A bad start to the season is not uncommon for Wigan Athletic. The beginning of the 2011-12 season was no exception. A 3-1 home loss to Wolves in early November was their eighth consecutive defeat and Roberto Martinez clearly had to look at changing something. The changes he made took some time to take effect, […]
Match Report by Wildheart New Era Starts for Wigan, same as the old one as Armstrong double seals the win Latics made the trip done the M6 with new optimism and virtually a new squad accompanied by a large travelling support all enthused about the prospects of a league campaign much improved from last season’s […]
Well, the waiting is over and pretty soon the games will be coming at us thick and fast. I’d love to tell you that I am anticipating this season much more than the last few years but the truth is I’m not. Like many of us, I have high expectations every year and for the […]
Ah, yes that time honoured retort. Usually opined by those simply minded buffoons who seem to be misguided into thinking “trophies” equal “history”. Funnily enough we have a lot of those in our town seeing as we have one sporting team who hoovers up trophies for fun in their narrow gene pool given the competition […]
It seems wholly appropriate, after a season of barely writing about football, that I take up a couple of pages of this summer special talking about football. I was supposed to be having a summer off the “beautiful’ game but I had to get back on the writing horse somehow so, like a bowler returning […]
The following is the Editorial for the 48 page Summer Mudhutter which is available to download FREE as a PDF here: Mudhutter Summer Special EDITORIAL Welcome to the Mudhuts Summer Special and a special hello to those of you reading this for the first time. Too tight to pay for a printed copy are we? […]
My aim as I set off on the Scottish leg of Latics’ preseason tour was to produce two mach reports, one per game very much in the mould of my normal match reports. However as the games unfolded with multiple changes, loanees and trialists, it became apparent that a road trip blog would probably reflect […]
What an enjoyable night it was at Firhill. The pleasant and friendly atmosphere at the stadium was lifted even further by a bright performance from a young Latics team. They played not only with organisation and enterprise, but with no mean level of skill. The last time I went to watch a football match in […]
Wigan Athletic have announced the signing of 24 year old central striker Will Grigg from Brentford. The 5 ft 11 in tall Grigg was born in Solihull and progressed through the Birmingham City youth system. At the age of 17 he joined Walsall where he was to spend five seasons. scoring 27 goals in 99 […]
“He wants us to train hard and well in order to be ready to take that onto the pitch in matches. Clubs I’ve been at before haven’t got the footballs out so quickly and there has been lots of running but I’ve enjoyed the balance this year and it’s been really beneficial because you get […]