The winning of last seasons FA Cup has propelled my local club Wigan Athletic into the world’s football conscience. Now the biggest sporting event, eat your heart out the Olympics but the World Cup in Brazil starts in a few short weeks and this year’s tournament will have representatives of WAFC taking centre stage. […]
“As a family, we couldn’t believe the pain and horror the families would get by receiving the news that their loved ones wouldn’t be coming home from a football match. How can anyone die watching the game they love? That isn’t right. That isn’t fair. What happened after wasn’t right or fair either. To have […]
It is that time of the year again and who will you vote for in the Wigan Athletic Player of the Season awards ? A high goal scoring forward is usually the frontrunner in polls like these but with nobody hitting the back of our opponents goal on a regular basis no one really spring […]
Wigan Athletics’ spirited defence of the F.A.Cup which has seen them defeat three premier league teams ended yesterday in the cruelest way possible when they went out on penalties after matching their more illustrious opponents stride for stride. Yes Arsenal played the smoother football and created more chances but for heart, effort and endeavour, […]
When Wigan Athletic won the FA Cup it really was a dream come true. Who could ever have imagined that they would be within close distance of making it come true again just eleven months later? Just like last year Latics had a difficult time disposing of a team a division below them in […]
Being ‘Man of the Match’ in an FA Cup Final can be hard to live up to. Callum McManaman knows that all too well. Just eleven months ago McManaman was the toast of the town as he led Gael Clichy and the Manchester City defence a merry dance at Wembley. He had not only […]
Wigan slumped to a rare home defeat as a much changed side fell victim to a severely deflected goal in their battle to avoid relegation from the championship. Uwe Rosler made eight changes from the starting line up against Leeds but if the fans were hoping that the changes would show players busting a […]
Given the sheer volume of fixtures Wigan Athletic have had to play over the past months it is no wonder that their form has been intermittent. There have been matches where they have looked full of energy, playing enterprising football, followed another a few days later where they would appear jaded and placing an over-reliance […]
A long range shot by Martyn Waghorn’s on his debut as a permanently contracted Wigan Athletic player was enough to deliver all three points to the home side but the performance served up collectively was poor against a physical Leeds side who succeeded in knocking the Latics off their game. Wigan made two changes to […]
A debut goal from Rob Kiernan following on from a Ramis header saw Latics gain a credible point against high flying Leicester City in a game which provided fine entertainment form both sides with the league leaders doing just enough to hang on to their long unbeten run. Wigan once again rang the changes […]