition of YAMS yesterday was am impressive backdrop to the radio commentary.  The stories I’m hearing this morning about choruses of You’ll Never Walk Alone starting up are less impressive.  Of course it was only a laugh, and designed to […]