A brace from on loan Nicky Maynard and a late late strike from Marc-Antoine Fortune saw Wigan burst back into form in fine style from Saturday’s disappointing defeat at Huddersfield and in doing so inflicting the first defeat in 2014 on a resurgent Sheffield Wednesday side. Tuesday’s game was a re-arranged match following an […]
He wrote his name into history with a brilliant last-minute header that won the FA Cup. If you were in a room full of football fans from all over the world and asked them to name a Wigan Athletic player, you can guess whose name would be most likely to come up. That would […]
What a difference a couple of months makes. Whereas one or two social commentators have opined that we seem no better off under Rosler than we were Coyle, the facts tell a very different story.
In mid-December a Wigan Athletic team in transition traveled to Hillsborough to play Sheffield Wednesday. Uwe Rosler had just won his opening Championship match, with a tight 3-2 win over Bolton, following an unfortunate dismissal from the Europa League at Maribor. I noted in my match preview of the time that “..not only will it […]
Mark the kitchen calendar, put into the diary, either hardback or onto your phone Friday March 28th The venue … Brocstedes Park The event . . . Ashton Athletic vs Wigan Athletic Past Players XI More news about this grand event will follow as soon as it arrives at the TNS […]
A poor performance on a blustery afternoon in Yorkshire saw Wigan continue their poor away form (no goals in the last three away matches) and whilst the conditions should be a factor to be taken in mitigation the palpable lack of quality shown made for uneasy watching by the large Wigan travelling contingent. Wigan continued […]
Another defeat to a mediocre team, say the cynics. They say that Latics don’t really want promotion this year – they are not ready. Give it another year and Rosler will have his own players playing in the style he seeks. Better to build up a nucleus of players who can serve us for years […]
Jordi Gomez is a footballer whose playing style can drive people to the extremes of both ecstasy and despair. Never before has a Wigan Athletic player polarized public opinion in the way he does. Following his sumptuous free kick against Charlton his name has been bandied about the social media and fan forums. That last […]
“He should have scored.” “He should have done better.” How many times have we heard comments like that coming from our television football match commentaries? Typically it is the ‘expert’ who makes the comment, an ex-player who through his prior experience is assumed to have a grasp of the tactical and analytical side of […]
If Sky Sports decided to re-write Aesop’s Fables, I suspect one of the moral lessons would involve a football team that travels away from home, scores an early goal and then spends 85 minutes with the bus well and truly parked only to come unstuck right at the end. So you’ll have to forgive me […]