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Looking up
It’s been a strange old week. It started full of optimism after a very strong performance against Barnsley in the EFL Cup the previous Saturday that should have never ended in defeat. Being bridged in the middle with an awful first half performance against Cambridge but a fightback of sorts. Before a win in the […]
It’s never dull is it?
It’s never dull is it (c) Understatement of the century that particular Wigan Athletic phrase. Another twenty four hours, another episode of upheaval, another period of instability. We should be used to them by now, but each time this happens the more damaging the feeling among the fanbase. So let’s recap […]
Other Stuff
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, […]
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 […]
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Wigan Play off train derailed by Blackpool
Wigan’s final home game of the season saw them troop off with their tails between their legs as a Blackpool side short on quality but high on commitment embarrassed their promotion chasing hosts by defeating them two nil. Rosler opted to revert to the side that was so dominant against Reading on Good Friday but […]
Quick Wigan Athletic vs Newcastle United Preview
So 3 to go, the DW’s turn to host Newcastle United, a team who we recently did an article on about their chance of making the Champions League. Like recent matches this match pitches Wigan with a team in the top 6 of the Premier League, other than Chelsea and a Linesman sponsored by Specsaver, […]
Time for change or is it ?
Just over four years ago a Wigan Athletic team that was to finish in 11th place in the Premier League was gradually dismantled. The books were not being balanced, so the prized assets were cashed in and the wage bill slashed. In the January transfer window Wilson Palacios left for Tottenham and Emile Heskey for Aston […]
Wigan grind out much needed victory
It was a case of job done at the DW stadium yesterday in the late summer sunshine as a Wigan Athletic side seeking its first win of the season overcame early nerves to seal what in the end was a comfortable win against a team which showed that it had been put together over the […]