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Context gentlemen, please
Ahhh Wigan. I foolishly thought last months financial results may have provided some much needed context to a club still reeling from two financial disasters in as many years, clearly I was wrong. The (internet) fan base reverted to type on Monday evening as we were DUN WI Maloney and Danson would be seeing THI […]
Never Again!
The release of last week’s financial accounts made for sobering reading for all Wigan Athletic supporters. Never again can this club be allowed to reach the state it did and never again can we allow those that don’t have Wigan Athletic’s best interests at heart to use the club in the way it had been […]
Other Stuff
Wiggin Girls
Wiggin Girls ……… by T’ Pie Shop Boys. Sometimes when you’re in your shed, There’s a pie in your ‘and, it’s as heavy as lead Go on a diet, but tha’s just not able Too fat for chairs, can’t fit under tables, In a chippy, in a West Lancs Town Pudding Fish & Chips, there’s […]
Brut: not just an aftershave
With Saturday’s game against Sheffield Wednesday on the horizon, we’ve been turning our minds to things that would be worth going to Sheffield for, even if you didn’t want to pay £33 to get into a football match. Chris pointed us in the direction of one of Sheffield’s less expected landmarks and this article that […]
Blackpool calling
It’s New Year and that can only mean one thing, not a return to work not a set of un-assailable New Year resolutions but for me and over a thousand other people THE soul music event of the year. For the uninitiated let me set some context to this claim. Now in to a fourteenth […]
Dancing with Ghosts…
As you wake up with the fear from your work’s do and head towards the chaos of Mad Friday, Tony Topping reminds us that, sometimes, you do want to remember those Christmas nights out. Dancing With The Ghosts Of Wigan Casino, 1973 The cold December wind cut through the hole in the window and its […]
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Wigan win in the pre-season sunshine against Besiktas
A fine pre-season workout by all the available first team squad along with a couple of new young bloods saw Wigan defeat the Champions league opponents in the warm evening sunshine at the DW Stadium last night. Wigan took to the field resplendent in their new kit, a design which seems to have divided […]
Last gasp winner leaves Wigan drowning in a vale of tears
For the second week running, Wigan clawed back a two nil score line and for the second week running victory was sealed in injury time, unfortunately for the Latics and their raucous travelling support this time the victory went to the opposition as man mountain Ikpeazu bundled the ball home after a goal mouth scramble […]
Bobby Robson
Found this on a Scouse forum site, well worth a moment of your time. (Mental note on a piece of paper, must get his book to read!) I thought it worth typing out this passage from Bobby Robsons book for your reading pleasure, but first a bit of background. Robson tells us that […]
The Empty Seats play their first gig this Friday!
Do you know where The Verve played their first ever gig? Or what about the location where one of Wigan Athletic’s predecessors, Wigan United used to play way back in 1919? The answer in both cases is The Honeysuckle in Poolstock and this venue is again playing host to a seminal moment in Wigan’s history […]