International breaks are a real pain aren’t they? Don’t get me wrong, I love watching England and I enjoy international football. I’m not one of those who would do away with the international calendar. I understand why it’s so integral to world football. But nonetheless when an international weekend comes along and inevitably ruins a […]
It comes to something when the most disappointing aspect of the opening month of the season was a draw against Wolves Under 21’s in the Pizza Cup and a subsequent penalty shoot out defeat. There’s no point spending time worrying about Tuesday, the real business of the evening came off the pitch and as promised […]
Football is most definitely back! Not content with a last minute winner against Rotherham earlier this month so Latics went two better at Charlton with late goals from Tendayi Dawrika and the returning James MCclean to seal victory over Charlton. A return of seven points from the first four fixtures. Especially when you consider who […]
Four points from the first three games, not a bad return considering we ended last season with five contracted players. Not bad either considering everything our club had to go through last season to even get to this point of starting the season. This seems to be forgotten by everyone else in League One at […]
525 days, 525 full days since Latics last played a competitive match. Despite what was developing throughout the world in March 2020, I’m not sure even the most imaginative amongst us would have predicted it would take nearly eighteen months before we could go and watch a league match involving Latics once again. It’s been […]
What a difference a year makes, a year ago this week Wigan Athletic were facing up to the most uncertain of futures. The fourth of August has been an eventful date in the history of Wigan Athletic in recent seasons. It was the opening day of the season in both 2018 and 2019 with strong […]
The times are a changing. I’m not going to dwell on Sunday’s non-event. If it wasn’t for the most baffling refereeing decision you will ever see Latics would have won Sunday’s match comfortably. Instead a defensive collapse after Curtis Tilt’s dismissal led to Swindon taking the spoils. But we start next season in League One, […]
Safety with a game to spare, what was all the fuss about? Saturday was a bizarre day, the last year of following our football club has been bizarre but Saturday was the most bizarre of the lot. With so much riding on the result, in normal times there would be a convoy of Latics fans […]
Last week I spoke about something being ‘so Wigan’, a chain of events being so unheard of that it could only involve Wigan. Imagine my horror as I checked the BBC Sport app on Tuesday night to see Rochdale 3-2 Wimbledon, the very same Wimbledon who couldn’t stop winning in recent weeks. I think I […]
So Wigan. We often talk about things that are just ‘so Wigan’, things that don’t happen to other clubs. Like your owner putting you in to administration after threatening to liquidate you a day after completing the takeover. All during a deadly pandemic. So Wigan. That trend of unique effects has continued as Wigan Athletic […]