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It’s happened again
How do you begin to describe a night like Tuesday I’ve not really got the words, there have been some fantastic high points this season – undoubtedly some low points as well. But they would be expected in a season where we started on minus eight points and are having to re-build the club from […]
Under the lights
Has anybody got any fingernails left after Saturday? Talk about nervy endings to a match. Saturday was a really important result, for one Shrewsbury are close to us in the table and secondly it was a return to winning ways after two disappointing defeats against both Exeter and Oxford. Latics looked in control against Shrewsbury […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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A blunt strike force
When the lineup was announced prior to the Leeds match on Saturday it was a sadly depressing moment. The mood had been positive and people had started to “Believe” again. But a look at the team sheet was enough to send many of us into despair. How can you keep faith in a […]
Post match reaction – Reading (A)
‘It’s a brand new group over the last three weeks. It closes the gap. There are a lot of points to play for. It’s about personality and character and we’re beginning to show that”. So said Malky Mackay after his team of scrappers had thrown him a lifeline, with the reemergence of Dave Whelan breathing […]
Twenty’s Plenty
It was no coincidence nor a surprise that Wigan Athletic fans snapped up tickets in their droves for this weekend’s Macclesfield cup tie and that they were all sold out in a few hours. Let’s be honest, even at double the price there still would have been a good take up given the penchant for […]
A matter of timing
Who should we blame this time? Is it the player’s fault? His agent’s? The club’s? Whilst Chimbonda’s transfer request was, at best, ill timed it was hardly unexpected. The way this has gone down has done no one any favours. At a time when he should have been taking a moment’s reflection on the season’s […]