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Back to square one
Where do we go from here? Quite literally what do we do now? So after fourteen weeks, one disqualification and numerous tweaked plans the Spanish takeover of Wigan Athletic fell at the final hurdle. Despite Begbies Traynor telling us that ‘no problems were envisaged’ and the deal would originally be ‘completed in two to three […]

Nightmare before Christmas coming to an end?
Is this it? Is the nightmare going to come to an end? In this horrific years of years will Wigan Athletic supporters be bestowed with an early Christmas present? As always over the last eleven weeks – who knows? It’s now over two weeks since Jose Miguel Garrido Cristo was disqualified by the EFL and […]
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A very Soulful Christmas
In a Soulful Christmas Mood The Christmas song has been given a bad press in recent years, no doubt partly influenced by Simon Cowell and his legacy of X-Factor one week wonders that hijacked the Christmas number one for over a decade. Add in to that the various novelty Christmas songs and generic pop songs […]

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 […]

A pathetic shopping spree
If you move in certain Twitter circles then you’ll have come across The Pathetic Casuals. Once they were young lads and lasses, touring the country in following the team they love, dressed up the nines and making sure they were seen and heard. Now, as age, parenthood, mortgages and world weariness catches up with them, […]
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The best of Nick Powell [video]
Now the dust has settled on an eventful season for Wigan Athletic we can take the opportunity to look back on some of its highlights. Despite not appearing in those crucial games at the end of the season, Nick Powell certainly left us lots of memories. The video below is kindly shared with us by […]

The Recipe for Success
There is a discussion which keeps doing the rounds this year involving comparisons to the 2002/03 season, the year when we really did “smash it”. Even though it’s an inevitable thing to bring up, I must admit I cringe a little bit every time I read it. Mainly because many football clubs do not encounter […]

King Landz at the JJB, but Denny is out
On a day that will do nothing to dissuade the persistent one in, one out theorists Steve Bruce has allowed Denny Landzaat to leave the club and signed Marlon King. The moves will probably stop us being linked with any more strikers, but open us up to a deluge of ‘bolstering midfield’ rumours over the […]

Window shopping
Yesterday’s transfer deadline day provided little in the way of respite for Latics fans. No announcements, no rumours, no random sightings not even a sniff of a deal. The only news all day was the early story that (surprise, surprise) Papa Diop had decided to stay in London and fight for his place at Fulham. […]