Wigan Athletic 1964-65.Back row, Wilf Birkett (Trainer), Les Jackson (Chairman), Alan Halsall, Roy Wilkinson, Alf Craig, Ralph Gubbins, Derek Houghton, Derek Crompton, Frank Latham.Front Row: Les Campbell, Carl Davenport, Harry Lyon, Allan Brown (Player Manager), Walter Stanley.Thanks to WiganWorld for the photo. A couple of weeks ago at Blackpool with Latics a goal behind, […]
Never one’s to stay behind the trends, last night saw the first TNS foray into minute-by-minute match reporting. Well, if I’m honest, it wasn’t a foray into anything, my mate @tallkenny had made the choice to go and watch the consistently depressing Nick Cave over the increasingly depressing Latics and keeping him updated was more […]
Wigan secured a point against high flyers Queens Park Rangers last night at the DW Stadium with a performance high on endeavour and commitment but low on class and flair and with the exception of a header from McCann which hit the post, Wigan didn’t look like scoring in a game in which Rangers had […]
Marc Albrighton could be thrust into the crunch match with Queens Park Rangers at the DW Stadium tonight. The 23 year old has been signed from Aston Villa on what must be one of the shortest of loan periods – reported to be just 28 days. However, the winger has had injury problems and has […]
He was lauded as the best of Owen Coyle’s new signings. But if you were ask a room of Latics supporters which of the twelve new players brought in by Coyle has been the most disappointing – the name of Grant Holt would be the one which comes up most. What has happened to […]
A tired-looking Wigan Athletic rode the waves of Charlton pressure in the first half to come back with a better performance after the interval. Although it was a goalless draw both sides had opportunities to win the game. In the end a draw was a fair result. Owen Coyle lost Scott Carson injured […]
Wigan made the long trip to London for the Sunday derby of the Latics against Charlton with Owen Coyle once again rotating the squad with recalls for Perch, Rogne, McClean and McArthur with Chris McCann awarded another start following his good performance in midweek at home to Rubin Kazan in the Europa League. Coyle […]
I tell you what, I’m feeling right miserable with this football malarkey at the minute. Good performances against Watford, Maribor and Blackburn are currently looking like blots on the Coyle landscape after performances against Blackpool and Rubin Kazan that suggest that playing ping-pong and practising ways to “hit the front man early” really are the […]
Wigan Athletic go to Charlton tomorrow following four successive league defeats away from home, not having scored a goal in any of them. However, Latics come into the game following a fine performance, drawing 1-1 at home against a strong Rubin Kazan side in the Europa League. Charlton occupy 19th place but are unbeaten in […]
Wigan Athletic were denied a memorable victory against a strong Rubin Kazan side in the dying seconds of the match. Marc-Antoine Fortune’s close range shot had ‘goal’ written all over it but Russian goalkeeper Sergei Ryzhikov made an outstanding save to keep the scores level. Rubin would have counted themselves unlucky had Fortune’s shot gone […]