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 […]
I’ve been holding my tongue recently, specifically upon seeing comments online in recent games stating that Wigan Athletic have been lucky. Lucky? Us, LUCKY? You are joking aren’t you!! May I remind you that we were 13th in the Championship, when our owner tried to liquidate us. We were then relegated on the last day of […]
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 […]
How great a feeling is it not to spend every day wondering whether or not your football club will survive? The pain of the last nine months won’t disappear in a hurry but the relief of the last week has been palatable, we’ve got to hold on to this feeling and try to harness that […]
Nine months after the nightmare began, when the sun came out on the hottest day of the year and at 20:21 the nightmare finally ended. The EFL the body that had done so little to prevent the nightmare confirmed that Wigan Athletic were no longer in administration. Phoenix 2021 the ownership body set up by […]
Saturday definitely had the feeling of after the Lord Mayor’s Show for me. The excitement of three matches unbeaten and a takeover virtually completed gave way to that familiar feeling of Latics being just not quite good enough. Saturday’s match with Accrington started in the finest possible way. A Callum Lang goal within the opening […]
Is the nightmare nearly at an end? Is there light at the end of the tunnel? Will there be sunshine when skies are grey? It feels too good to be true, we’ve been burnt too many times in the last year – it feels like it still can’t be real. But real it is and […]
What a difference a week makes, I’ve written that what feels like a million times this season. But the difference between this week and last week has been clear. Last week was tough for the Wigan Athletic faithful. In a year where the kicks have kept on coming last week felt one of the worst […]
Let me tell you what I can’t get my head round. Our young players. We simply haven’t brought a single bad egg through the academy. I’m not talking about ability here, I am talking about the fact that they are almost all, to a (young) man, superb human beings. They are a nice bunch of […]