First up a bit of a lecture. I’ll start off with the young lads and ‘Johnny come latelies’, you might be part of, potentially, the club’s greatest period but you need to remember that some of us have been here a lot longer than you. For some of us it’s a family thing and for […]
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 […]