As long as he stays at the club we’re going to have to get use to Jewell being linked with jobs at supposed bigger clubs, but Man City – it’s never going to sit well. The guardian this morning put Jewell on their short list and had their board examining his ‘credentials’. Thankfully he’s not […]

At the (at least) third time of asking we seem to have got our man. Both Latics and Southampton have announced a loan deal for Brett Ormerod. It seems that the deal will initially be for a month, but PJ is already talking about it becoming a permanent one. Omerod is definately a Jewell player […]

It’s a bit late for a mid term report so I’ll disguise this run through the first team squad as a look at who’s going to play their part, and how, in the most important run in the club has for a while (if not for ever). Given that we are top of the league […]

Brighton HA 2 – 4 Wigan Athletic Tuesday 15th March 2005 From one extreme to the other – Saturday’s game might have been as dull as a night spent discussing peas with John Major but the same can’t be said of this game. On a night that the fixture computer created for masochists and 92 […]

Wigan Athletic 2 – 0 Millwall 12th March 2005 I started this match off slagging my mate for choosing to spend the afternoon drinking in the lakes whilst I dragged myself of my sick bed to watch the latest instalment in the promotion bandwagon. I ended up thinking that Ambleside wasn’t far enough away. Dull […]

That’s what it’s all about, 17000 people, plenty of noise and ickle old Wigan battering Big, Bad, “champions of Europe”, Leeds into submission. what was already building up to be a decent occasion at the JJB was given the extra edge by Preston’s draw with Ipswich the night before.  A win and we’d be back […]

Most fans will only remember Cookie from his brief return to the club, on loan from Burnley the season before last. He didn’t really impress second time around but as a youngster he was the first player I remember suffering from what I now call the Peter Kennedy effect. I don’t know what it was, […]

I missed it but, apparently the BBC is running a vote for each club to select nominees for their “cult hero”.  As I said I missed the nominating and the rules, but I have to assume that current players are excluded and that they’re only looking for league players.  Without dwelling too much on the […]